You cannot flip through the television dial without hitting an episode of Will & Grace, Golden Girls, Law & Order, CSI, Friends, or Fraiser. That is because these shows have syndicated themselves into oversaturation; there is no escaping their broadcasts, because they are broadcast all the time.

MTV also latched on to this concept, airing marathon sessions of its endless reality series whenever there was a gap in its four-figure-budget programming.

And now, it will do it with music videos. Funny, because it's been years since you could attach "MTV" to "music videos."

The network's ridiculously titled FNMTV — a Friday night block of music vids and talking heads making comments about them — is re-airing the same videos some half dozen times in its three-hour window. It's MTV Networks' entertainment chief Brian Graden's idea, who wants to take some market share away from YouTube as the birth place for artist buzz.

So what does that leave us with? Oh, just that the one place MTV actually airs videos will be stuffed with repeats.

[NYP]