{"id":211613,"date":"2026-01-01T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:17:17","slug":"mtv-is-officially-dead-how-the-video-killed-the-radio-star-prophecy-finally-came-full-circle-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211613\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV Is Officially Dead – “How The ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ Prophecy Finally Came Full Circle” (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guitar Meets Science<\/a> has shared a new mini-documentary. Check it out below:<\/p>\n

\u201cDecember 31, 2025, marks the official death of the empire that invented modern cool. Paramount Global has pulled the plug on the music channels that defined a generation, from the excess of the \u201980s to the grunge revolution of the \u201990s. We explore the rise and fall of the network that once dictated the planet\u2019s soundtrack, how reality TV like The Real World became a cheaper drug than rock and roll, and how the \u2018Video Killed The Radio Star\u2019 prophecy finally came full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOld school MTV viewers probably recall that for a spell back in the \u201990s, at the conclusion of each MTV news segment \u2013 which, if memory serves correctly, ran ten minutes before the top of every hour \u2013 a snippet of a certain memorable bassline could be heard,\u201d says author Greg Prato, reporting for Ultimate-Guitar.com<\/a>. \u201cAnd which bassline was it? The beginning of Megadeth\u2019s thrash anthem, \u2018Peace Sells.\u2019<\/p>\n

Some have assumed that Dave Mustaine, the writer of that riff and tune, received royalties for MTV\u2019s usage. But as I explained during an appearance on the Booked On Rock Podcast (see below) in support of my book, The World\u2019s State-Of-The-Art Speed Metal Band: The Megadeth Story 1983-2002, this was not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe talk about it in the book,\u201d I said. \u201cI asked Dave Mustaine, \u2018So, have you ever seen any money from that?\u2019 He said, \u2018Not a penny.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause MTV, what they realized is if you play something for\u2026I\u2019m just making up a number, but say for four seconds, you don\u2019t have to pay if it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exact quote from Mustaine, from an interview I conducted with him for Rolling Stone, was \u201cThey didn\u2019t give me a penny. They cut it off right before they\u2019d have to pay me, which was very clever. I don\u2019t think anybody with a conscience at MTV did that \u2013 it was probably somebody in their legal department.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at Ultimate-Guitar.com<\/a>. Order Greg Prato\u2019s The World\u2019s State-Of-The-Art Speed Metal Band: The Megadeth Story 1983-2002 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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