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On August 1, 2016, in honor of MTV's 35th anniversary, the channel was rebranded as "MTV Classic", and now exclusively displays music videos from all genres from the 1980s to the early 2000s. As of December 2019, MTV Classic is available to approximately 39,000,000 pay television households in the United States. [1]
The 1988 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 7, 1988, from the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. [1] Hosted by Arsenio Hall , [ 1 ] the show honored the best music videos released between May 2, 1987 and April 1, 1988.
Behind the Music Playlist: 2021 Boo, B....! Get Out the Way: 2017 Classic Christmas: 2018–2019 Countdown to Jersey Shore Family Vacation: 2018 Countdown to TRL: 2017 Lunch Break / TRL Recap: 2017–18 Tribute Playlist: 2016–2019 VH1 Hip Hop Honors Playlist: 2017–2019 VMA Performer Spotlight/Nominees Playlist: 2018–2019 VMA Video ...
Friday Night Video Fights (1982–1986) I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge (1983–1987) MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1984–1998) Heavy Metal Mania (1985–1986) New Video Hour (1985–1988) 120 Minutes (1986–2000, moved to MTV2) Dial MTV (1986–1991) Friday Night Party Zone (1986–1987) International Hour (1986–1987) Metal Shop (1986)
Yo! MTV Raps is an American two-hour television music video program, which first aired on MTV Europe from 1987 to mid-90s and on MTV US from August 1988 to August 1995. The American version of the program (created by Ted Demme and Peter Dougherty) was the first hip hop music show on the network, and was based on the original MTV Europe show, which first aired one year before the American version.
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the Super Bowl for youth, an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony's ability to draw ...
While music videos were featured on MTV up to eight hours per day in 2000, the year 2008 saw an average of just three hours of music videos per day on MTV. It's been speculated that the rise of social media and websites like YouTube as an outlet for the promotion and viewing of music videos led to this reduction. [ 74 ]
ABC's contribution to the music video program genre in 1984, ABC Rocks, was far less successful, lasting only a year. [69] TBS founder Ted Turner started the Cable Music Channel in 1984, designed to play a broader mix of music videos than MTV's rock format allowed. But after one month as a money-losing venture, Turner sold it to MTV, who ...