One hundred sixteen unique videos were played, spanning 209 spins over the first 24 hours; from the beginning, MTV used the rotation system and repeated popular videos throughout the day.

On this day in 1981, at exactly 12:01 am, MTV made its broadcast debut with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll." The MTV concept launched a cultural revolution, and its unexpected...

2016年8月1日 · MTV went on the air on this day 35 years ago, August 1, 1981. Click through the slideshow to see the first 10 songs played on the music channel. This is video of the moment MTV first...

2009年11月13日 · On August 1, 1981, MTV: Music Television goes on the air for the first time ever, with the words (spoken by one of MTV’s creators, John Lack): “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.”

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.

5 天之前 · MTV debuted just after midnight on August 1, 1981, with the broadcast of “ Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles. Following the format of Top 40 radio, video disc jockeys (or “veejays”) introduced videos and bantered about music news between clips. After an initial splash, the network struggled in its early years.

I do not own the rights to this video. It is owned by MTV. I am simply posting this for people to see how great MTV was and for you to see how it all started...

2014年12月31日 · MTV: The First Four Hours (12am Saturday, August 1, 1981) by MTV. Publication date 1981-08-01 Language English Item Size 1.2G . Note: Tape is edited. Many ad breaks are gone, one video has ""ORIGINAL SEGMENT MISSING"" overlaid, and we come out of a video and Mark names a different video. All spots for The Movie Channel seem to have the …

2011年11月6日 · MTV went on the air with those words, a minute after midnight on Aug. 1, 1981. The first video was, of course, "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles. Few people saw the fledgling...

2011年8月2日 · On August 1, 1981, MTV took to the U.S. air­waves, for­ev­er chang­ing the land­scape of Amer­i­can music and pop cul­ture. If you were around then, you’ll remem­ber the Apol­lo 11 moon land­ing, the astro­naut plant­i­ng the MTV flag on the moon’s sur­face, and then the first apt­ly picked video — the Bug­gles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”