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From February 28 to March 31, 2020, MTV 80s was broadcast for one month as a themed alternative to its host channel, MTV Classic UK, but was not planned as a full-time replacement. From June 31, 2020, until October 5, 2020, VH1 Classic Europe broadcast a block of MTV 80s programming from midnight until midday as a test bed for what would ...
MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel that launched on August 1, 1981 by Warner Communications. It is currently owned by Paramount Global, and is one of the company's flagship brands. MTV's original focus was on music-related programming, including blocks of music videos.
MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel dedicated to music, music industry and history in the United States upon its founding in 1981. MTV Networks has since produced various original television shows, many of which concern genres unrelated to music.
MTV in its ‘80s heyday was kind of like the epicenter of all things entertainment in a way — people would just drop by, like Andy Warhol with Simon and Nick from Duran Duran.
MTV also helped invent a brand-new on-air gig: the video jockey, a.k.a. VJ, with five young, charismatic hosts who introduced videos and interviewed artists. ... The '80s Game With Martha Quinn ...
MTV's first day on the air was rebroadcast on VH1 Classic in 2006 and again in 2011 (the latter celebrating the channel's 30th anniversary). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first hour on the air was broadcast again on August 1, 2016, and was called MTV Hour One, as part of VH1 Classic's planned re-launch as MTV Classic, MTV itself, and additionally streamed on ...
Initially, they were nothing more than on-air personalities, but as the popularity of MTV grew, they began to branch out past just introducing music clips. Soon, they were considered by many to be full-fledged music journalists , interviewing major music celebrities and hosting their own television shows on the channel.
The advent of YouTube put virtually every music video in history at your fingertips, making MTV—so radically inventive just a generation earlier—as obsolete as FM radio.