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Video Vibrations was a 4-hour-long daily video block that showcased popular music videos. It was one of BET's early video shows. The show aired October 1, 1984 until 1997, [1] when it was changed to Vibrations. It was developed to appeal to black audiences and show a wider array of black music than MTV or other networks at the time. [2] [3]
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 14, 1984. The inaugural ceremony honored the best music videos released between May 2, 1983 and May 2, 1984, and was hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City .
At the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards the video for "Radio Ga Ga" would receive a Best Art Direction nomination. [16] Roger Taylor was quoted: That's part of what the song's about, really. The fact that they [music videos] seem to be taking over almost from the aural side, the visual side seems to be almost more important. [17]
MTV first premiered a new music video programming block called FNMTV, and a weekly special event called FNMTV Premieres, hosted from Los Angeles by Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy, which was designed to premiere new music videos and have viewers provide instantaneous feedback. [78] AMTV, an early morning block, debuted in 2009. [79]
Where it once showed only music videos, MTV now airs almost nothing but unscripted shows about internet videos. The reason, as the podcast finds, is simple: because that's what people will watch.
Friday Night Videos is an American music video/variety program that aired from July 29, 1983, to May 24, 2002, on NBC.Originally developed as an attempt by the network to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos, which had been brought into the mainstream by MTV during the early 1980s, [1] the program shifted over to a general music focus in 1990, mixing in live music performances ...
The BBC places a total ban on the record at about the same time. [2] January 17 – The SING BLUE SILVER tour continues on to Japan and North America as Duran Duran becomes the first act to utilize live video cameras and screens in their show. They break every existing merchandise record during this tour.
"Let the Music Play" Shannon: 50 "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson: 51 "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" Billy Ocean: 52 "That's All" Genesis: 53 "Running with the Night" Lionel Richie: 54 "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" Elton John: 55 "I Want a New Drug" Huey Lewis and the News: 56 "Islands in the Stream ...