The wave of Viacom layoffs has reached MTV. We’ve learned that layoffs are underway at the music network. There is no ballpark headcount yet as I hear the process started yesterday and continues today, with some estimate that as much as 12% of MTV’s staff may be gone by the time this is over at the end of day today. I hear no department is being spared but for now, I hear the New York group has been seriously hit, especially those working on the unscripted side, including longtime staffers. Sister network VH1 also is being hit we hear, with veteran employees in marketing and promotion, design and PR among those impacted by layoffs.

“As announced, we are in the process of restructuring and there will be employees leaving the company as a result. We are so grateful for the contributions they have made to Viacom,” the company said in a statement to Deadline, declining further comment.

Viacom is in the process of combining the bulk of two network groups – Music and Entertainment – into one under Doug Herzog, and there is an ongoing consolidation in a number of departments as part of that, including Production, Research and Digital.


https://deadline.com/2015/03/mtv-layoffs-viacom-restructuring-1201389810/

I stopped watching all of Viacom's networks/channels years ago.

I hope MTV goes back to its roots and plays music videos again...

Keep the vids but have some variety as well...that's the lesson for today...and the reality bubble has busted!

The days of music videos is long gone and reality TV is so stale and boring. The last time I flipped by Mtv I could not even tell what they were showing.

Viacom management is awful. Networks with no identity and endless commercials. How could anyone manage to screw up TVLand? Classic sitcoms for heaven's sake. But have fewer true "Classics" and cut the episodes to shreds and show 20 commercials in a row and it is dead.

The days of music videos is long gone and reality TV is so stale and boring.

Well...if anyone wants to see a music video anymore, they go to YouTube not MTV.

This should be its new logo...

http://s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/81337/1256654330/nmtv.jpg

:uplol:

I think the Internet has killed TV Land/MTV because of

Youtube

Hulu

Netflix


With all those options who the hell needs to watch music videos or classic tv on those channels? LOL

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/03/12/nickelodeon-hit-with-layoffs-as-viacom-undergoes-restructuring/

Nickelodeon is also affecting it when Viacom restructures.

I really only need N@N when I am about to go to sleep lol


Other than that the channel serves me no purpose

Viacom sure lost its roots...

I just hope they can have N@N be a better station, back to this...

Hl9gHrmNoDI

...but I doubt it...

I think the Internet has killed TV Land/MTV because of

Youtube

Hulu

Netflix


With all those options who the hell needs to watch music videos or classic tv on those channels? LOL

TV Land/MTV wasn't killed by the internet, it was killed by the exec's in charge.

By the way, there are still a lot of people unable to watch TV online because not everyone has unlimited internet.

TV Land/MTV wasn't killed by the internet, it was killed by the exec's in charge.

By the way, there are still a lot of people unable to watch TV online because not everyone has unlimited internet.

Lets just say the internet and digital TV defintely contributed to the downfall since they both offer what tv land used to give the public.

Lets face it. Nick/MTV/TV Land, the whole bunch of them fell into this "Reality TV is the new thing and old stuff is garbage" mentality. You've seen it over the years with TV Land/Nick/MTV. Look at how its declined. I mean remember how great Nick at Nite and TV Land USED to be? So honestly, like I mentioned in another thread, I hate to see anybody lose there jobs but they did it to themselves. They should have left well enough alone.

I stopped watching all of Viacom's networks/channels years ago.

Same for me.

Same for me.


Ditto! Want to watch a music video? :confused:

Try YouTube, they have at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them! :lol: :rofl::rotflmao::brent

As for other programming, I got that covered too! :D

http://deadline.com/2015/03/nickelodeon-executives-depart-layoffs-1201394368/#comments

The brunt of the Viacom layoffs hit Nickelodeon yesterday and today, sources tell Deadline. I hear a number of executives and assistants were affected in such areas as preschool, animation, legal and talent. I hear among those who have departed in the restructuring are Emmy winner Teri Weiss, Nickelodeon’s EVP Preschool Programming; Kay Wilson Stallings, SVP, Production & Development, Nickelodeon Preschool, Nick Jr., Nick Jr. and NickMom; and Nickelodeon Animation Studio SVPs Rich Magallanes and Jenna Boyd. The cable network would not comment on the layoffs beyond the statement it issued last week: “As announced, we are in the process of restructuring and there will be employees leaving the company as a result. We are so grateful for the contributions they have made to Viacom.”

Nickelodeon is the latest Viacom division to undergo layoffs as part of the companywide headcount reductions, joining sister networks MTV, VH1 and TV Land as well as Paramount Pictures. The Magallanes and Boyd departures were first reported by CartoonBrew.

http://deadline.com/2015/03/nickelodeon-executives-depart-layoffs-1201394368/#comments



TVLAND/N@N is now the VIDEO version of MYSPACE

Too late for changes now:lol:

So I guess we were right all along. As many times as Nick/Viacom said that everything was alright, obviously it wasnt. I mean anymore layoffs coming?

Just look at this sh*tty programing schedule by TV Land the rest of the evening

7:30pm....Walker,Texas Ranger

8pm. Family Fued

8:30....Family Fued

9pm.Everbody loves Raymond

9:30pm Everybody Loves Raymond

10pm...Hot in Cleveland

10:30pm.......The Soul Man

11pm....King of Queens

11:30pm....King of Queens



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

They run an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger over a 90 minute period? That means AT LEAST 45 minutes of commercials! :omg:

No Thanks! Besides I have this entire show on DVD, along with the Trial By Fire movie and its spinoff, Sons of Thunder (Thank you ioffer for those two "extras"). :D

They run an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger over a 90 minute period? That means AT LEAST 45 minutes of commercials! :omg:

It was actually 72 minute period for an episode when going off the clock.

TVLand has aired most promos during the break, but Nick at Nite doesn't and it's upsetting. And also the off the clock part as well.

I figure there were at least 25-35 commercials stuffed into this show, and as I've mentioned a number of times, I have better things to do than wasting my time watching that drivel. When I bought WTR (It was one of the first box sets I collected after "cutting the cord") I noticed two things. First I noted (as expected) many scenes were cut out of the episodes (To stuff in more commercials). The second thing was a number of episodes that weren't shown on the cable nets. They included episodes where Walker dealt with the following:

Mad Doctors (Using Nursing Home Residents as "Guinea Pigs" for medical experiments).

White Slavery (Young Women kidnapped to be sold as sex slaves on a website).

Satanism (Children being kidnapped by cult members to be sacrificed on Halloween).

Some pretty heavy stuff IMO. :eek:

Ahhhh poor MTV,they wont be able to keep showing that UTTER TRASH PROGRAMMING ANYMORE!!!!!!! (They dont give a rats ass how bad it is,ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS THE $$$$$$$$$ IT GIVES THEM.......... THE SOONER THEY GO OFF THE AIR THE BETTER!!)

You guys hit the nail on the head. I mean I wouldnt dare tape anything off of Nick, TV Land. Why should I? Anything that I have taped off those networks were when it was the glory days of the networks and you guys know what I'm talking about.


Its just this simple.

Elminate the damn off the clock programming.

Limit your commercials.

Stop shoving your original programming down our throats, in fact, how about eliminating the original programming all together?

I hope MTV goes back to its roots and plays music videos again...

Keep the vids but have some variety as well...that's the lesson for today...and the reality bubble has busted!

MTV's major problem besides the lack of music related programming in general (not just music videos) is that they pander too much to the female tween demographic instead of college age males. In other words, there's not enough of a rock and/or indy influence (to serve as a counterbalance of sorts) anymore. MTV no longer stands-out as being the "cool, edgy" channel because they're fighting for the same audience as ABC Family and The CW. What doesn't help is that they spent too long on vapid reality programming instead of something truly cutting-edge or subversive (for its time) like Beavis & Butt-head.

MTV's major problem besides the lack of music related programming in general (not just music videos) is that they pander too much to the female tween demographic instead of college age males. In other words, there's not enough of a rock and/or indy influence (to serve as a counterbalance of sorts) anymore. MTV no longer stands-out as being the "cool, edgy" channel because they're fighting for the same audience as ABC Family and The CW. What doesn't help is that they spent too long on vapid reality programming instead of something truly cutting-edge or subversive (for its time) like Beavis & Butt-head.

Well...MTV is ****ed!

PS-The Disney Channel has the same tween competition as well!

http://deadline.com/2015/08/viacom-philippe-dauman-heir-apparent-1201493629/

He ran the sprockets off of established hits when he should have invested more to develop fresh content and franchises. At one point SpongeBob SquarePants represented 40% of Nickelodeon’s airtime.

The company stuck with inexpensive reality TV productions after their novelty began to wear off. Viacom “built franchises that lasted a decade — such as SpongeBob, Dora The Explorer and Jon Stewart — but hasn’t reinvested for the 21st century,” says one executive who knows the company well. “It’s jaw-dropping.”

Dauman either pushed out or failed to keep some of Viacom’s most creative executives.

He failed to make bold and early forays into digital media. “Where is MTV in the online music revolution?” one executive asks. “Where’s Nickelodeon in kids’ gaming? They should have been there.”

He sued YouTube to force it to take down unauthorized clips from Viacom shows at a time when others (such as Saturday Night Live) recognized the platform’s power to build followings.

He took a short-term financial gains beginning in 2011 by selling kids TV hits including SpongeBob to Netflix. That now appears to have backfired by encouraging young viewers to abandon Nickelodeon and other ad-supported channels and go online where they can watch shows whenever they want, without ads.

Those ad-free platforms are becoming more appealing as Viacom channels make up for the decline in ratings points by cutting back on programming minutes and packing in additional commercials. By one count, time devoted to ads on BET in primetime was up 15% in Q2 vs the period last year, while MTV and VH1 were up 11%. Nickelodeon’s ad time increased 6% from 7 AM to 7 PM.

Paramount for years over relied on film distribution deals with other studios including Marvel and DreamWorks Animation. When they fell apart, Viacom’s studio was left with too few of its own hit franchises.

The studio might have been able to cushion the blow it if had a thriving TV production unit. But that went to CBS in their 2006 split, and critics say Dauman waited too long to build a new TV unit at Paramount. “A stand-alone studio without TV is not a great business,” says one executive who knows the businesses well. “Now they’re trying to do it from scratch. But that’s not an easy thing to do. They’re not Warner or Fox, and they don’t have a library.”

I'm sorry to see anyone lose his or her job (esp. when it's someone who's prolly underpaid but hard-working, while the incompetent six-figure bosses keep their jobs and get bonuses), but Viacom set themselves up for this. For years, they coasted on cheap, generic programming, and put everything else on the back burner. It worked in the early-2000s, when the only competition was competing networks.

Now, you can find entertaining original shows online. Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, etc. have original programming...even Youtube has a few good shows here and there. Viacom is trying to keep up, and doing everything wrong, as evidenced by TMC's article. Last time I watched a Viacom network was a movie on Comedy Central last year. Commercial breaks literally every 10 minutes, and the commercial break lasted a good four or five minutes. No thanks.

As long as I can find unedited, unaltered TV shows on whatever streaming service (love that Roku!), I'm good.

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Viacom, once perceived as trend setters have gotten too safe and are unable to adapt to changing landscape.

I'm sorry to see anyone lose his or her job (esp. when it's someone who's prolly underpaid but hard-working, while the incompetent six-figure bosses keep their jobs and get bonuses), but Viacom set themselves up for this. For years, they coasted on cheap, generic programming, and put everything else on the back burner. It worked in the early-2000s, when the only competition was competing networks.

Now, you can find entertaining original shows online. Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, etc. have original programming...even Youtube has a few good shows here and there. Viacom is trying to keep up, and doing everything wrong, as evidenced by TMC's article. Last time I watched a Viacom network was a movie on Comedy Central last year. Commercial breaks literally every 10 minutes, and the commercial break lasted a good four or five minutes. No thanks.

As long as I can find unedited, unaltered TV shows on whatever streaming service (love that Roku!), I'm good.


Or how about the fact that they have movie window of 3hrs. and the run time of the movie is 1hr. and 40 min. yet they STILL cut scenes out!!!

The whole problem is playing commercials for too long.

The whole problem is playing commercials for too long.


Yup, Friends goes off at 1:18am and Fresh Prince starts at 1:24am

And then at 1:27am it's another set of commercials

Cable TV's days are numbered as it is. The best thing Viacom could do is consolidate their channels down to just a handful. It doesn't make sense to have multiple channels all playing the same garbage. For instance, why do we need MTV, MTV 2, MTVU, etc.? Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, and Teennick, etc.?

I would do this:

Nick Jr., Nicktoons and Teennick merge with Nickelodeon
MTV 2, MTVU, Tr3s, VH1, and VH1 Classic merge with MTV
Centric merges with BET
Nick at Nite merges with TV Land
CMT stays
Logo stays
Spike stays
Comedy Central stays

So now you have 8 channels as opposed to 18.

Nickelodeon, TV Land, MTV, CMT, BET, Logo, Spike, and Comedy Central

Each channel could then offer unique programming with variety.

Yeah but if you want to be technical about it, they could fill up programming for 18 channels. They just dont want too. Look at how they program there schedules. They must take, what, an hour to do?

Merging wouldn't be a terrible idea, or move to more of a streaming model. There's plenty of content for Viacom to create an app similar to HBO Now...even just original shows from each network could probably do pretty well. I'd LOVE to see a "Viacom Classics" channel with older Nick, MTV and Comedy Central shows, and would even pay for it!

As for filling the 18 networks, I imagine they look at everything from a financial standpoint, and figure they can save money by airing the same sitcom reruns and reality shows. Especially now that they're losing money.

http://deadline.com/2015/09/mtv-president-stephen-friedman-exits-1201561527/

The executive shakeup at MTV continues. MTV president Stephen Friedman, an 18-year MTV veteran who has run the Viacom network since 2008, is leaving (http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/stephen-friedman-mtv-president-1201606584/). He just made the announcement internally. Doug Herzog, who added MTV Networks to his portfolio in the February Viacom restructuring, will name a new MTV president tomorrow.

It would be nice if they took that garbage off MTV and put music back on it!!

I'd like to see if there are any changes in store for MTV.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/05/viacoms-channels-receive-mixed-results/

Viacom channels come to the upfront market with a mixed lot of Nielsen ratings. On the Money got its hands on the latest season-to-date C3 numbers for 18- to 49-year-olds, through Feb. 14 vs. the same period last year.

Comedy Central, which lost Jon Stewart but gained Amy Schumer, is down 20 percent; MTV is down 8 percent; and MTV2 is off 20 percent. In the plus column, big money-earner Nickelodeon is up 9 percent, and Nick-at-Nite grew 4 percent. Spike is flat. VH1 grew 22 percent, and VH1 Classic fell 23 percent.

All of Viacoms networks ARE GARBAGE and need to just shutdown!!!!!!

How the hell does Nick at Nite grow at 4%!!!??? They've had the same four shows on for years.

How the hell does Nick at Nite grow at 4%!!!??? They've had the same four shows on for years.
I could honestly believe that removal of How I Met Your Mother and Everybody Loves Raymond, and Fresh Prince out of primetime lineup might have to do with some people watching Nick at Nite, but it really is not enough viewers from 2 years ago when there is a variety, but that was before fall 2014 decline.

But I have to agree with you that running same 4 shows on autopilot is all crap. I would also think George Lopez fans are tuning out that they are overplayed for 8 years and stopped watching the show altogether, and some complained on facebook for this.

All 4 shows are overplayed.

How the hell does Nick at Nite grow at 4%!!!??? They've had the same four shows on for years.


Because people who was not alive in 2003-2005 are just discovering these shows. New generation of fans

These 4 shows generate late 80s (Full House) and 2000s sitcoms. I'll simplify again, but for those who don't know:
Nick@Nite acquired
Full House (1987-1995) (Oct 2003 to Apr or May 2009; Oct 2010-Jun 2011; one week only Aug 2011; Sept 2012-current)
Fresh Prince (1990-1996) (Sept 2004-Sept 2009; late Sept 2014-current)
Friends (1994-2004) (Sept 2011-current)
George Lopez (2002-2007) (Sept 2007-current)

Because people who was not alive in 2003-2005 are just discovering these shows. New generation of fans
You're referring to Full House and Fresh Prince that you should've specified. And since new generation fans don't know much about 90s classic sitcoms.

You're referring to Full House and Fresh Prince that you should've specified. And since new generation fans don't know much about 90s classic sitcoms.


They finding out about them now:lol:

^ Seriously? Nobody cares

^ Seriously? Nobody cares


Kill yourself

I was just kidding

I was just kidding


well put lol next time

Whatever :rolleyes:

But you are way too uptight. You need to lighten up dude

Kill yourself

I'd rather not at least I have things to live for and actual values

I hope you get BANNED

I hope you get BANNED
Why are you being mean to him? It's only referencing that Full House and Fresh Prince that even new generations born after 2005 don't know these.

I hope you get BANNED


I'm not going anywhere

Why are you being mean to him? It's only referencing that Full House and Fresh Prince that even new generations born after 2005 don't know these.

He told me to kill myself! And I am not being mean

TVFactFan always says those stupid things like "log out", "Kill yourself", "cancel your internet service". whatever he says threatening, he's very stupid person to say those when he gets more upset and wild.

You're right, you're not mean. I'm sorry I said that "why being mean". I would leave him alone.


Die

:happyface :lol: :lol:

Yeah, TVFactFan, you are hilarious. Just kidding you need to lighten up and stop threatening people.

Tenter, stop reporting posts. You're reporting posts from last week and reporting duplicate posts. You're abusing the system. Stop it immediately.

Tenter, stop reporting posts. You're reporting posts from last week and reporting duplicate posts. You're abusing the system. Stop it immediately.
i wasn't trying to abuse system. i was only reporting one same user for those warnings though same continued action continues

i wasn't trying to abuse system. i was only reporting one same user for those warnings though same continued action continues
You report way too much. Stop it.

http://www.adweek.com/news/television/will-return-unplugged-and-cribs-bring-millennials-back-mtv-170961

MTV announced 14 new shows today, four of which revolve around music, including a hip-hop competition (http://tvline.com/2016/04/21/mtv-orders-hip-hop-music-competition-mark-burnett-the-voice/) from Mark Burnett and a weekly music series with Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun. A reimagined Unplugged (http://deadline.com/2016/04/mtv-music-unplugged-reboot-mark-burnett-reality-competition-scooter-braun-live-1201741365/) will be brought back, as will a special version of Cribs for Snapchat (http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/mtv-cribs-snapchat-1201758169/).

Ya,all garbage.......... HIP HOP TRASH..... Not good like it as in the 80s!!

THEY WILL NOT GET ME WATCHING AGAIN!!!!!!!!

MTV Sets Jacqueline Parkes As CMO, Names Eli Lehrer To Oversee MTV2 (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/mtv-jacqueline-parkes-eli-lehrer-1201767286/)

What was a real crock was that MTV and VH1 remembered they were actual music channels, once upon a time, when Prince died. They showed actual videos and whatnot of him. You know it was a refreshing change showing actual videos, at, gasp, night!!:eek: