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During MTV's first few years, very few black artists were featured. ... MTV Choose or Lose logo. In 1992, MTV started a pro-democracy campaign called Choose or Lose, ...
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 ...
MTV created four shows in the late 1990s that centered on music videos: MTV Live, Total Request, Say What?, and 12 Angry Viewers. [citation needed] A year later, in 1998, MTV merged Total Request and MTV Live into a live daily top 10 countdown show, Total Request Live, which became known as TRL. The original host was Carson Daly. [56]
Two months before MTV started, I went in for my series of repeatedly worse auditions, three or four in a row. They kept calling me back, for some reason. ... I have said for years that MTV was the ...
Mark Goodman came to MTV as a seasoned radio host, having started his career with Philadelphia’s WMMR in 1978. He then moved to New York, where he became a host for WPLJ in 1980, but just a year ...
When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network that played them 24/7 appealed even to cynical Gen Xers. But the format wasn't conducive to setting competitive ad rates: The ...
The Year in Rock (1985–1999) MTV Spring Break (1986–2014, 2019) Camp MTV (1989) MTV Rock N' Jock (1990–2004) MTV Beach House (1993–1996, 2003)
1 Channel was originally launched under Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment and tested as Sight on Sound until 1981, when it officially launched as MTV. 2 Channel started as Ha!, merged with Time Warner's The Comedy Channel the following year, became entirely owned by Viacom in 2003.