"Empty-Vee" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985 August, James Wolcott, “Mixed Media”, in Tina Brown, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 48, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:",
          "text": "Like “We Are the World,” it too would end up as a video on Empty-Vee (MTV).",
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          "ref": "1994, David B. Feinberg, Queer and Loathing, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, the youth of America sit glazed in front of empty-vee watching Monkees reruns.",
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          "ref": "1996, Jack Banks, Monopoly Television: MTV's Quest To Control The Music, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 206:",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "1999, Tom Minarchick, quotee, “Record Reviews”, in Jersey Beat, number 65 (zine), Weehawken, NJ: Jim Testa, →OCLC, unnumbered page, column 2:",
          "text": "Not the kind of rock that you hear on the radio or see on eMpTyV",
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          "ref": "2006, anonymous author, “Rue the Day III (Carpe Diem)”, in Painfully Awkward, Volume Publishing, →ISBN, page 166:",
          "text": "“[…]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?”",
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