Music Stars On Tv

[renegadefm]

Would it be fair to say music artists are a lot more absent on television these days compared to yesteryear, like the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's?

 

It seems growing up as a child of the 70's there was an abundance of music shows like Top Of The Pops for example. Some artists like Marc Bolan even had their own show, with a platform for more artists on there. 

I seem to remember Noel Edmands Swapshop had artists playing whatever was current at the time.

 

Why do we think then that music shows or related are so absent these days? 

[Mozz71]

How many current pop stars have personality enough to head up their own show like the old days?

Not many I would guess.

[renegadefm]

Mozz71, 

No I totally agree, not many to do that at all. 

 

But don't you agree compared to the 70's, 80's,  music is fairly absent these days. 

 

I just don't know how things have become like this. 

[Buenchico]

TV production companies simply haven't got the money to pay the massive sums that the stars of the music world would demand these days.  Ed Sheeran, for example, costs several million pounds to book for a single performance (and that's without the extra that his agent would want for the UK broadcasting rights).

In the 'good old days', the entertainments committee of the teacher training college I attended could book groups such as the Equals, Shaking Stevens, the Tremeloes, the Bay City Rollers and Mud (for our college balls) for very little money indeed.  So TV companies, with far bigger budgets, had no problem at all in booking them too.  

These days TV companies have far smaller budgets (due, in large part, to advertisers switching to using social media instead of TV commercials) at a time when leading musicians expect to receive the same sort of fees that they can get from touring.  That's why our TV screens are now filled with talent shows, such as Britain's Got Talent, which are cheap to make.