Article - MTV or RTV?

So MTV is looking for 16-24 year olds who might be considering abortion and want to share their experience with the world! Their Tweet was as follows:

mtvuk Are you pregnant, 16-24 and considering an abortion? Are you willing to share your experience? Contact mtvstories@mtvne.com in confidence

Why?

I’m guessing that the success of the MTV show 16& Pregnant (which has now been picked up by LivingTV) has led to the producers wanting to take this type of reality show to the next level.

But this is MTV…. MUSIC Television! Do the producers even remember this?



Probably not seeing as the new MTV logo has got rid of the ‘music television’ that was always written underneath it. MTV is only known now for its reality shows. Starting in the late 90’s reality shows steadily started to take over from the music videos. We’ve seen shows like The Osbournes, Jackass, Punk, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, The Ashlee Simpson show and 8th & Ocean.

And let’s not forget the gems such as South Park, Cribs, Pimp My Ride, Laguna Beach, NEXT, My Super Sweet 16, Viva La Bam, The Hills, The City and the controversial Jersey Shore. The list of shows that have nothing to do with music are endless.

If it wasn’t for death of stars such as Micheal Jackson and the Video Music Awards, you would be completely right think that MTV no longer has any involvement in the music world. There are sister channels such as MTV Base and MTV hits that still provide music but I think I’m not the only one who would like to see MTV go back to what it used to be.

Somehow I doubt this will ever happen! Oh well, we have a show about teen abortions to look forward to. Who needs music eh?

As I write, Gossip Girl is being shown on the channel and a quite look at the line up for the rest of the day shows that the only show that will even feature music is the dance contest ‘America’s Next Best Dance Crew’.

I suggest the logo should be changed again. In fact, let’s have a whole revamp and call it RTV, Reality Television. Maybe that way someone can just start MTV again and so it can do what it was originally created for no so long ago!

 

Published: www.thenewcurrent.com

Interview with Melvin Odoom

Melvin Odoom is co-presenter of Digs on MTV with Ricky Williams. They also present the popular breakfast show on London radio station Kiss100. We spoke briefly about university and life after graduation...

So what do you think of Bournemouth nightlife?

It was a really good night. I’m surprised at how vibrant Bournemouth is down here. Everyone’s representing, the girls are looking good and people enjoy their music. Everyone’s been really cool.

So you met actually met Ricky at university. Was it helpful to have someone with you when you were trying to get into the industry?

It was kind of an accident you know! I was studying a slightly different course to Ricky at first. I’ve got a really strict African mum and she wanted me to do a theory based subject and so when I met Ricky he was like ‘Look Melvin you’re very animated so I think you should be on the kind of course I’m doing’. So that’s how I switched over. We became good mates and started doing local and student radio...

I was going to say you both started working together on the student radio at Luton University - now called Bedfordshire Uni.

Yeah and that’s how it kinda happened and that’s how we found out that we work well together. It wasn’t like we planned to do stuff together. It just sort of happened by accident.

Any tips for about how to find jobs once students graduate?

Work experience is the key. The one thing I would like to change about how to went about things after uni is that I should have got into work experience earlier. When we left uni, Ricky worked for literally every radio station and well, I like money, so I started working straight away. Teaching dance and drama and working in youth clubs. So he got into radio before me and then he got me into it.

So get as much work experience as possible?

Even if you’re still at uni, work experience is the key because it gives you a taste of real life. There is no module, no course that will really teach you real life. That’s what you really need.

Do you still get nervous or embarrassed when you’re interviewing celebrities?

Yeh definitely, it’s good to have nerves, to have nervous energy. It can create good energy.

Who has your favourite interviewee?

Loads...we done too many.

Could you choose a top three?

Will Smith, Rihanna and Alicia Keys.

You can watch Melvin every day from 4pm till 7pm on MTV ONE.
You can also listen to Ricky and Melvin every weekday morning from 6 till 9 at totalkiss.com