Good for the week though! Yes its to relive what MTV was from the 1980's to the early 2000's when MTV really did air music.
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WXPN To Celebrate MTV Week In Honor Of Network’s 40th Anniversary
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Good for the week though! Yes its to relive what MTV was from the 1980's to the early 2000's when MTV really did air music.
The River in Boston is also celebrating MTV. The funny part is you go to MTV.com, and there's no mention. Only that the VMAs are happening next month, and it's the 40th anniversary of the VMAs:
www.mtv.com
But of course MTV is not what it was 40 years ago, and doesn't have the impact it did then. Very little does.
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But of course MTV is not what it was 40 years ago, and doesn't have the impact it did then. Very little does.
True and also whenever we bring up who has an influence on the Music industry today it's either the labels, Iheart sponsoring concerts, trending on YouTube, Spotify, or Tik Tok in the past decade.The River in Boston is also celebrating MTV. The funny part is you go to MTV.com, and there's no mention. Only that the VMAs are happening next month, and it's the 40th anniversary of the VMAs:
special events
But of course MTV is not what it was 40 years ago, and doesn't have the impact it did then. Very little does.
MTV was influential in music from 1980's to 2005? I knew there was a transition point in 2006 when labels were debating to have their songs aired on YouTube and internet radio like Live365 at the time in it's startup phase.
And, at its best,
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I played a small part in getting the cable co. in Iowa City IA to add MTV - I went to a few city council meetings and asked for MTV to be added.
A friend and I went to another small meeting with a cable TV representative where another guy (who had placed petitions in the local record stores to add MTV to cable) presented them, my friend and I also asked for MTV to be added.
It was a 35 channel system and CBS Cable had just shut down in 1982-12, so on 1983-03-01, MTV was added.
When I got home on the 1st, I watched/listened to MTV for over 8 hours straight (TV sound, I didn't have an FM stereo tuner).
I moved to mid-MO in 1984, the 12 channel cable co. there took MTV off in 1987 (I didn't try to get them to bring it back).
Kirk Bayne
A friend and I went to another small meeting with a cable TV representative where another guy (who had placed petitions in the local record stores to add MTV to cable) presented them, my friend and I also asked for MTV to be added.
It was a 35 channel system and CBS Cable had just shut down in 1982-12, so on 1983-03-01, MTV was added.
When I got home on the 1st, I watched/listened to MTV for over 8 hours straight (TV sound, I didn't have an FM stereo tuner).
I moved to mid-MO in 1984, the 12 channel cable co. there took MTV off in 1987 (I didn't try to get them to bring it back).
Kirk Bayne
In the smaller market where I lived in the early 90s, there was a huge uprising against MTV and a well-publicized effort to have it kicked off the local cable systems (TCI cablevision was I think the provider back then), because people were aghast at Beavis and Butthead. They considered the humor crude, didn't think young people should be exposed to that kind of 'language' and 'graphic violence' and more than a few crimes were attributed to kids who supposedly repeated things they'd seen on that show - though it was later proven in at least a few cases that the kids committing the acts didn't have access to cable and had never actually watched the show.
You mean MTV here, right? And its early years' focus on rock, almost exclusively by white artists?
Yeah. I went back and corrected it. (That's what happens when you have your YouTube playlist on in the background!)
SXM, where the 80'x on 8 channel is staffed mostly by former MTV jocks ( except JJ Jackson who died and Martha Quinn who left) is going to be doing stuff to remember MTV, rumor has it Martha is going to do some promo stuff.
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