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(August 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) 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).
August 12, 1981: IBM PC introduced August 306, 1981: Iran President Rajai, Premier Bahonar assassinated August 1, 1981: MTV cable network begins August 25, 1981: Voyager 2 reaches Saturn The following events occurred in August 1981 :
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 ...
was used to encourage cable subscribers to request the channel on their cable TV lineup. I Want My MTV chronicles MTV from its inception August 1, 1981 until 1992 when it broke away from the all-video format with the reality show The Real World. Over 400 artists, directors, and staff of MTV were interviewed.
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 doesn't play music anymore" is a complaint nearly as old as the network itself, as executives embraced more conventional programming to keep viewers engaged for longer than three minutes at a ...
August 28 Comedy Theater: 1981 August 29 Eight is Enough: 1977 September 1 CBN Satellite Service: September 11 Peanuts (cancellation not announced by CBS until July 12 1983; returned in 2023) 1969 October 23 Card Sharks (returned in 1986) 1978 October 24 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (returned in 1984) 1972 October 31 Super Friends (returned in ...
The premise was that Lawther's character, Chuck the Security Guard, was the overnight security guard for CFMT (which at that time was branding itself as "MTV", prior to the introduction of the American music channel MTV). With very little to do on the overnight shift, every night Chuck -- with the help of his friends Ryerson and P.B. -- would ...