On this day in 1981, MTV launched with the slogan “You’ll never look at music the same way again” and an intro that played on the moon landing, for a select few in New Jersey at the stroke of midnight. The network boasted this new concept in TV, to do what FM did to radio (“Video Killed The Radio Star”) and well – it’s in the history books now.
Although much of the music has been non-existant on the channel (except for MTV Jams) for a latter part of the decade, there is no denying the impact MTV has done to music and our culture the past 30 years. So today, we salute MTV for keeping the tradition going and for what it’s done thus far. Here’s to 30 more years.
Check the jump for more on throwback clips of MTV’s first day, one of which includes a commercial for Superman 2 (!!!). The other clip features a 1995 news story on the information superhighway aka the internet. We’ve come so far since then.
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