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  MTV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MTV's combination of music videos, youthful video jockeys, irreverent commentary, promotion of special rock concerts, and news and documentaries about bands and performers established the network's popularity with youthful viewers, and it became a leading promoter of new rock music and rock musicians.
MTV UK has also been attacked for over-use of on-screen graphics, such as logos, programme promotion and countdown timers, and its electronica-themed genre channel MTV Dance is often derided for playing a lack of dance music during the day, preferring a mix of pop-dance, pop, and RandB.
MTV and VH1 drew heavy criticism for their coverage of Live 8, the multinational concert of musical artists which raised awareness for African debt relief.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MTV   (3732 words)

  
 MTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MTV's roots can be traced back to when Warner Amex Cable (a joint venture Warner Communications and American Express) launched the first two-way interactive cable TV system QUBE in Columbus Ohio.
MTV started in New York City in and became available in most of the United States in the mid- 1980s with the nationwide expansion of cable.
MTV started off showing music videos nearly but as time passed they introduced a of other shows including animated cartoons such as Beavis and Butthead and Daria "reality" shows such as The Real World and Road Rules prank/comedic shows such The Tom Green Show Buzzkill Jackass Punk'd and Boiling Points and sitcoms such Undressed.
www.freeglossary.com /MTV   (1232 words)

  
 Articles - MTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MTV executives countered by claiming that there were few—if any—promotional videos available from fl and other minority acts, although artists such as Diana Ross and The Jacksons had been making music videos before MTV existed.
These shows included: "think MTV," which talks about current political issues such as gay marriage, the U.S. presidential election (two years ago the network spent a large amount of time on the 2004 election), and war in other countries, among other topics.
Other politically diverse programmes include ´´True Life´´, which documents people´s lives and problems, and shows an epilogue of after the show was shot; MTV News Specials, which centers on very current events in both the music industry and the world; and a lot of other shows based on the current times.
www.gaple.com /articles/MTV   (2936 words)

  
 Articles - CBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An example of CBS´s graphic-design particularity: on all official CBS letterhead, a tiny dot (at most a point in diameter) was pre-printed to indicate to a secretary where the typewriter carriage should be positioned for the salutation of a letter.
In other diversification attempts, CBS would buy (and later sell) sports teams (especially the New York Yankees baseball club), book publishers, map-makers, toy manufacturers, and other properties.
In 2004 the FCC imposed a record $550,000 fine on CBS for its broadcast of a Super Bowl half-time show (produced by then sister-unit MTV) in which singer Janet Jackson´s breast was briefly exposed.
www.ezorange.com /articles/CBS   (2993 words)

  
 Reviewing 'Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Biology: The Web of Life' (1998)
This ignores several decades' worth of research into the early diversification of life, and it also ignores what we have learned about exchanges of nucleic acids among the ancient organisms that gave rise to today's Archaea, Eubacteria and Eukaryota.
Their list comprises no fewer than 92 items, and it is ridiculous.
Exploring Matter and Energy was the work of writers who imagined that a newborn human is 0 cm long, that Earth rotates while its atmosphere stands still, that Earth is permeated by magical forces which can affect human fortunes, and that the ancient Greeks and Arabs spoke English [note 10].
www.textbookleague.org /95sf-aw.htm   (7314 words)

  
 Coranto Archive
In its quest to get the console out in time for the holiday season, Microsoft hasn't exactly kept the shutters drawn on its secrets regarding its next-gen contribution: the Xbox 360.
Pictures of the console surfaced before its debut on MTV, its name was exposed before the company could spin it itself, and the prospect of standard wireless controllers came with no strings attached.
Today, Microsoft laid down new facts about its upcoming console at the Games Convention in Leipzig, and they sounded awfully familiar to analyst predictions and forum posters' speculations.
www.gameplaymonthly.com /news/news-archive-14-8-2005.html   (4091 words)

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