I disagree that 'the current music scene is embarassing'.
Having said that, I barely ever listen to the radio, and cant remember the last time i watched a music program on TV (FOXtel included). This is because i quite simply cant stand 99.9% of what i would hear if i did.
However, there are armies of young teenagers (teeny-boppers if u like) that would shoot me on sight for 'dissing' their favourite pop tracks. Allot of people thoroughly enjoy pop music and other random shit associated with the public music scene, and I fail to find it surprising that the industry has gone the way it is.
Come to think of it, if MTV and channel V did ditch 'pop' music and associated shit, what else would they have to play? What could they sell if they played nonstop hard or psy trance? I'd watch their channel, but there would be fuck all chance of me participating or spending money on any of thier stupid shams. The only people willing to spend that sort of time and effort are teenagers - and thus the MTV and Channel V producers say -
"fill my airtime with that cheap, commercial shit that the teeny boppers love so much, cos we gotta get our money from somewhere and no other group will spend so much time and money on our channel."
This said, I think they go a bit far playing RnB, I mean, they dont wanna scare off the tenny boppers do they???

- j/k