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In 2000, the Guinness World Records named "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the "Most Played Video" on MTV Europe. Rolling Stone placed the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number two on their 1993 list of "The 100 Top Music Videos". [46] MTV ranked the song's music video at number three on its "100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made" list in ...
In January 1987, MTV Networks Europe began recruiting VJs, and MTV Europe was planned to launch in the spring, but the launch was postponed to August. [5] The first auditions and filming took place in May. [6] On 1 August 1987 at 00:01 BST, MTV Europe started broadcasting, with British musician Elton John turning on the signal from Amsterdam ...
MTV 80s was the British version of the international music TV channel MTV 80s, which began broadcasting on 31 March 2022, replacing MTV Classic. It was first launched as a temporary rebrand of MTV Classic from 28 February to 31 March 2020. The channel broadcasts music from the 1980s. It was replaced by MTV 80's international feed in 2024.
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'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 ...
In the mid-1980s, Yleisradio, MTV, and Nokia began a joint venture to establish a pay television channel. [8] This project culminated in 1986 in the launch of a third nationwide channel, Kolmoskanava, which was however free-to-air. The channel mostly broadcast imports but some original shows were broadcast as well (albeit not produced by the ...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, MTV began cultivating a lifestyle for teen and college-aged students. As video clips started to develop certain images for artist, such as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, and New Kids on The Block, fashion and paraphernalia for these acts were also marketed along with the distribution of music. [7]
MTV.com in 2008. In the late 1980s, before the Internet, MTV VJ Adam Curry began experimenting online. In the 90's, he registered the then-unclaimed domain name "MTV.com" in 1993 with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Internet. Although this move was sanctioned by his supervisors at MTV Networks at the time, when Curry left to ...