2006-08-15 13:00:35 · 7 answers · asked by bellanycole 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
THE DEBUT: August 1, 1981. The first video? The slyly prophetic "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. Only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it. Sometimes the screen would go black when someone at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR. Within a few years, millions of kids demanded their parents buy cable so they could see MTV. Along with CNN, it led TV's transition out of the three-channel world. "This was the fuse that lit the cable explosion," said Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/01/mtv.at.25.ap/index.html
2006-08-15 13:20:51 · answer #1 · answered by Myke BoDean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1981
2006-08-15 20:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by Rachel O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1982
2006-08-15 20:05:31 · answer #3 · answered by Teri D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1981 or 82.
2006-08-15 20:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by rachelframecory 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1981 the first video they played was
Video Killed the Radio Star.
2006-08-15 20:09:53 · answer #5 · answered by tlctreecare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was around 1982.
2006-08-19 17:18:47 · answer #6 · answered by chris m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're celebrating their 25th year. Do the math.
2006-08-15 20:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Casper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋