Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what a "reasonable man" would do in his own defense. Only one of the four victims, Canty, actually approached Goetz and asked him for money. All four had police records, but Goetz could not know that. Two of them carried screwdrivers because they were planning to break into some video machines, but Goetz could not know that either. He could only look at them -- he said that Canty was smiling and had "shiny eyes" -- and guess what might happen next. Having been mugged and seriously injured by three black youths in 1981, Goetz took out his .38-cal. revolver...
...sure, TV's first and still preeminent music-video channel is in no danger of demise. MTV is now available in 35.8 million cable homes, up from 2.5 million when it started. Though the number of viewers at any given time is relatively small, advertisers continue to seek MTV's desirable teenage audience. Net revenues have risen steadily (from $71 million in 1984 to $111 million in 1986, according to industry figures), and last year MTV turned a profit of $47 million...
Whatever the true extent of the erosion, it was probably inevitable. MTV's success spawned a host of imitators, such as NBC's Friday Night Videos and WTBS's Night Tracks, which diluted the audience. A more serious problem, in the view of many, has been the declining quality of the videos, which record companies supply to MTV at no charge. "MTV has no control over their main source of programming, and that's the video clips," notes Video Producer Ken Walz. "They're trapped by what they get for free...
...Video Generation...
Move over PBS. MTV is taking over in at least one Harvard classroom. Students taking Royston Coppenger's course, "Popular Entertainment: From Melodrama to Rock and Roll," will spend classtime watching film and video screenings of popular works...