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They should drop de L change the name to "Total Rigged Request"

Well we all knew it anyways but the ratings havent gone down THAT much really.

Im not very surpirised. they will lose more and more audience, and then it will be canceled .

some of u seem to be overeacting... viewers are gonna go down because its not live? gimme a break.
and you guys seem to just want the show to end but at the same time you dont, if that makes any sense...it's like youre afraid of it ending so you just keep saying "its getting cancelled" to ease the pain or whatever.
I dont know, thats what it sounds like.
Only way this really bothers me is that now i cant go stand outside on a tuesday or thursday :-(.

I've already said this before, but I wish people would stop bitching about 'the voting being rigged'. Its really starting to piss me off majorly.
1. What would be the point of rigging the votes?
2. Does anyone ACTUALLY have any hard proof of this 'rigging'.
3. Wouldnt it just be more trouble to come up with new countdowns everyday than to go by votes? TRL is lazy, everyone knows this, so why would they make it HARDER on themselves?

Someone please answer me this.

As far as rigging votes goes, there have only been several occassions.

98° had a video called "My Everything" reach its 60th day [back when retirement was 65 days] and it was taken off the voting list the day after [when it fell off]. I consider that rigging, in a way; people were obviously still voting for it and wanted it to have 5 more days on to retire. Most recently this happened to Panic! At the Disco's "Lying..." which never debuted, but was On Deck for 14 days [as far as we know, I'm sure its total was like 20-something].
Eminem's "Mockingbird" falling 8+ spots from #8, seemed kind of fishy to me.

There have been many other times where they would remove a video from the votinglist while it was still getting votes. Evanescence, "Lithium", is another recent one that was given the shaft.
And of course, the biggest travesty which was adding in audience member votes back on September 18th, 2000 which threw off a lot of rock videos, several which were on their way to retirement [Korn, "Somebody Someone" and P.O.D., "Rock the Party"] or had potential to be retired in the future [Orgy, "Fiction" and Papa Roach, "Broken Home"].

Not sure if this would be considered rigging, but it is definitely unfair treatment: Orgy's "Blue Monday" and Mandy Moore's "Candy", as we all know, didn't have their retirement dates announced on their 61st [and final] days, which was what they used to do back then.

I don't believe they rig the votes every single day, though. I used to, but I'm over that already.

You do make some valid points. However, I still believe that there is a bit of over-reacting here. Panic's video never even debuted. Even though it was still on the On-Deck, it had been there for months. I really dont think there was any indication that it was ever going to debut, it had followed this same on the ON-Deck, off again for a good while. As for Eminem, I dont see why if a video can beat out every other video before it and debut at #1, it cant drop as many spots. I cant really say anything about the traditions of the older videos though, Im too young to have even seen them. So you may very well have something there. But I do think at least SOME of this was just lost interest by the mass voters in the videos.

TRL should be changed to 5pm

Every viewer voted countdown is rigged. It's not just trl. For example, on the vspot top 20 on vh1, there have been songs on the countdown for 19 weeks and suddenly drop off before they hit the 20 week retirement. As for it no longer being live, who really cares. It's not bothering me. They will not lose viewers at a faster rate than they are now. I also happen to agree with the last poster than 3:30 is a little too early for some people. It should be pushed to 5:00 (or at least 4:30). On another note, I hate mtv because trl happens to be the only music show on mtv during the day (this does not include before 9am). So in reality, I don't care at all about mtv and really don't care what happens to trl. I am just going on a rant for no particular reason. Fuse is way better.

Just trlinsider can tell Us if this is true or false!

The reason there's no TRL AWARDS this year....

Yea, so wasn't it already being taped?
Who cares if they switch it to a different day, it's not like they were counting your votes before anyway.
I can't believe people are so worked up about this.

TRT = Totally Rigged & Taped

They know that in all "TRL" in the world they are false? Really they are false in all the world

U+UR Hand SHould Be Added back to the list because it is getting some major spins on the radio

I don't actually watch the show anymore but this is common sense. Let's say you watch on Monday and then you see that your favorite video fell off. You vote for it to get it back on, but Tuesday's show is already taped, so there's no way it could come back the next day.
In fact, where did the votes for Tuesday's show come from in the first place? It's filmed on Monday, right after Monday's show, without a chance to collect a NEW set of votes. How can they possibly know what people are going to vote for in the future?

Hope they could bring it back LIVE.