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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).
Despite targeted efforts to play certain types of music videos in limited rotation, MTV greatly reduced its overall rotation of music videos by the mid-2000s. [50] A 10pm programming block for top shows and specials was created and called the 10 Spot.
In 1984, the channel produced its first MTV Video Music Awards show, or VMAs. The first award show, in 1984, was punctuated by a live performance by Madonna of "Like a Virgin". The statuettes that are handed out at the Video Music Awards are of the MTV moonman, the channel's original image from its first broadcast in 1981. As of 2012, the Video ...
Forty years ago, the idea for the VMAs — which will take place at the UBS Arena in Elmont, NY on Wednesday — came about as a way for MTV to claim its territory as the home of music video.
Robert Pittman [1] [2] - Pittman was the CEO of MTV Networks and the cofounder and programmer who led the team that created MTV. [3] At MTV, he oversaw the creation and growth of MTV and the transition of Nickelodeon from a failing network geared to preschoolers to the highest rated channel aimed at older kids as well as overseeing the launches of VH-1 and Nick at Nite, and led the initial ...
The post The 40 Greatest Music Video Artists appeared first on SPIN. ... as four different Split Enz videos aired in MTV’s first 24 hours of programming on Aug. 1, 1981. 36. Kate Bush
In 1980, he had a role in the music video for David Bowie’s “Fashion” a year before MTV launched. After a chance meeting with MTV’s CEO, he became a VJ, and stayed with the channel until 1987.
He created one of the first American television programs dedicated to music videos, PopClips, which aired on Nickelodeon in 1980, and was soon after approached to help develop the MTV network, though he declined. Nesmith was also an executive producer of the film Repo Man (1984).