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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Britney Spears hasn&#39;t had a hit in  years. MTV stopped playing music videos years ago.
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Some music companies get it, others don't.
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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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Give MTV credit for putting a brave face on the 2004 Video Music Awards. Last year, the network, which is nominally devoted to music videos, commandeered Radio City Music Hall
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MTV has managed to find entertainment in Ozzy Osbourne taking out the trash and Mariah Carey touring her house. On Thursday night, they hoped to squeeze a few more drops out of celebrity navel gazing.
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If you&#39;ve ever suffered through a case of the whirlies, then you have a good sense of last night&#39;s MTV Video Music Awards.
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Up-and-coming rockers don't need million-dollar videos, A-list publicists, or glowing
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Young Latinos&#146; taste in entertainment runs from English to Spanish, from American to Latin, and back. And MTV is giving chase.
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Sony's PlayStation Portable draws a new selection of TV programming, including MTV shows.
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For MTV, a new association with a video game called Guitar Hero is opening a path back to that networkâs roots in music.
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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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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- I was surprised by the relative lack of hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of latenight television.
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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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When MTV: Music Television debuted  on August 1, 1981, many media experts felt it was doomed.
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It tries to turn its live music show into a TV star.
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In the 21-year history of MTV's Video Music Awards, viewers have been treated to some eye-popping moments &#151; Prince's bare buttocks, Lil' Kim's sequined pasty, Britney and Madonna's steamy kiss last year.