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In 1979, executives at the newly formed Warner-American Express Satellite Entertainment Company felt teenagers were an overlooked and potentially lucrative audience, and hoped to develop a television format to target them. [2] MTV's original format was created by the executive Robert W. Pittman, later the president and CEO of MTV Networks. [3]
The primary variant of MTV's logo at the time had the "M" in yellow and the "TV" in red. However, unlike most television networks' logos at the time, the logo was constantly branded with different colors, patterns and images on a variety of station IDs. Examples include 1988's ID "Adam And Eve", where the "M" is an apple and the snake is the "TV".
MTV's Rock/d (2000) Carmen's Hypermix (2001) Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2001–02) Señor Moby's House of Music (2002) MTV Soul (2002) Prime Time Players (2002–2004) All Things Rock Countdown (2002–2005) Beat Seekers (2002) Album Launch (2002–03) MTV Hits (2002–2006) Advance Warning (2003–2005) Video Clash (2003–2005 ...
The MTV Generation refers to the adolescents and young adults of the 1980s to the mid-1990s, a time when many were influenced by the television channel MTV, which launched in 1981. [1]
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
Night Tracks is an American music video television program that aired on TBS in late night on Fridays and Saturdays [1] from June 3, 1983 to May 30, 1992. Created and produced by Thomas W. Lynch and Gary Biller through Night Tracks, Inc. (a production label of Lynch/Biller Productions until 1991, and successor Lynch Entertainment thereafter) and distributed by Turner Program Services, the ...
At the start of Solid Gold's first season (1980), Michael Miller was chosen by its first host, Dionne Warwick, to be the show's musical director. Miller stayed on for the entire series and composed the theme song for Solid Gold with Academy Award-winning songwriter Dean Pitchford providing the lyrics. The song, re-recorded various times to ...
Early American alternative bands such as R.E.M., The Feelies, and Violent Femmes combined punk influences with folk music and mainstream music influences. R.E.M. was the most immediately successful; its debut album, Murmur (1983), entered the Top 40 and spawned a number of jangle pop followers. [5]