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...Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's performance at halftime included Jackson's bared right breast when Timberlake ripped a piece from her costume. CBS quickly switched to another camera, but the incident was nonetheless relayed to an estimated 140 million viewers. In statements after the Super Bowl, Jackson, Timberlake, MTV (which produced the halftime show) and CBS all apologized to the public, with Timberlake calling the incident a "wardrobe malfunction" and Jackson saying the decision to have a costume reveal was made after final rehearsals without MTV's knowledge. Parents' groups and the NFL have expressed outrage at the incident...
...still nominally a music channel. But in the era of J. Lo and American Idol, The Osbournes and the Michael Jackson circus, being a music channel does not mean being about only music. Says MTV Networks Group president Judy McGrath: "Music culture is now a place where you'll find Liza Minnelli and OutKast and the Queer Eye guys on the same stage." So a popular VH1 subgenre is shows about current celebrity culture only tangentially related to music--Fabulous Life of ..., 100 Hottest Hotties and so on. "I was in Puerto Rico at our sales meeting," says VH1 president...
Thanks to the tireless efforts of VH1, it is becoming nearly impossible, dude, not to remember. A longtime way station for people too old for sister network MTV and too young for the History Channel, the music network found sudden relevance in 1997 with water-cooler hit Behind the Music, a saucy bio show about the travails of rock stars. But VH1 binged on the show, running and running it until it collapsed (much like its earlier hit Pop-Up Video). In 2002, with ratings scraping bottom, the network brought in new management to decide, in effect, what...
This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...
This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...