TV & VIDEO - Jan. 15, 1990

Cable Company Drops MTV: A cable television company in South Dakota has deleted the MTV music video channel because of complaints about offensive videos, the company manager said. “I don’t know if it was an organized effort or people just decided to call at the same time, but we got a large number of requests all of a sudden from these areas to remove the service,” said Doug Bierschbach, manager of Satellite Cable TV Systems. Last month, the company stopped offering MTV in Parkston or Freeman, towns of about 1,300 each. MTV was replaced by the Discovery Channel. Bierschbach said his office has since received about a dozen complaints from young viewers.