I have some reasons why TRL is losing some ****.
First of all, it's not about the music anymore. It's all about the interviews, TV shows, and the movies.
Second of all, there are pretty much no more special TRL days anymore. They're all just regular Top 10's and if I'm lucky, there's an On Deck area shown. There should be more Top 20's, On Deck should be shown most of the time, and there should actually be special countdowns once in a while. The closest thing to the special countdowns is the Christina Aguilera countdown and the Beyonce countdown. After that, they didn't do ****. They should've done the end of the year countdown instead of sponsoring some crappy one that has nothing to do with TRL runs.
Third of all, there's pretty much no more variety on TRL anymore. Remember August when there would be pretty much 9 pop songs on the countdown? That was pretty messed up. Eminem never being able to retire pretty much tells me that rap will never do well on the c/d in the future.
So, I could pretty much care less if TRL dies or not. It's got it's ups and downs, but if it gets replaced by a better c/d show, then I'll be happy.