Music isn't on MTV anymore (Score 2, Insightful)

I grew up in the 80's and 90's when MTV's focus was music and music videos. If they weren't playing a video, they were playing something about a band or the music. They promoted new artists all the time. This is where I heard of all the new artists, along with a lot of other people. MTV was on basic cable, so just about everyone with cable got it. This was great promotion for the record companies. In the last decade (maybe more) MTV started to focus on reality tv. Some has been entertaining, but the more they focused on this, the less people found out about new music. Sure, they'll play videos on their other stations, but not too many people get those. The record companies seem to have lost a great source for promoting new artist. Your local clear channel station is not going to take a chance on a new artist/band like Arcade Fire or LCD Soundsystem.