ENTERTAINMENT
October 1, 1992 | By Barry Gutman, FOR THE INQUIRER
Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Liberace. Not exactly names that spring to mind when you think of music videos. After all, these artists have never even been on MTV (well, except for Crosby, whose "Little Drummer Boy" duet with David Bowie is exhumed each Christmas). In fact, most of them did their best work without benefit of color TV. Nevertheless, they were an important part of television. In the '50s and early '60s, these veteran crooners, belters and musicians starred in variety series and specials - and from these, new music videos have been created.
NEWS
March 6, 1995 | By Bill Ordine, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Lacking the nostalgic charm of a Wurlitzer bubble jukebox, but delivering basically the same type of entertainment, a new cable television service called The Box debuted on Suburban Cable TV in Delaware County Wednesday. The Box makes available about 300 pay-per-view music videos on Channel 67, ranging from country to rock to rap. "What makes this different than, say, MTV, is that it's truly interactive," said Suburban Cable TV regional marketing manager John Murawski. "People are choosing what they want to see rather than reacting to what's being offered by someone in New York.
NEWS
May 15, 2008 | By George Curry
An increasing number of people are fed up with the airing of sexually explicit, violent, degrading, stereotypical music videos on TV, especially during hours when teenagers haven't turned in for bed. Citizens are fighting back by filing complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, demonstrating in front of the homes of network executives and, more recently, targeting television sponsors. Having edited Emerge magazine, a former publication owned by Black Entertainment Television (BET)
ENTERTAINMENT
March 17, 2002 | By Annette John-Hall INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Ever since Robert L. Johnson launched Black Entertainment Television in 1980, BET has come to mean many things to the many African Americans the cable network targets. To its hundreds of thousands of viewers, BET means, as its snazzy slogan proclaims, Black Star Power. But to its many vocal critics, who decry its abundance of lecherous music videos and lack of quality programs, BET still stands for Bad Entertainment Television. Many detractors hoped that BET's sale last year to mega-media conglomerate Viacom for a staggering $3 billion would make things better.
NEWS
April 24, 2003 | By David Hiltbrand INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The playing field began to tilt two years ago. The operators at MTV's popular countdown show TRL were being inundated with requests for Michelle Branch. Problem was, they didn't have any videos from the young Arizona singer. Her debut CD, The Spirit Room, wasn't in stores yet. So MTV called up Branch's record label, Maverick, wondering where in the world kids were seeing her clip. The answer was AOL Music. Along with Yahoo's similarly themed Web site, Launch, AOL Music has become a significant player in the music industry.
NEWS
March 1, 1992 | By ROSS K. BAKER
While sitting in a darkened movie theater here the other night watching the stars of Thelma and Louise going on their sadistic rampage through the American Southwest, I thought to myself, "What must the Swedes think of Americans? Are they able to place this pageant of violence in some larger context? Do they understand that the United States is not some continuously unfolding series of outrages, rapes, shootings, and car chases?" The answer to that question is that, among the most impressionable people in this very sophisticated country, that is precisely what they think.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 2, 1990 | By Jonathan Takiff, Daily News Staff Writer
What do Living Colour, Public Enemy, a Tribe Called Quest, Ziggy Marley and the Jungle Brothers have in common? All are happening young musicians with strong notions about changing the world, and with fresh urban sounds to spark the revolution. And all have put their trust, their ideas and - to a large degree - their future into the hands of an equally fresh young brother, filmmaker Charles Stone III. At the moment, Stone is helping light a fire under Public Enemy's new single "911 Is a Joke" with a caustic, darkly comic music video on the theme of police and emergency rescue team neglect.
NEWS
September 4, 1992 | FROM INQUIRER WIRE SERVICES
Scenes showing brand-name beer and other alcoholic drinks should be taken out of movies, music videos and television programs aimed at youth, a coalition of health, religious and education groups told the government yesterday. In a petition to the Federal Trade Commission, the coalition said the alcohol industry should not be allowed to pitch its products to youth while sponsoring sports and musical events. It also objected to its advertisements or the use of brand names in scenes in movies, films and music videos.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 31, 1989 | By Jonathan Takiff, Daily News Staff Writer
The arrival of Bruce Springsteen's "Video Anthology/1978-88" in stores today is a landmark. Eighteen songs and 100 minutes long, this bounty of live performances and dramatic music videos will delight diehard Springsteen fans. For years, they've been hankering to own a piece of his electrifying visual persona. At another extreme, the $24.95 videotape may be knocked by those suffering from Bruce burnout as more proof that "the Boss" has succumbed to rock star- itis, that he's become just another packaged, exploitative pop product.
NEWS
April 2, 1998 | by Melanie C. Redmond, For the Daily News
THEY WANT TO BE YOUR MUSIC DESTINATION SonicNet (http://www.sonicnet.com) is constantly reinventing itself in an attempt to become the ultimate Web site for music fans. Its mission: "Reinventing how music news, entertainment and information are communicated. " The site is divided into three areas: Music News, Music Guide and the Station, all of which make use of the latest audio and video technology for the most complete and sophisticated presentation of music on the Internet. SonicNet's Music News is the most popular, with daily music-related news and reports from correspondents and staff writers around the globe.