MTV's music focus too little, too late
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LOS ANGELES  - With an emphasis on the visual over the audio, MTV from its inception has never been "about the music." But after seeing interest in its signature trophy show wane in recent years, the network put the spotlight where it belongs for a music awards show: on the concert stage.
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MTV -- whose videos killed the radio star -- knows a threat when it sees one. To keep people from abandoning TV for video games, it's making music videos with popular game characters strutting their stuff to the latest tracks. By Daniel Terdiman.
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By Geraldine Fabrikant  MTV Networks plans to dismiss 250 people, or 5.5 percent of its staff of 4,500, the network's chief executive, Judy McGrath, told employees in an e-mail message.
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Pop culture oddsmakers might have trouble figuring out who faces a tougher road on the comeback trail: Britney Spears or the television giant that helped vault her to stardom, MTV.
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A simple, "pay what you like" offering breaks all the rules and helps set the stage for the splintered future of the music biz. Bands need to treat marketing and management decisions as a valid part of the creative process. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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When MTV kicked off the annual Video Music Awards in 1984, they were seen as a kind of anti-Grammys, almost a spoof on the self-serious awards show format.
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Last nightâs MTV Video Music Awards was tame by MTV standards. There were no Britney and Madonna make-out sessions, no wardrobe malfunctions and no real surprises.
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The music video business, long synonymous with MTV and more recently identified online with Yahoo Launch and AOL, is about to get even more competitive thanks to cable and Internet convergence.
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In a nod to the ever-evolving world of  Web 2.0, MTV is turning to a new source for cutting-edge music  videos -- fans.
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The music industry is using alternative routes to get new music heard, such as music blogs and 'viral marketing.'
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MIAMI - The MTV Video Music Awards show on Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style, and a few musical surprises, but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows. There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions...
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MTV squeezed in more performances during its annual Video Music Awards this year by cutting the performers down to size.
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Ever wish you could traverse 42 years of pop music history in 37 minutes? R. Luke DuBois' new CD employs "time lapse phonography" to reduce hit songs to a string of tiny, amorphous sound clips that highlight big shifts in musical taste. By Alexander Gelfand.
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In the history of music industry dust-ups -- and there have been plenty -- the current Michael Jackson/Eminem flap rates pretty low.
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In the past, the MTV Video Music Awards were all about controversy and spectacle. Take last year when the show opened with that god awful Britney/Madonna kiss.
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Forget manufactured pop. After suffering  a surfeit of Reality TV shows that propelled instantly  forgettable stars into the charts, British music fans have had  enough.
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The old music industry is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.