When Grand Rapidians drive their American-built rust buckets home in the snow after a long afternoon distributing Amway products, they switch on GRD where they will hear the same five songs they heard on their way to work that morning drilled deep into their psyche once again. Real deep, meaningful, intelligent-like stuff. Next, they arrive home and immediately turn on that beacon of American culture, MTV, where once again they hear the same five songs they heard on the way to and from work. They need their daily MTV and GRD fix. Without MTV, GRD is all alone and there is a lot more to life than radio.
People have to watch TV too.
That's where MTV comes in. Lord knows GR residents rarely leave their houses for anything other than Griffins' games and Bob Dole rallies. It can't be the music. MTV stopped playing music about a decade ago. I lost track.