Empty-Vee

English Alternative forms eMpTyV, Empty Vee, empty-vee, Empty-V, Emptyv, EmptyV, eMpTy V Etymology A pun on MTV originally "Music Television"; American cable television channel and en empty; from a belief that the channel's programming is vacuous. Pronunciation /ˌɛmpˌtiːˈviː/ /ˌɛmˌtiːˈviː/ en iː Proper noun Empty-en vee Vee v en dated slang chiefly US humorous derogatory A nickname for Music Television MTV American cable television channel. from 1980s 1985 August w:James Wolcott Mixed Media 48 8 15 Like “We Are the World,” it too would end up as a video on Empty-Vee (MTV). en 1994 w:David B. Feinberg Queer and Loathing New York, N.Y. Viking (publisher) Viking 0-670-85766-1 18 Meanwhile, the youth of America sit glazed in front of empty-vee watching Monkees reruns. en 1996 Jack Banks Monopoly Television: MTV's Quest To Control The Music Boulder, CO w:Westview Press 206 These clips often break the clichés and formulas of typical videos on “Empty-Vee” as some call [MTV], by using the form of music video in unexpected, provocative ways 0-8133-1821-1 en 1999 Tom Minarchick Record Reviews Jersey Beat 65 zine Weehawken, NJ Jim Testa 61204132 unnumbered page 2 Not the kind of rock that you hear on the radio or see on eMpTyV en 2006 anonymous Rue the Day III (Carpe Diem) Painfully Awkward 978-0979247705 Volume Publishing 166 “Am I on that stupid Empty Vee show, the one where the brain dead former male model plays tricks on his rich and vapid celebrity friends?” en en Nicknames