Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of the first music videos broadcast on MTV's first day, August 1, 1981. 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] Initially, MTV showed music videos 24 hours a day. The very first selection was "Video Killed the Radio Star" from Buggles. Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" was the second. [2] When it launched, MTV reached 800,000 subscribers and cable television was still in only 25% of American homes. [3]
On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time, [7] [8] MTV was launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll", spoken by John Lack and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia (which took place earlier that year) and the launch of Apollo 11.
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
It’s impossible to overstate the impact MTV had when it launched in 1981. The bold new cable station captured the zeitgeist, putting the new medium of music videos at the forefront of pop culture.
MTV's first logo, used from August 1, 1981, to May 31, 1994 MTV's second logo, used from May 31, 1994, to April 12, 2009. It was still used outside United States until July 1, 2011. One of many MTV station IDs used during the 1980s; this one was designed by Henry Selick.
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.
"25 yrs ago today, before Instagram, TikTok & Facebook there was TRL," Daly wrote on Instagram. "The 1st truly interactive, fan driven show on tv. It was my home for some of the best years of my life.