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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This was when MTV was actually music television…before it became a garbage reality network.
and metal only
I agree
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.😊
43rd anniversary of MTV...thanks for 14 years of music...
LOL...a lot of people arean't going to get this.
Hahahahahahahahaha! They haven't played music for 29 years now!
Get back to Music videos before the gangsta rap cr@p!
Yeah
That's why I stopped watching MTV.
😂😂😂
I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat.
Ditto
Me Too.
If you're born in the 60s, you think the 80s was only 20 years ago
Wouldn't even blink, just send me back to the real World.
I want to go back 2000 years and meet Jesus.
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 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.
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
The words don't exist to express how much I miss the 1980's. I would give anything to go back and relive it. Best time of my life,every day was about having fun and enjoying life.
True... the 1980's were the best, and I miss the days that were simple compared to now. I went through being a teenager in those days and loving the times.
I'm with both of you, my heart aches to go back to the 80's. Best decade of my life.
I Hear Ya Man!! The 80's were Absolutely Amazing!! As was MTV!! It was especially Awesome if you were a 49er Fan during that time!! I wish Like Hell I could go back to those days also!! I'll Never Forget Them!! Who Agrees?
I remember when this happened. I was 12 years old. There was nothing like it on television. Dear Lord, I miss the 80s.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was just 15 in 1981. Those were great days for generation x.
14 for me!
12 when MTV launched and I was there for that opening. Had to sneak down and turn the tube TV on as low as the volume could go so the parental figures wouldn't hear.
@@daniellucas1494me too!
Yup..best days...15 then..cable tv.lol 18 1984..58 now..peace to all the old school..when it was good!!
I turned 14 in May 3 months be it began ..it changed the music Industry literally over night..all of my class mates friends all watched MTV..
The 80's !! the BEST decade of my life. Covered high school and College. The best time. No wars, a good economy, the best movies and music.
And the brawling era in the NHL. Violence at it's best. The arms race was started with all the enforcers starting around 1984-85. Miss the old St. Louis Arena in the 'Chuck' Norris Division. The violence is what got all of us playing ice hockey all the way up AAA and Jr.'s.
No wars ?
War was everywhere
You aren't remembering very well.
I was on a gunfire support station in Beirut lebanon in 83, there was war
I remember the day!! Im watching TV and my brother comes in all excited and changes the channel and says "You gotta see this!" He turns it to MTV and I said "What is this?!" He replies "Its music videos!" I said "What are music videos?" He goes "Its music with a video! Just watch, you'll see!" That day changed my life! It was the greatest thing ever! Of course after awhile they ruined MTV, but back in the day is was so awesome and amazing! Id rather watch MTV than any TV show!
We got cable in 1980 and when MTV came out I thought I died and went to heaven… what an era.
That and Headbangers ball, such a great time for Music.
@@animalyze7120 Headbangers ball will the metalhead Paradise
Binge watching began with MTv.
DAMN !!
I REALLY MISS THE 80 ‘s !!
I miss the women of the 80's. No hideous tats up and down their legs and arms. No bull rings in their noses. No stupid belly button jewelry. No 20 ear piercings. No tongue studs. Just natural beauty.
I agree
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!
I was 19 and in my mind " immortal"....now I'm in my 60s ....I was sitting in front of the TV watching MTV "launch"....the Buggles! Will never forget and I'm still 19 in my heart!
Me Too.
Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it.
My dad let me stay up for this, pissed my mom off no end. Thank you daddy for instilling in me a life long love of music.
Something tells me dad was loving it too.
❤😂 YOUR DAD SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL...BECAUSE HE HAD MUCH MORE COMMON SENSE...NO DOUBT HE BEEN THERE BEFORE...SEEING THE BEATLES TO THE SUMMER OF LOVE BACK IN HIS YOUTH...AND SAID;"SON...I'VE BEEN THERE MYSELF...AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR MOTHER SAYS...YOU'RE GOING TO REMEMBER THESE WONDER YEARS...AND TELL YOUR KIDS THE SAME THING!"💯🙏❤️🔥🪷😌
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 sister and myself were laying in the floor watching our Zenith floor model TV watching this live!! ❤
Live???
...and it's pathetic now. So sad
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 don't know if this is a false memory or if they played reruns of the first airing, all those years ago but what I'm remembering at 52 right now is that as soon as my grandparents had the cable guy hook up our new cable, he turned on the TV and the MTV logo and this entire clip including them playing video killed the radio Star was the first thing I saw when we got cable hooked up! And now that I'm saying this for the first time out loud to my microphone to type this I do realize how ludicrous that sounds but seriously that's what I remember!!! 🤔
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.
So true.MTV now is a joke compared to the original
None of it is even music. It's ghetto trash. Nothing touches the 80s
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”
Thanks MTV for 14 years of great music and videos.
Exactly - before it became antiwhite.
Once MTV hit the 00s it was dwindling down from the sky scraper it was before! When it came to music I'm not talking about other stuff like real world! Jack Ass etc.
@@lawdymama8478 - Burn!
Yes kids, MTV really was MUSIC television.
I remember my Mom getting so excited for this to air. I still listen to the original VJ's on Sirius XM's 80's channel. I live for the the nostalgia.
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!
These were the first VJs of MTV (1981-1986)
Mark Goodman
Alan Hunter Martha Quinn
J.J. Jackson Nina Blackwood
and it was Metal only
I was almost 10 when Mtv came out growing up this epic...boom boxes and cassette tapes, arcade games, Atari
Wish they had stayed the same. Today’s MTV is horrible.
Happy Birthday to Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn
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 was watching this. 8/1/81.
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.
"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
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.
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.
Who remembers seeing Michael Jackson on MTV
Remember when they played Thriller in the student lounge at Hunter College it immediately flooded with students rushing in to watch it!
Me
What a great bit of history! Thanks for posting it.
It’s amazing how MTV and it’s videos bring back so many memories of my life!! Good ones! 👍👍👍
Rest easy, JJ…thanks for your part in makin’ MTV the incredible cornerstone of mine an’ countless others’ childhoods.
And now MTV is just some sad reality TV shit machine. Man... Nina Blackwood's voice sure has changed. Is she just a serious chain-smoker?
Nina Blackwood died a few years ago.
@@rjd0429 no she didn’t? She’s rasping it up like an old lady chain smoker on sirius
@@rjd0429 Nina Blackwood is very much alive....she's on Sirius.
if video killed the radio star, then apple itunes killed the video star.
And auto tune killed off real talent
MTV killed the video star when they stopped playing music
I was 13 when MTV first aired. The greatest time to be a kid. I miss those days.
You don't have to answer if you don't want to, but you wouldn't happen to be 52 right now would you?! Not really asking to be personal I'm asking because I'm trying to remember how old I was when I first saw this and I'm 52 right now lol!! 😏🫡🫶🏻
I wish I was born earlier to witness this era for a longer time. BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL MTV!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll never forget the launch of MTV, this video brings back wonderful memories ❤
LOVE Nina's outfit!!! That would look great in 2023!
Class of 86 here no doubt!
Class of ‘89 🎉
Dose of the clap here.
85
87 👍
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
The 80s weren't just different because of awesome music and TV shows, its like more people were actually on the same page and more in tune with each other than any other time in life. Love was so thick you could cut it it with a knife and the planet just seemed cleaner, its like there was something in the air, the way the sun light shined on everything you could just feel something all around you that isn't there anymore. Im forever grateful i got to be a teen in the 80s, I'd go back in a heartbeat
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.
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
Streaming killed the Video Store.
Yea netflix kinda took down blockbuster hard lol
pirating did that way before streaming
I was station at Edwards AFB, California when it came on the air. I have it recorded on a VHS tape. Love 80s new wave music and the VJs.🥰👍🎶🎸🎤📺
I remember when MTV kicked off. We didn't have cable where I lived. Nothing changed.
and Metal only
These were the days. Nows it's al fake reality shows and music
Man do I remember that, it was a great time thank you 80's
Mtv when it was music not stupid realty 💩
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
I want my MTV ❤❤
What a great time. The basic package for cable tv was like $8 a month and zero commercials. Good music, good movies, nobody was shooting schools, we actually felt free back then.
It’s too bad that MTV doesn’t offer videos like this any longer. It certainly isn’t Music Television no days.
I was right there watching it all started. Great summer indeed!
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.
I remember this day! I watched it on the little color TV in my room. Standing up o was so excited.
It was a blessing growing up in the 80's! Joined the Army Reserve at 17 in 1980. Now I'm almost 62! GOD has blessed me!
I remember the first day of MTV like it was yesterday...
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!
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!
Who, here, even remembers the last time that MTV actually HAD music on it?
Great Question!
It's been a long time, even in the mid to late 90's you had to rely on MTV2 for anything music related as MTV itself was just reality TV nonsense.
19 years old in my 1st year of college! Holy crap I am old!
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.
Loved this video and this time as a teenager.
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.
God i remember this abd thought it would last till 2085. Only 25 years later RUclips started and it was the beginning of the end. You just had to be there to understand how MTV ruled ever kid and teens lives for 2 decades and made superstars!!! It was magical!!
I saw this opening show. Just music videos. I had it on 24\7 for a year. Didnt take long for them to commercialize it though. Then started running series. I haven't watched it since those days.
I was 14 in 1981,god what an awesome time to grow up!
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
Ah, the summer of '81. 13 years old. Girls, fast food, and rock 'n roll. My favorite year to be alive.
Now it's:
"Welcome to MTV. The world's ultimate PC and woke preaching channel with a bit of music interspersed."
Head Bangers Ball!! my buddies and I wouldn't miss it
I was in grad school and spent way too much time watching MTV rather than studying. I remember this like it was yesterday.😢
Remember this day well
Then youtube and Spotify killed the MTV star!
It was better then
Mtv killed themselves when they aired too much reality shit and forgot they were "Music Television"
Kids today will never get to experience all the excitement we had as kids. I am 60.
Getting to see every first!!🌟
Video games.
Computers.
Remote control.
Cars with all the electronics.
(Which I hate).
8 tracks
Cassettes
Blue Ray
Everything!!!!!!
It’s exciting to have been there when everything was introduced to the world. I got to see all the advances and changes in the world!!
When I was a kid all I had was radio and tv with 4 channels!!
Cartoons were on Saturday mornings only!!!!
We looked forward to seeing and experiencing everything new!!!!
Now kids don’t have those experiences!!😢
I miss all of it!! 😢
I miss the 70s/80s!!
Martha Quinn is a DJ here in Omaha now on the 'oldies' station.
I was laying on my grandfathers bed just hollering with excitement!!!!
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 just 13 years old when it launched. MTV must see viewing until I went to college. It was the best of times.
Same here.
the 1st music video i watched was on MTV 2001 Bad touch by bloodhound gang it was winter getting really for school. good times
That’s not the music video. It’s their live performance.
eah I thought the first video on MTV was the little girl, the test tube, etc.
This is different than the video I remember for this song. Was there more than one version? We got cable/ MTV in summer 1982 so I didn’t see the debut. Doesn’t really look like a true “live” performance.
Which begs the question (too young to know the answer myself): did they air the official music video, or was the "first video" a live performance in their TV studio? I don't know the answer, although the latter possibility seems intuitively plausible and even appropriate.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 They aired the real video.
This has been spliced together.
@@theblitz9 Got it! I was born in 1988, so this was all well before my time.
Now this was when music videos were fun to watch.....thank you MTV for the wonderful memories
MTV Classic
The optimism, the innovation, the lust for life!
I wasn’t even alive 40 years ago, I appreciate MTV for what it used to be…. Happy birthday MTV
Me and all the neighborhood kids packed Greg's basement and went nuts over this
That's what was so wonderful about the 80"s there was always something new and exciting.
I remember thinking how modern we were-- this is the future! When MTV debuted in 1981. One thing's for sure though-- MTV had finally brought us into the 1980's.
MtV was the best! Man time changes everything
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 is now 40 years old as of today (August 1, 2021)
#Happy40thAnniversary