Comments on: “Name That Tune” Revived for MTV

By: King Vu

King Vu — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:13:07 +0000

Hi,

Anyone has info (format, rule, website…) of this game? Plz tell me

Thanks

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:38:41 +0000

I think a lot of it is because “Power of 10″ scored such good ratings. However, with the state of pop music being where it is, I think I would’ve preferred CBS to handle the show. With Viacom, it’ll be watered down, and cater to their specific demographic.

By: Vanilla Spice

Vanilla Spice — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:09:03 +0000

All this really means is Viacom didn’t want to put it on prime time, so they put it on cable instead.

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:10:39 +0000

Some young unknown Mtv Prettyboy will host the show

By: Marc Power

Marc Power — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:28:05 +0000

Music today for the msot part is crap. IMO don’t get me wrong there are some good artists. could go either way. the hsot will have a huge part of it though. I think we can rule out Donny Osmond, becuase he’s too busy shooting 2 shows already in UK.

By: Pierre Kelly

Pierre Kelly — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:57:12 +0000

I was hoping BET would join in.

By: David Palomares

David Palomares — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:40:45 +0000

This reminds me too much of Law & Order, You have Homicide, SVU, and CI. Now…

Name That Tune: MTV
Name That Tune: VH1
Name That Tune: CMT

I guess “Name That Tune: Polka” is the Equivalent of Trial by Jury.

(This randomly came up when I first read it.)

By: Xavier

Xavier — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:53:18 +0000

Heck MTV2 barely plays music anymore. VH1 has a network called “VH1 classics” and they play music almost all day. They mostly play stuff from the 80’s.

But this NTT sounds really weird. I guess it won’t hurt to give it a shot.

By: David Howell

David Howell — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:02:23 +0000

Oh now that is odd.

There’s been two versions of a format running simultaneously (Link a few years back, Wheel a long way back, presumably Deal next year), but three must be a first.

VH1 still plays music in the UK, although not 24/7. MTV, on the other hand… pretty much doesn’t, and instead there are multiple MTV-branded channels playing different types of music (the almost self-explanatory MTV Hits and MTV Dance, MTV Base for R&B, MTV2 for music Alex might not hate, probably some others I’ve forgotten).

Anyway, I digress. It’ll be interesting to see how this works out.

By: davec

davec — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:47:10 +0000

Yeah, who would know what MTV & VH1’s core audiences music tastes are anymore, but, my guesses:

CMT - Country (obviously)
MTV - Hiphop/R&B and current Top 40
VH1 - Adult Contemporary and 70s-90s Top 40