MTV Original Broadcast 8/1/1981 

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Revelian1982 no itt stands for motley

It did. Then it stood for Money.

Legend has it, youtube actually had better people on this site.

I was there, young feller, and can tell you the legend is true. (Pans for gold, smokes chicory stick )

...what

MTV is no longer about music; now it's all garbage reality shows.

but aren't reality tv stars also technically video stars by definition?

By video star, I mean music video star. It's in reference to "video killed the radio star," which basically means that, because of the launch of MTV, music videos became the #1 way to discover music instead of the radio.

Even better is the fact that, upon the dawn of TV in the late 1940s, TV became the preferred viewing device instead of the radio. Why just listen to something happen when you can see it happen for yourself? The longing for convenience has been a part of humanity since the dawn of humanity.

Hehehe......I'm with ya!.😁

I turned 14 just over a month later. It was incredible.

Good taste no bad bands in that crowd

jo camble Today’s just too much autotune and too much techno and Kanye West saying the most hilarious bull$&@% statement on the planet:”Rap is the new Rock And Roll. We the Rockstars and I’m the biggest of all of them. I’m the number one Rockstar on the planet.”

@Digby Dooright these songs are played on the OLDIES station.

Same here. I really miss the concerts they showed on Saturday nights, and the interviews. And everything about it. The Golden Years of MTV.

SAME HERE. I miss it too

Why? cable TV is dead, everybody's always complaining for MTV to go back to this. That's why RU-vid exist so you can watch any video you want at any time you don't have to wait hours for your favorite video to play. And people don't understand that the bigger MTV got, the more money record labels were demanding for their video to be play on there, so it just became cheaper for MTV to produce their own shows, when you get shows like the real world and singled out and whatever else they did I don't remember. And I don't think people would want to hear 24 hours of the crap they have today. So it's a blessing that we don't have cardi b and Nicki Minaj shoved down our throat

@@no_stick_drummer2735 It is not the same. Instant gratification is THE THING now. MTV was a way to discover new music and when your video DID appear, it was worth the wait.

VHS or betamax

I recently found VOLUMES of vhs from late 80's early ninties ....it's mostly MTV with a bunch of football...and some ads too.

PEPE CUEVAS VHS but I don't have the tapes anymore. Sadly.

Tom R. I have a lot of VHS Tapes but I don´t have a VCR anymore.

as soon a s I convert them to digital, I will get them on here

How's MTV now? Lol

all music, all the time 📺 🎶 it's true

not only music...... back in the 80´s they even played good music...... offcourse, they broadcasted a lot of pop, but also a lot of Rock and Heavy Metal....... but then again, even pop music was much better back then......

Russ Guffee yeah, always loved how Dave Mustaine used to take piss out of Riki Rachtman all the time :D:D

😂

What's a VHS tape?

@Revenlian1982, a VHS tape is a tape that let's you record anything you want. This was before CD's ever existed.

I recorded 140 hours of it on 70 VHS Tapes and guess what, they still work perfectly!

@@ChatGPT1111 Can you upload those on RU-vid plss I never got to experience those moments I'm pretty sure you'll get a large amount of views too

Me too... we had a great president back then!

me to. no computers, cell phones apps people weren't lazy we had 5 record stores.

Jerome Cabral Me as well, miss them days.

Jerome Cabral - The 80s sucked.

So does your mom.

+TheEarlymtv NO reality show..... I miss that so much!

+TheEarlymtv The whole population of the Earth, all ~ 6.9 billion can fit in the Jacksonville City Limits!!! We are NOT overpopulated!!! We are under informed and Masonic Tele Vision helps spread the propaganda!!!

and don't forget gas was under a dollar.

In 1989 it was 30 -50 cent less than now!!!

+ true, they misrepresented the 80s

Mark, Alan, Martha and Nina are the 4 DJs on SiriusXM's 80s on 8 channel.

I really miss J.J. too- he was the cool elder statesman of MTV.

@@leelevingate Astronomically good-damned right. Triple-J was the primary spirit of MTV.

I hear that man im trying to learn everything i need to know about the 80s

Yeah hopefully YT doesn't turn into something completely unbearable tho.

It already has.

RU-vid ROCKS, BABY! EXCEPT THIS NEW FORMAT SUCKS. GOTTA SCROLL DOWN THROUGH THE NEXT VIDEOS JUST TO LOOK AT/WRITE COMMENTS.

@Kevin K Use Ublock Origin and you won't see them to be able to enjoy the 80's again without interruption. It's free for firefox, chrome, etc and works better than adblock. I used to have adblock, but started to notice youtube ads. With ublock they stay out.

Most of the great channels went to shit. It's all about trashy "reality" shows and angry left wing propaganda now.

Good one....and true

Cute, LOL!

damn right it sucks now

I used to love, love, love MTV. And yes, you are correct. Now MTV is just flat out suckass crap. They need to rename it Dumpster Fire TV.

well times have changed, the world has changed, a hell of a lot changes in 37 years!

Who even watches MTV now, and why the Hell would they?

Oh I don't know. I love being lectured because I am white.

So youre 60

Alex Probably Thanks but no thanks. Don't make me out to be any older than i am. Ya might wanna re-check your math lol ;-)

well then ....50....but that's just using years..we don't know the birth month...

Laurent Madrid DING DING DING We haaaaave a winner!! lol ;-)

lol

Nope. They excluded Famous Black Artists. Let's be clear! Even Elvis never excluded Blacks. MTV was racists and nobody called them out except Rick James and a few others. I respect those DJs as pioneers of a show format that is now automated. Sending them to Cleveland is a reach. They excluded EWF and Rick James for years on MTV. Nobody was bigger than those acts in 1981 on tours.

Giggidy Pop Hey, that was a HUGE deal back when MTV first came out. You had to have a stereo box from the cable company to tie in and receive MTV in true stereo sound to rout into your stereo unit. Otherwise it was just a mono signal split equally between the two speakers.

As if listening to music on tinny cheap phone speakers or manufacturer earbuds is better. Lolz.

At least most of the shows in the 1990's still emphasized rock music... I'm talking about shows like "Beavis and Butt-Head" and "Remote Control". The REAL beginning of the end of the traditional MTV was the reality show, "The Real World".

That's Because Ronald Reagan was President back then. Strictly an American Perspective.

That's because MTV signifies youthfulness. Getting older doesn't

MTV will be recognizing its 35th anniversary this August 1st by renaming VH1 Classic to MTV Classic. A good move in my eyes.

I can't believe it's been 35 years.

Well, it will turn 40 in a couple of weeks.

tonlo72 , I remember the sliding cable box, I believe it was tan in color..

Sounds like your dad might have been one of the inspirations for the 'I want my MTV!' ads or 'I want my Channel R!' lol. ;)

Will MTV even be around then?

Yes. It will.

We’re almost there...and you’re right

Hello its 2020

Lmao damn. If I were actually from 2020 5 years ago, I think I would have uploaded some crazy information rather than watching MTV

Who considers them credible?

And RU-vid killed MTV

Probably the best comment here

+Shari P Sure. And we didn't live under the constant threat of nuclear war.

FYI some of the reality show suck

" most " suck

Dan Turner The only show i watch is Ridiculousness the rest are crap to me.

+Demond Lemieux They realized that people don't turn on the TV and tune in to MTV to watch music videos anymore because of the convenience of the internet. The numbers don't pull anymore. Reality shows pull more people than music video watchers on TV.

your not the only one who watches ridiculousness.

ajs1031 MTV was amazing until the mid 90s. The end of 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps and MTV News (as its own show) signaled the end of an era. I was amazed that Kurt Loder (a former Rolling Stone magazine editor) was able to stay on as long as he did. I wish Kurt was still on the air somewhere.

FauxReal Actually it was kinda cool to have Yo! MTV Raps. It legitimized hiphop to mainstream America (not that it needed it really, but the show helped its growth). I will admit though that MTV had its peak in the 90s.

cqtaylor Yeah, every single one of the shows I mention was cool to have on MTV. The music shows I mentioned dug deep to find new good music in those genres. They weren't trying to create hits thin air by force feeding them to so much.

relicright4 months ago MTV 2014: "Welcome to MTV, the only tv station specifically titled "music television" that doesn't actually play music. Come enjoy all of the worst reality shows so you and your friends can comment and laugh about how stupid people are even though you live a very similar existence." A more aptly perfect descriptive explanation of why really good terrestrial broadcast radio does NOT exist en masse in 2014/15 has yet to be written!

Ant that the truth relicright I could not said it better my self.

Now,we need a new savior to save us from the failed messiah

Gemeral dis MTV does still show music videos mostly between 6 and 9 am, called AMTV. Its filler.

@Scott Luther I was just going to say, if you listen to 80s on 8, you can tell her voice was affected by her smoking habit back in the day.

That bitch.

Time didn't change, there's still plenty of music out there. MTV changed

@@slimbrouckske The times indeed have changed . I know, I was there.

The new MTV channel will be dedicated to the 90s stuff unfortunately. It's totall bull.

Hiraaku I don't wanna see The Hills, Punkd, Pimp My Ride, The Real World or the new reboot of Beavis And Butthead. I noticed that's some of the crap they're showing. I want it COMPLETELY authentic. As if we turned the tv on in the 80s and are watching MTV the way it was then. The shows I just mentioned are basically what lead to the travesty MTV has become.

+MadonnaDelRey U and me both.