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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 ...
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 66% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10 and the critical consensus: "It's sexist, juvenile, and dated, but Heavy Metal makes up for its flaws with eye-popping animation and a classic, smartly-used soundtrack." [16]
After leaving MTV in 1986, Jackson went back to radio, working for KROQ and KEDG in L.A, and returned to KLOS, the station he hosted for in his pre-MTV days. From 1995 to 2002, he hosted The ...
When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network that played them 24/7 appealed even to cynical Gen Xers. ... The post Review: Why Did MTV Stop Playing Music? appeared first on ...
[11] [12] When the cable music channel MTV launched on 1 August 1981, it had little choice but to play a large number of music videos from British new wave acts. [11] The Buggles' 1979 hit "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first music video shown on MTV in the U.S.
MTV went on the air August 1, 1981, at midnight in selected markets across America. Hunter was, by technical snafu, the first VJ to appear on screen, with the words "Hi, I'm Alan Hunter. I'll be with you right after Mark. We'll be covering the latest in music news, coast to coast, here on MTV Music Television."