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MTV Loses 'Music
Television' From Its Logo

TRUTH IN BRANDING

Feb 9, 2010 6:16 PM CST

MTV Loses 'Music Television' From Its Logo

After all, music videos aren't even an afterthought now

(Newser) - In a move likely only to surprise anyone just out of a 25-year coma, MTV is dropping the words “Music Television” from the channel’s logo. MTV has been mostly music-video-free for some years now, giving over its airwaves to reality standbys like The Hills, The Osbournes, and its...

Jersey Shore Cast
Gets Second Season

Jan 30, 2010 1:22 PM CST

Jersey Shore Cast Gets Second Season

MTV bringing pack Pauly D. and crew in a new locale

(Newser) - It seems the lovable confused Guidos from Jersey Shore have been invited to return for a second season. MTV's hit reality show will have the lovable/hatable cast returning to TV in a new and as yet undisclosed location, reports People . For those who need a recap, MTV will air all...

Jersey Shore Cast
Gets Second Season

Jan 30, 2010 12:42 PM CST

Jersey Shore Cast Gets Second Season

Pauly D, the Situation, and everyone else will return to MTV

(Newser) - MTV's Jersey Shore will be back for a second season with its original cast. The network ordered 12 new episodes to air this summer. Pauly D, Mike, Snooki, Jenni, Sammi, Ronnie, and Vinny "escape the cold Northeast and find themselves in a new destination," says an MTV statement....

Jersey Shore Cast
May Be Replaced

greedy guidos

Jan 25, 2010 8:30 AM CST

Jersey Shore Cast May Be Replaced

MTV to ditch guidos, guidettes who won't agree to new salary

(Newser) - After just one season, the guidos and guidettes of Jersey Shore have gotten too big for their britches—and they could find themselves kicked off the hit MTV show. Unless salary negotiations wrap today, sources tell TMZ the network will replace any cast members who don’t accept the deal...

Clooney, MTV
Launching
Haiti Telethon

Jan 15, 2010 6:00 AM CST

Clooney, MTV Launching Haiti Telethon

Fundraiser set for next week

(Newser) - George Clooney and MTV are organizing a massive telethon next week to raise funds for quake-ravaged Haiti. There's no word yet on other celebrities who may join the effort, planned for Jan. 22, reports AP . The telethon would air on all MTV networks, including Comedy Central and VH1, and may...

Real Cancun
Among Films
of Decade

OPINION

Dec 15, 2009 7:29 PM CST

Real Cancun Among Films of Decade

Idiots romp, drink as US bombs Baghdad in MTV flick

(Newser) - The Real Cancun, MTV’s “jaw-dropping spectacle of American youth gone preposterously idiotic” from 2003, may be a film about “spoiled, attractive young party animals” who “gather to do body shots, dance, and make out like horny banhees and banshees,” but it "is a disturbingly...

Your Jersey Shore Glossary

WHAT'S A JUICEHEAD?

Dec 9, 2009 10:25 AM CST

Your Jersey Shore Glossary

The MTV reality show is awe-inspiring, as long as you understand vocab

(Newser) - “You are not prepared for Jersey Shore,” promises Leslie Gornstein of MTV’s controversial reality show—but perhaps her glossary will help. The show follows eight guidos and guidettes who descend upon the New Jersey town of Seaside Heights for the summer with a single goal: "to...

MTV's Jersey Shore
Irks Italian-Americans

Nov 25, 2009 1:50 PM CST

MTV's Jersey Shore Irks Italian-Americans

Stereotypes in 'Jersey Shore' are damaging, says UNICO

(Newser) - The young Italian-American stars of MTV’s upcoming reality show Jersey Shore are celebrated in a promo as the “hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos” this side of Parsippany. Ick, says Italian-American group UNICO. They may well “keep their hair high, their muscles juiced and their fists pumping all summer...

Ken Ober, Host of MTV's Remote Control, Dead at 52

OBITUARY

Nov 17, 2009 6:38 PM CST

Ken Ober, Host of MTV's Remote Control, Dead at 52

Cause of death still uncertain

(Newser) - Ken Ober, who hosted MTV’s 1980s game show Remote Control, died Sunday at 52; a rep says the cause is still unknown, but that the actor and stand-up comic complained of a headache and flu-like symptoms Saturday. The show—at the time a relative rarity, given that the channel...

MTV Show May Have Put DJ AM Over the Edge

Oct 17, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

MTV Show May Have Put DJ AM Over the Edge

Ex-addict got into close contact with drugs

(Newser) - Now that MTV is running the DJ AM reality show Gone Too Far—in which the recovering addict helped other addicts get clean—the question is tough to avoid: Did the show bring him too close to his demons and contribute to his death? It "could certainly have been...

MTV Will Show DJ AM's Drug-Intervention Show

Sep 24, 2009 6:09 PM CDT

MTV Will Show DJ AM's Drug-Intervention Show

Gone Too Far features Goldstein as mentor to drug addicts

(Newser) - MTV intends to air a drug-intervention reality show starring the late Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM. In Gone Too Far, Goldstein plays sober mentor to addicts. Given Goldstein’s recent death from a drug overdose, MTV was concerned the show could be seen as hypocritical or exploitative, but...

Kanye Wigs Out
During Taylor's
MTV Award

Sep 14, 2009 3:15 AM CDT

Kanye Wigs Out During Taylor's MTV Award

'I'm sooooo sorry,' he writes on blog after crazy rant

(Newser) - Crazed hip-hopper Kanye West stormed the stage last night during Taylor Swift's speech accepting her MTV award for Best Female Video to plug Beyoncé's video. Giddy country-music sweetheart Swift was mid-sentence when West, spotted earlier swigging cognac, yanked the mike from her to rant to a stunned audience. West...

Most Controversial
Music Videos

OPINION

Sep 12, 2009 8:14 AM CDT

Most Controversial Music Videos

Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, incestuous Gainsbourgs make list

(Newser) - With MTV's Video Music Awards set for Sunday (not that you'll see many videos on the channel these days), Oddee.com takes a look at some of the form’s most controversial:

Closer, Nine Inch Nails: To go along with the explicitly sexual lyrics, this 1994 piece includes a monkey

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DJ AM
Talked of
Sobriety,
Crack Fears

Aug 31, 2009 3:37 AM CDT

DJ AM Talked of Sobriety, Crack Fears

He hoped MTV reality program would help other addicts

(Newser) - DJ AM boasted of his 11 years of "sobriety"—freed from crack cocaine, his "drug of choice"—on an interview aired on MTV shortly before he was found dead last week of an apparent overdose. But Adam Goldstein also discussed nearly falling off the wagon as...

Eminem Approved
Bruno Butt Stunt

Jun 2, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

Eminem Approved Bruno Butt Stunt

Comedy writer comes clean on web

(Newser) - Make no butts about it: Eminem’s run-in with Sacha Baron Cohen’s derrière was staged, the Los Angeles Times reports. The man who wrote the bit for Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards took to the web to clear up the brouhaha for posterior—er, posterity. “Yes, the...

Twilight Sweeps MTV Awards

Jun 1, 2009 2:19 AM CDT

Twilight Sweeps MTV Awards

Eminen and "Bruno" tangle at pop culture fete

(Newser) - Teen fave Twilight swept the MTV Movie Awards last night with five wins—including Best Fight, Best Kiss, and Best Movie—reports Entertainment Weekly. Heath Ledger scored a posthumous Best Villain for Dark Knight, and former Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler nabbed the inaugural Best WTF Moment for Baby ...

MTV Ditches Rich-Kid Shows
for Do-Good Obama Era

Apr 19, 2009 6:23 AM CDT

MTV Ditches Rich-Kid Shows for Do-Good Obama Era

(Newser) - MTV is hoping to boost its sagging ratings by revamping itself in the image of the do-good Obama Era, reports the New York Times. In a new reality show, The Buried Life, four buddies road trip across the US, checking off the 100 things they hope to do before they...

20 Years Later,
Young MC Still Busts a Move

GLOSSIES

Mar 25, 2009 2:35 PM CDT

20 Years Later, Young MC Still Busts a Move

(Newser) - It’s been 20 years since self-described “1 Hit Wonder” Young MC released Bust a Move, but the rapper is happy the song has held up as well as it has, he tells Rolling Stone. People aren’t “going to get a babysitter to go to a club...

LC Prepares to Flee Hills

Feb 25, 2009 2:01 PM CST

LC Prepares to Flee Hills

Fifth season is all that she can do "and stay sane"

(Newser) - Even Lauren Conrad has had enough of Lauren Conrad. The Hills star says the upcoming fifth season of the MTV reality show will be her last. "This is as long as I can do it and stay sane," LC tells Seventeen. The wannabe fashion designer, whose past public...

Dudes Get Paid to Goof Off in Recession

Feb 7, 2009 4:09 PM CST

Dudes Get Paid to Goof Off in Recession

CollegeHumor.com brings sophomoric fun to MTV

(Newser) - High above the streets of Manhattan, where recession fears and Madoff angst prevail, a horde of twentysomethings are filling an office with 40,000 plastic balls—or counting how many bags of Doritos a colleague can eat. Meet the folks behind CollegeHumor.com, the popular, if puerile, website whose TV...