Word: vh1
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never looked so green. Revenues from the Los Angeles and New Orleans HOBs totaled more than $35 million last year. "If you watch Isaac at work, he's a genius--he looks rock 'n' roll, but he thinks Madison Avenue," says John Sykes, president of the music video network vh1 and a friend of Tigrett's. "He is building a quality brand--you come and hear the blues, buy a burger and a T shirt on the way out. That's pure Isaac. He's not a quick-buck guy. He thinks long-term, and he puts together very solid...
Nostalgia comes quickly in the '90s. We watch VH1's The Big '80s and laugh at the silly videos we thought were so cool only about seven years back; we yearn for the funnier, fresher David Letterman of, oh, about a year or so ago; perhaps some of us are already feeling misty-eyed in the wake of ABC's announcement last week that Daniel Benzali--who helped make baldness telegenic--will be departing from Murder One next season...
While Bennett, 49, is credited with reviving a moribund VH1, analysts are skeptical about whether his rejiggered Prodigy can survive in a new-media field where even giants like AT&T have yet to make money. First to market or not, the question these days for many Web firms is whether there's a market...
...there is no turning back. Everyone in Columbia, practically everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line, knows Hootie is lurking. By the time the band waits out the rain, its entrance will be about as much of a surprise as the appearance of one of its ubiquitous videos on VH1. Bryan is crushed. He unleashes what, for him, is the ultimate epithet: "Bummer...
...success of Cracked Rear View was credited to five main reasons--good timing, great music, and marketing, marketing, marketing. The strategy also depended to a great degree on VH1. Around the time the album was released, the cable channel, which had been an MTV-lite for aging baby boomers, was undergoing a format change to capture younger viewers. Hootie, Blues Traveler, Melissa Etheridge and others were adopted as the reformatted channel's signature acts, and all received loads of album-moving airplay. Later, after Cracked Rear View sold its first million or so copies, Atlantic decided to focus on Middle...