The last ever Top of the Pops...

[Barrel of Fun]

Without wishing to make anyone feel old, my first memory of Top of the Pops was Shakin' Stevens singing Merry Xmas when I was the tender age of five.

Very sad that TOTPs has finished but it had it's day.

Thank you for the music

 

[London Irish]

I used to work for the German incarnation of VH1, essentially looking after the tape library.

I miss the days leading up to the frequent Hasselhoff specials and having to watch his videos over and again checking for technical faults.

I miss having a Frank Sinatra obituary sitting in my drawer months before the old crooner died.

I miss opening up the daily music news tape (which was flown in from Hamburg) after the Euro 96 defeat and finding a post it inside with the message "Ha, Ha we had you English Johnnies"

But most of all I miss them referring to Geri Halliwell as Gerry Adams throughout a Spice Girls special.

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

Meteoric rise?

June 2006 MTV UK share of viewing: 0.2%
VH1 share of viewing: 0.1%

August 1998 MTV UK share: 1.0%, VH1 UK share: 1.0%

Slow and painful death is a better term for them; as it is VH2 is closing imminently due to lack of viewers.

Also MTV has been around for over 20 years now, that is hardly a metoric rise, more a slow burn?

 

[Cian]

Also MTV has been around for over 20 years now, that is hardly a metoric rise, more a slow burn?

They've not helped it by launching 8 other channels in the UK either, but their total share now across all ten of them is significantly lower than the combined peak (1.8% for MTV I believe, and 1.4% for VH1) for just the two, with significantly increased running costs...

 

[Gwylan]

Sad for me: I remember the first ever edition of TOTP back in '64.

Wozza's right though, it surely went downhill when it moved from Thursdays - you were no-one at school the next day if you hadn't watched it. That and Monty Python were the 'must-watch' programmes of my childhood. Wonder what they are these days?

 

[Kenhead]

The problem was when they moved it from thursday to a friday night, as the majority of the shows audince is aimed at 16-25 year olds, and how many of that age group are out on a friday night? Thats why the viewing figures dropped! The beeb done the same to doctor who and started to move it in midweek and up against corination street, no wonder the ratings dropped. If top of the pops were ever to make a come back in 10 years time they should stick to the original and successful routine, of being on a thursday night and only showing acts that were in the top 20!
Last night proved the problem of music video's, the whole top 10 run down were clips of the music video's, and not a video of the acts preformance on totp aswell as the number one act the music video aswell!

 

[BUTTERBALL]

ToTP has been dead on it's feet for years. The glory days finished in the early 90's and it where broadcasting was it's strength appealing to the music masses, it is now only narrowcast as it really only appeals to die-hard fans. There is just so much alternative choice out there for music both on tv and online. The BBC should really have killed it off years ago.