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Music News: The end of TRL: "Total Finale Live" 11/16/08
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AP Report, it's official:
RIP, TRL: `Total Request Live' ending in November
By ERIN CARLSON – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Start the countdown clock on MTV's countdown era: "Total Request Live" will soon shut down after 10 years on the air.
The music video show will conclude in a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon in November, Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of "TRL," said Monday. He stressed that the show wasn't ending for good, but felt now was the right time to give it a break after an unprecedented run on the cable music channel.
"We want to close this era of `TRL' in a big celebratory way, and 10 is a great number," Sirulnick said. "And 10 is the number that `TRL' counted down every single day for 10 years, and we hit this 10th (anniversary) and we thought, `You know what? This feels like the right time and let's celebrate it and let's reward it. And let's let it have a little bit of a rest for a minute.' Let it catch its breath! Been working hard — for 10 years!"
"TRL" debuted in September 1998 and became the splashy center of the teen pop music scene with Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and other acts. From its heydey until 2008, it's been a destination for musicians, movie stars and celebrities promoting their new music, movies and other projects.
Sirulnick said "TRL" — which airs weekday afternoons from MTV's Times Square studio — lost some luster as it aged. It peaked in 1999 with 757,000 viewers tuning in daily, according to Nielsen Media Research.
"It becomes more of a mainstay and more of an institution than — pardon the pun — the new kid on the block," Sirulnick said.
For the finale, Sirulnick said he hopes to celebrate with many of the "folks who helped make `TRL' what it is — whether that's Justin (Timberlake) and his guys in N'Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney, Eminem — I think we would love to see all of them here." That includes former host Carson Daly.
In a statement, Eminem said: "I'm going to miss `TRL.' ... Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait ... The VMAs!"
MTV found a replacement of sorts with "FNMTV." The show debuted over the summer in a 15-episode run hosted by Pete Wentz, bassist for rock band Fall Out Boy. Taped in Los Angeles, it aired Friday nights and televised exclusive music videos and performances by such diverse acts as Slipknot and the Jonas Brothers.
MTV said it was bringing "FNMTV" back for another run in mid-November. Like last time, there will be no video countdown with the 10 viewer favorites.
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106th and Park Wins. Flawless Victory.
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106th and Park Wins. Flawless Victory.
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It might be better than TRL but it is still irrelevant.
Also if it is over what was the point of brandy debuting her video on there
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I hope that hey at least have a good finale, I would like to see all the old VJ's at the finale & big music stars
they should do a special music countdown
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Originally posted by Fireman25
I hope that hey at least have a good finale, I would like to see all the old VJ's at the finale & big music stars
they should do a special music countdown
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Lmao this will be the first time in months that I will watch the show
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^ LMAO!!! yeah same here, I've been a long time TRL fan & I found this forum because of TRL, but ever since the new format I have not watched this show, but I want to see the finale
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Originally posted by BEYONCESGiirl
It might be better than TRL but it is still irrelevant.
Also if it is over what was the point of brandy debuting her video on there
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I've said time and time again that they're both irrelevant. Don't try and get me together miss thing, or your lacefront will suffer the same fate as Tierra's.
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Originally posted by Fireman25
^ LMAO!!! yeah same here, I've been a long time TRL fan & I found this forum because of TRL, but ever since the new format I have not watched this show, but I want to see the finale
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I hated the format to I think the best years were 1998-2004 2005-207 were alright but 2008 was just terrible because of the new format
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I've said time and time again that they're both irrelevant. Don't try and get me together miss thing, or your lacefront will suffer the same fate as Tierra's.
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Im nothing like Tierra im Asia Live it Learn it Love it
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Im nothing like Tierra im Asia Live it Learn it Love it
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LOL! but you do remind me of Tierra
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LOL! but you do remind me of Tierra
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How so?
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Yes, about time that sh!tty countdown gets taken out.
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I hope Britney will be there before the show ends.
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Im nothing like Tierra im Asia Live it Learn it Love it
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Now you're nothing. You girls will learn one day.
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Now you're nothing. You girls will learn one day.
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Lmao
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I used to watch the show religously until they ******* with the system back last October. TRL may have started, but slowly declined back when TRL cut back from 5 days to 4 on a regular basis in 2005. But when 2007 came along, TRL was really starting to feel more like a rigged countdown than a real one... and that's when crap rap took over the show, bumping Rock and the show's once-lead genre, Pop, to the sidelines-- and especially moreso after they tinkered with the format. I had quit watching TRL live since the beginning of the year. 2008, TRL's worst year yet, went into the rudder and kept going down it, and it may have been the right time to cancel this cesspool show. This was planned out by John "Crudshit" Norris (who should be fired and/or in prison), Damien Fahey, and the MTV execs ever since Fall 2006.
VH1 Top 20 and MM Top 30 are the real countdown shows left on TV. 106 and Park kinda seems rigged, but not as bad TRL was. This puts me out of a daily recap job, except to fill in sometimes at 106 and post every week on MM Top 30, Subterranean, and MTV2's SRTD, and rotating with Brandon every other week on the VH1 Top 20.
The lone good area of MTV is its News Division, and that has deteriorated ever since SuChin Pak left. Although MTV News is in decline, it is still better than the rest of MTV combined.
I am watching the TRL finale.
Some TRL Daily Finale Facts
Final #1: T.I., Whatever U Like
Final TRL Premieres: Ne-Yo, Miss Independent
One Block Radius, You Got Me
Final MTV News Reporter to be on TRL: Tim Kash
Final TRL recapper: JGibson
MTV News Correspondents Reporting Stats Recap (September 2008-Cancellation):
Kim Stolz: 1 | 40 [WINNER]
Tim Kash: 2 | 39
Sway Calloway: 1 | 21
John Norris: 1| 16
Jim Cantiello: 3 | 3
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. A part of my childhood just died. I remember I started a petition to end it in '04, but damn. Its really over.
The last episode should include viewers 100 favorite videos to grace the countdown EVER, and end with Carson Daly blowing up the set.
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I remember when I used to obsess over this show. At this point I don't think I would have even liked it back then if it was the way it is now (confusing sentence alert!)
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If they did the countdown of the favorite 100 videos ever, they'd somehow rigg it.
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