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MTV
(Music Television)
Launched: August 1, 1981
Owned by: MTV Networks (Viacom)
Also Owns: MTV2, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, mtvU, MTV Chi, MTV Desi, MTV K, MHD (High-def. Channel), VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Mega Hits, VH1 Soul, VH1 Uno, CMT, CMT Pure Country, Comedy Central, Logo, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon GAS, NickToons Network, Spike TV, Tempo, TV Land
Five Original VJs (Video Jockeys): Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson and Martha Quinn (All except J.J. Jackson, who died in 2004, became hosts on Sirius satellite radio.
- Originally the bulk of MTVs Music Videos where crude promotional or just concert clips.
- As MTV increased in popularity people executives of record producing companies began to see the potential in the Music Videos and thus began producing more.
- A Large Number of Rock bands where made household names because of MTV
- In 1984 the first MTV Video Music Awards were held.
- In 1985 MTV began to be criticized as overly commercial since it was a promotion on recording companies and artists
- Before 1987 MTV featured almost exclusively Music Videos
- In the late 1980s MTV came out with “A Week in Rock” which later lead to MTV News
- Around that time MTV also introduced a dance show called Club MTV
- Also, A Game Show called Remote Control
- By the second half of the 1990s MTV consisted of mostly non-music TV shows.
- In 1997, MTV was angridly criticized for not playing as many Music Videos as it used to
- In response, they created 4 shows that focused on Music Videos; MTV Live, Total Request, Say What?, and 12 Angry Viewers.