MTV Debut 8/1/81 Opening and 1st Video
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- 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 success made Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson, and Martha Quinn overnight celebrities as the network's first VJ's. Stayed in it's original format for about 10 years before reality shows dominated it's programming and killed it for most.
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I still remember that summer day when MTV launched...no cell phones...no home computers..just radio,TV and now a new thing called videos...we were so excited..i was going into 11th grade...how times have changed...wow time flies..i am now 56 years old....but still young at heart and mind!!
I'm right there with you. My friends and I planed that entire day around the launch of MTV!
Same here. I'm 56 as well and I just happened to turn on the Tv I and I got to watch this live for the first time. I really miss those days of the 80's.
@@johnnyhancock2725 Miss the simpler world with great music. Now? Sigh!!!!
57, same here. And we had cool cars.
54, and I just got that Face Dances by The Who, that exact day. Bought that Buggles single on Island Records in late 79.
Then: Video killed the radio star
Today: Reality shows killed the MTV channel
This!
I'd like to agree but the reality is that reality shows saved it.
Unfortunately the mainstream audience preferred reality nonsense over exciting new music videos as artists could release videos online directly without having to rely on MTV to play it.
The world changed and because we live in a world that relies on capitalism then the old no matter how good it is for a generation of people is discarded with whatever appeals to the lowest common denominator and they love nothing more than sit there and judge people
@@A-small-amount-of-peas What crack are you smoking? "release videos online directly"? MTV was killing itself long before online videos were remotely viewable.
you do get the amazing irony here right? MTV created reality TV... remember The Real World!?! Seriously though, MTV was an absolute juggernaut in my day too (born 1983), seeing this video gets me. Especially since my 5 year old daughter really digs Video Killed the Radio Star 😄
The internet killed the Radio Star. And that's fact.never again .what a corny video,by the way.😊
The 80s, what a decade. Still miss them big time. A great time to be a teenager.
Senior in high school, then college, what a wonderful time....would give anything to go back in time and really appreciate it!
Take it from someone who was there, it was a great time to be a teenager. Mitch Banner Linville NC
same
This channel was launched on my birthday in 1981. I was 10 years old. I'd give all I have to go back to that time again. The 80's were the absolute best time in life for me.
@@Woodstock71 me too
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was just 15 in 1981. Those were great days for generation x.
I was 15 when MTV went live, and it came at exactly the right time. This was on constantly in our home, and I got to know the popular music (and some weirdness) of the day through it. I didn't know what it was called at the time, but I loved New Wave, Hair Metal, and a lot of other music. This was the soundtrack for my high school and college years. During the summer and weekends I would stay up late painting D&D miniatures with MTV always in the background. It's hard to overstate how much of an impact MTV had on me during my teenage years. Damn, I miss it.
Happy Birthday to Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn
When they actually played music. MTV blows hard now.
no it doesn't.
@@sillygoose635 it does. The only music related programming they have now is Freshout Playlist...
Basically, the channel is almost filled with ridiculousness....
I will forever maintain that they should’ve revoked the network’s right to the name MTV once the format changed for good sometime in the mid-90s.
Tell us bro when did now start or are you just caught talkin shit for the sake of it...carrots subliminally does the splits....cause we are forever chipped in sync by electric Blobi. .that's his hobby. .. probably....wifey just called.. she's been very weird of late..things are a bit wobbly..
Back to idiots killed the you tube art
See those hundred clicks he has. These are by people that no longer are into older or newer or finding new older stuff. So it's a one off song. Listened .I like that. Click off song. Go back to searching new interests..just sayin
Cause music sucks NOW..well this is playin ..and now it sucks..was good before though..see they changed and the reason they feel uncool..is because
How fitting that “video killed the radio star” was the first music video to air. I didn’t know that. Sweet!
Later on, the singer, Trevor Horn, and the keyboard player, Geoff Downes, went on to join the band Yes making two albums with them: Drama, and Fly From Here. Check them out, awesome music!
Was also the millionth song played.
@@theblitz9 really? They reached one million videos played on mtv? Even though it was going strong with music videos for 25 years or so, a million is still kind of surprising
@@assmane999 not really much if you calculate it.
1 million in 25 years is 40,000 a year which is about 110 a day.
Giving 5 mins per song/video it works out as 550 mins a day.
There are 1440 mins in a day so plenty of time.
@@johnnyquest6115 Geoff Downes also the keyboardist for Asia!
"The world's first 24-hour stereo video channel." My, how times have changed.
Yep - it's doubtful any of them could have forseen that now, on the 40th anniversary just about anything they showed is available to anyone to watch whenever they want to (even this first video).
No social media.
That was a really big deal of 1981 very few people had stereo TV I think it was 87 before I got mine and it still wasn't a lot of stereo programming and of course right now it's in mono on my phone
Yes kids, MTV really was MUSIC television.
I was just 13 years old when it launched. MTV must see viewing until I went to college. It was the best of times.
Had just graduated from High School in May of 1982 and enlisted in the Army. I love that I grew up with the greatest music of all time.
Thanks for your service!
Awesome!
as an 18 year old, i have to agree. I wish to have experienced 70s & 80s music first hand. Truly an incredible era.
Thanks many times over for serving, but you should have been around for 1965, The Stones, The Beatles, Yardbirds ....alright, I know, you're thinking how old you would be now....Hehe still....there had never been anything like it :)
Fellow Class of 82 here!
I would have hit rewind at 1990 and just kept on doing the 80's over and over again.
Back before cell phones messed it all up
Same
The 80s and 90s were nice
Then you would have missed a whole lot of great music. The 90's and 00's delivered a ton. Unless perhaps Warrant was just the pinnacle of music for you.
@@normie2716 🎯
My mom saw this live and she still says it was the best part of music in the 80s. She wouldn’t have found about some bands she loves today. It also helped that when she was growing up our town barely got anything new for days since we were so small back then. She remembers watching Mtv in a bar with her friends and dancing along
Thank you MTV. For the memorable years that you gave us, 1981 -1987
After that the reality shows began to take over and the music was pushed out the door. Along with millions of viewers only to make way for raking in more money with advertisers off of teen reality garbage.
Video killed the radio star...but it was greed that killed the music on MTV. "Money TV"
At least MTV had headbangers ball… that show ruled
@Stefano Pavone IDK, I think TV did a pretty good job of killing themselves with all the crap they put out.
I was a huge fan of MTV. I watched it from their early days all the way through their reality tv days, and loved every iteration of the channel, even if it was moving away from its original concept. But NOW, MTV is literally shit. I think the only thing worth tuning in for is Ridiculousness just to make me laugh. Go back to the music video days, that would be excellent. But as bad as it is now, I would even take old episodes of the Real World and Road Rules. I miss the old MTV, even through its different phases.
@@shaggy791
It seemed near the end that Eric Clapton owned VH1
I wonder now if Rob Durdek owns MTV?
Such ridiculousness
Trevor Horn who wrote “Video Killed the Radio Star” later produced the song “Reality Killed the Video Star”
These were the first VJs of MTV (1981-1986)
Mark Goodman
Alan Hunter Martha Quinn
J.J. Jackson Nina Blackwood
If you lived in the 80s under the age of 25 mtv was a part of your life. Mtv was there when my girlfriends would sneak through my window in middle school.
Mtv was there when I skipped school partying with my friends.
Mtv was there when me and my friends or all my relatives were together.
Mtv was there when everyone I ever loved and mattered most to me in the world was still alive and the world was still beautiful and magical to me.
Well said!
Unless you lived in a country where it wasn't broadcast, like the Soviet Union.
@@krashd or Vietnam, Cambodia, China,... yikes
Yep came home from school and this was on. Every house went to after the first day had MTv on.
Oh brother
MY GOD !!! I WANNA GO BACK
Me too! Can I join you?
We can't go back, but we can bring it back.
Same here!👋😢👍
If I can invent a machine that will take us all back there......
......then can one of you *please* teach me how to breakdance?
We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far..
I was with my boyfriend and a bunch of friends we couldn't wait till midnight for it to come on! Sure wish it stayed in the music video format and yes, with the 80's videos!
I'm from Finland where there only was public broadcasting with a couple of hours of after-school pop and rock music in 1981. The people making these programmes flew to NYC and witnessed the wonder of MTV in a hotel room. I can still remember the words (in Finnish): "There it is... Em. Tee. Vee.".
That just gave me major chills
One of my favorite cable channels back when. I watched this 1st broadcast.
DAMN !!
I REALLY MISS THE 80 ‘s !!
Damn, I had it BAAAAAD for Martha Quinn. Hubba Hubba!!!!. I remember the day it launched as it was a month before I started by last year of jr. High School (8th grade). Of course JJ Jackson was the MAN!!! I remember listening to his radio broadcasts with my brother back in the 70's. The man had class. RIP JJ.
Yeah Martha has aged well too.
Wow! When "In Stereo" was a major buzz word! I'll go out on a limb and say that the stereo sound of MTV from 1981 still sounds better than a compressed music file on an MP3 player heard through ear buds.
we had a TV with a little lamp that lit up when a show was in Stereo
I agree completely. Stereo tracks in their original form sound much more organic.
I recently saw The Eagles in concert. I heard Joe Walsh say he was having more fun rocking in the 20s when he's in his 70s than he did in the 70s when he was in his 20s!
Before HD was a thing
It took broadcast television twenty years to come up with a stereo standard for televisions and it took television stations another eight to ten years to start broadcasting it ("In Stereo Where Available"). Television was the least technically innovative industry in the world back then. It had hardly changed in thirty years.
I was a young man of 18 years, serving in the United States Air Force when this happened. I have so many memories connected to MTV back then. It's a shame what happened to the channel, but then again, today's music is garbage, so I wouldn't be watching it anyway.
Funny enough people who then were your age now were saying the same thing. You probably called them old people.
Back when MTV was actually something and not the garbage it is today.
Back when i was a kid,( I'm 50 now) me and my friends would sit up all night watching videos. Good times.
I was out of the country until late 1982, but when I came back I left the TV on MTV pretty much all the time. I remember being mesmerized by it all.
I wasn’t even alive 40 years ago, I appreciate MTV for what it used to be…. Happy birthday MTV
MTV was like a 24 hour a day Buddy. Always on, round the clock. My VCR was always ready for all the good stuff!
I remember coming home from school and knowing nothing about MTV starting up, it was great, just ate cereal and stared at the TV for hours
I was in grad school and spent way too much time watching MTV rather than studying. I remember this like it was yesterday.😢
Streaming killed the Video Store.
Yea netflix kinda took down blockbuster hard lol
pirating did that way before streaming
On this day in 1981, a day that changed our lives, the nation, the world and the airwaves forever, MTV, a new 24-hour cable television channel, was launched. Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, the late J.J. Jackson and Nina Blackwood were the first original VJs. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles was the first music video to be aired on MTV. Other music videos were aired on MTV included "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, "You Better Run" by Pat Benatar and "The One That You Love" by Air Supply.
I was 19 years old and those days when MTV came along was like a new beginning of life. It was amazing to see all those faces and people we had heard on the radio all those years. Notice I said It was amazing. Now they don't even show many music videos at all. I want my old MTV back.
Watched this very show at a friend's house that had cable TV... wow , I was a junior in high school at the time.
Same here!
Rest easy, JJ…thanks for your part in makin’ MTV the incredible cornerstone of mine an’ countless others’ childhoods.
We got cable in 1980 and when MTV came out I thought I died and went to heaven… what an era.
80's ultimate era for music,👍
The last era
The Buggles! Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes. After the first Buggles album both joined Yes in 1980. Trevor went on to be a top tier record producer (producing Yes' biggest selling album 90125) and Geoff Downes went on to co-found Asia. Later rejoined Yes in 2011.
That's what was so wonderful about the 80"s there was always something new and exciting.
I was 2 here . My brother was 9 my mom was 26
August 1 1981 You’ll never look at music the same way again
Present day you’ll never look at music again
hearing my parents talk about the 80s made me wanna go back in time and just live it and never to worry about anything. the social part, fashion, music, etc. I would of loved it!
It was an amazing time to be alive
I still remember when MTV had maybe a dozen videos. The screen would go blank for about a minute while they changed out the video tapes.
So much truth to that song. It was pretty much the end of anybody who looked average.
True... but I always thought they were talking about television (in general) in this song. Before TV was invented radio was HUGE. The lyrics talk about the jingles & “pictures came & broke your heart.”
That makes sense, since this was (as it shows) done in 1979, so not just for the beginning of this channel. Thus, the more general idea as you mention of transition from radio to TV.
It became about the manager's fake created image and less about the sound
They played nature scenes in between videos
Christopher Cross comes to immediate mind.
I grew up on MTV as a teenager--it was a life changer
I'll never forget the launch of MTV, this video brings back wonderful memories ❤
I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat.
I was watching this. 8/1/81.
Who remembers seeing Michael Jackson on MTV
LOVE Nina's outfit!!! That would look great in 2023!
Its been 40 years!
I loved the opening .
I love the opening
I watched it live when it came on.
Me too!!!! Damn we’re old!!!! Wish I could go back in time and relive the 80’s.
So did I ! 11 sitting on the floor like 😱
So did I!!
I was 16 what a great time to be alive, No cellphones, No computer age Just MTV
Me 2
MTV is now 40 years old as of today (August 1, 2021)
#Happy40thAnniversary
We should all embrace the beautiful past of art and entertainment. The innocence of pure preformance and staying true to the song is kind of gone today .
The Buggles keyboard player is now a renouned musician, writing movie sound tracks.
I remember running home from school to adjust the rabbit ears on the TV and to look for the pliers to turn the channel to watch this..dang I miss those days
I was living in Connecticut at that time i remember this song good memories god bless you all so long Fred ❤
I was working in master control at an Indie TV station and we cranked up the satellite dish to see the first broadcast of MTV and we were like..WHOA
MTV was very cool back then.
I remember hearing about this channel when it launched, but we didn't have cable TV until 2+ years later in my parent's house. I left for college in 1982... Unless you were alive then you have NO idea what a big deal this was.
I was born in '91. MTV used to air in the Philippines during the 90's, and my, I missed those days of listening to MTV when not watching cartoons or playing the Famicom.
Sadly, MTV (and music channels as a whole) went the way of the dodo.
August of 1981, I was starting my senior year of high school I was addicted to MTV.
That was when MTV showed videos 24 hrs a day and 7 days a week with VJs. I wish they bring it back.
The Bassist is driving that tune with spot-on 8th notes. Turn it UP
“Ladies and gentlemen, rock & roll!” 🥰
What a great bit of history! Thanks for posting it.
I want my old MTV back!✌😎👍I need a time machine!👉❤
UA-cam is your time machine. Enjoy!
Video Killed the Radio Star , when I hear that song to this day .... go back to this day
I was 11, Haviing no Idea that this channel would blow my mind the way I looked at music.
Indeed it was a Historic day, the dawn of a new era
So 80s, a good decade for me.
MTV su primer día de trasmisión feliz 40 aniversario 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I still listen to Martha Quinn on my local radio station!
It’s too bad that MTV doesn’t offer videos like this any longer. It certainly isn’t Music Television no days.
“Ladies and gentlemen; Rock n’ Roll.” 😎
My my . That debut was less than a month after I moved up to Boston from Connecticut . My aunt stashed me in her house for about 7 months until I moved up to Boston .
Head Bangers Ball!! my buddies and I wouldn't miss it
This August, MTV will be 40 years old!
I was watching. Just turned 21 and one of the first households in Nashville with cable tv. Also, I watched every shuttle launch and landing till the end of the program.
Wow, I was 4 years old and still remember the good music MTV once had.
Twisted Sister was my favorite video of the 80 s 😅
Ohh the lovely Trevor Horn! Such an innovator throughout the 80's and 90's - Much of pop music can be traced back to this great producer...
Happy 41st Milestone Birthday Anniversary to the Original MTV
And RIP JJ Jackson ❤️💙🤍🇺🇸🎈🎂☕🕊️🎸
Martha Quinn is a DJ here in Omaha now on the 'oldies' station.
Chills now watching this again! There were a dozen of us partying in front of the t.v. at this very moment! We knew we were witnessing history!
Remember this day well
I wish i was alive when this aired. Sadly i was born 16 years too late
I was born like 31 years late
Ahhh...those where day's! The best!✌😎👍
I was 3 years too late. 80’s and 90’s MTV and Much Music we’re amazing
I was there for that I'm trying to think is there anything like that that would happen in your life today or back then I don't think so
Great to hear some of the cast on Sirius XM
Crazy to think it’s almost 43 years ago.
RIP MTV 🙏
Use to watch you all the time when you use to play videos in the late 2000’s and the early 2010’s.
The optimism, the innovation, the lust for life!
I remember seeing the first video on MTV in 1981 . I was 6 .
Weeks later I started Pre-school lol. 45 now. I didn't actually start watching Mtv until spring of 1992. Then came Beavis and Butt-Head in 1993 lol.
I remember when MTV first came on was in high school and was instantly popular, trouble is you had to have cable, so me and my friends had to watch it at the house of a drug dealer who was a friend of my best friend.
I just saw this Buggles video on UA-cam yesterday. Great album too by the way.
Me and all the neighborhood kids packed Greg's basement and went nuts over this
I remember watching the first video "Video Killed the Radio Star". What I found out just now that only people in New Jersey were able to watch it. Thank God I lived in Jersey at the time!
MtV was the best! Man time changes everything
Happy birthday MTV 🎉🧁🎂🎵🔥😎😁😀🥳😘😮👍👄🌙💗💖💜💕❤️💪✌️🤘🤩
I WANT MY MTV
Who's here August 1, 2024
Me
I was barely 18 years old on this day in 1981. The '80s were the best, and MTV played a big part in that!
Martha Quinn, my personal favorite
I was 10 and after school several classmates went to one of our friends house that had cable tv and we watched mtv for the first time.
It was unprecedented.
I was going into the seventh grade soon on this day and hanging out with my middle-school crush at a friend’s house-it was a small gathering of boys and girls with no parents home. Not only was there a lot of flirting going on along with some other middle-school-level stuff but this was happening. We felt we were so grown-up and with the MTV thing also a very cutting-edge generation-we were special. Sounds corny but that never happens again in your life!