So at the end of this past year, I was seeing, I started seeing these headlines, you probably saw them too, that said that basically MTV was over.

That after years of drifting away from showing videos, it had finally decided that it was just going to stop broadcasting any music videos at all.

I feel like that we've been seeing this exact headline

for 30 years. I know. Totally. I mean, we've certainly been moving in this direction. But the story

was that the parent company, Paramount, had completely pulled the plug on music videos once and for all.

In some cases, there were these stories. I saw one headline that said, after 44 years,

MTV is officially dead. And I was completely shocked. I mean, I knew that...

Where am I going to see 120 hours of ridiculousness? Ridiculousness. The problem with all of this

is it's not true. Not entirely true. What really happened is MTV has shut down about a half a dozen five or so of its music channels in the UK and Europe. They did go dark on December 31st. But in the U.S. and Canada, not a lot has changed, at least yet.

You can still get videos on the MTV Classic channel.

The MTV Flagship Channel, the main MTV channel,

best I can tell if you go and look at the,

it'll show you like the TV guide for what's showing.

It's nothing but ridiculous.

It will literally say ridiculous, ridiculousness, ridiculousness. Ridiculousness. And I did a count at one point during one of the

many, many, many pieces I have done for NPR over the years about the death of MTV. Right.

And one of the last times I did one of those pieces, I counted, and there are 168 hours in a week, and 110 of those hours were taken up by ridiculousness.

Oh, my gosh.

I've never even seen that show.

I literally thought you guys were using ridiculousness as sort of a general term.

Well, so that's the flagship channel.

MTV2, as far as I can tell,

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