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MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel that launched on August 1, 1981 by Warner Communications. It is currently owned by Paramount Global, and is one of the company's flagship brands. MTV's original focus was on music-related programming, including blocks of music videos.
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel. It was officially launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.
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 ...
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 one of pop culture's great questions: Why did MTV, a cable network literally called "Music Television," stop playing music? When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network ...
MTV also helped invent a brand-new on-air gig: the video jockey, a.k.a. VJ, with five young, charismatic hosts who introduced videos and interviewed artists.
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 ...
The company's decision to lay off MTV staff and close the news unit comes amid heavy financial pressures on MTV's parent company, which reported last week that it had a net loss of $1.1 billion in ...