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Here in Sarasota, in a particularly wealthy and ultra-white part of town,
the residents complained so about having BET on their cable grid, that Comcast cable actually took it off in that section of town. So, BET is no longer available there.
Not really...You mentioned that it was an "ultra-white" section o f town, so why should that cable carry it?
Also, took a quick sneak peek at the schedule; I was curious if the channel was as bad as it was sounding. The basic problem, if I'm reading it right, is that it depends a lot on repeats, and the programming is more stereotypical than it really should be. t looks like, rather than looking for the best and programming some great stuff, it panders to some sort of supposed "hip hop" crowd, without allowing that that particular crowd doesn't watch a lot of TV.
In essence, it's hard to not see why it's considered a joke station...
Noah's Arc was an okay show the guys was way too femme for me. I wanted to smack Noah for cheating on that cute guy. And the acting seem pretty cheesy
BET would never air that show it has too much light sex on it. And black people are way more homophobic then white people. Bad enough they have a Christian how that bashes gays . That show is better suited for mtv at night
>>>In MTV's first six months on the air, they had a library of 700 music videos, and less than 40 of them were of black artists. Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Prince (probably not as much, since in those days his music was more rock-oriented), Rick James and Sheila E. all had trouble getting their videos to run in those early days...
I've written about this in another thread, but I don't mind repeating myself (obviously). And I'd like to think I'm qualified to weigh in, since I actually WATCHED MTV back then.
MTV's programming choices in their first 16 months (!!) had less to do with overt racism than with availability and audience. Most music videos that were available when the network signed on on August 1st 1981 were by British new wave and/or post-punk artists. Since that's what they had, that's what they played. They had a bunch of Rod Stewart clips, some Pat Benatar, and what have you, but a lot of the bands (PhD?) were bands that Americans never had any exposure to.
As the months went on, the station became known basically for playing this sort of thing. My brother and I excitedly watched MTV whenever we could to see music videos by bands like Duran Duran, at a time when no radio station was playing them in America. (This was before "Hungry Like the Wolf" broke them open a year or so later.) And we, and other people like us, ended up being the audience. Suburban kids, mainly - remember, cable was almost exclusively a suburban phenomenon back then. The station stopped playing so much Rod Stewart, and focused instead on the new wave/post-punk bands.
And, it should be pointed out, there WERE black artists being played on MTV during this time. They just were black artists that fit the new wave/post-punk format. I distinctly remember watching videos by the Specials and Busboys during this time, for instance, and enjoying them just as much as any thing else we saw.
When Michael Jackson came along, MTV didn't refuse to play him because he was black. They refused to play him because he was disco/R&B/pop. I wasn't what they were playing. It'd be like expecting a country radio station to play a soul song, or vice versa. CBS was astute enough to see that "Billie Jean" was going to open up a lot of doors, both for Michael AND for MTV, so they threatened a boycott.
Similarly, when MTV refused to play rap videos in the late 80s, it was the same idea. Their bread and butter was hair metal. Why would White Lion fans want to see Ice Cube, or even MC Hammer? Was it racism? I don't think so. The station also confined Nirvana to the "Headbanger's Ball" heavy metal show, assuming that the band was too punk for their mainstream audience. Not racist so much as too narrow in their choice of musical selections.
Do I think they should? Of course not.
Do I think they will? Of course not.
Do I think there are people who will use said refusal as ample proof as to BET's "blatant homophobia"? Of course.
