25 year anniversary for MTV

[SWMustang]

Is today. What was the first video?

[44INAROW]

dang,, reminds me.. VH 1 is doing a show on the 25th anniversary of MTV - anyone have any idea when it is? they were showing the 1st VJ's etc from back then etc............. doesn't seem like it's been 25 years.

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by SWMustang
Is today. What was the first video?

Damn it!!!! I knew this one at one time....:mad: :thinking: :mad:

[AggieJohn]

Video killed the Radio Star by The Buggles

[Ranger Mom]

This is long...but interesting

No one knows how to throw a party like MTV. So there must be quite a bash planned for Aug. 1, celebrating 25 years on the air. Right?
Sorry. There are no plans to even mention the birthday.
When your average viewer is 20 years old - not even born when Madonna buckled on her ''boy toy'' belt - perhaps it's wise not to mention you're 25.
On a relentless mission to stay hip, MTV casually discards generations. Yesterday, ''Beavis and Butt-head.'' Today, ''Laguna Beach.''
And at each stop, MTV changes pop culture.
Our birthday present is a look back at 25 memorable MTV moments:
1. The debut: Aug. 1, 1981. The first video? The slyly prophetic ''Video Killed the Radio Star'' by the now-forgotten Buggles, seen by only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey. Within a few years, millions of kids demanded cable so they could see MTV. Along with CNN, it led TV's transition out of the three-channel world.
2. Beat It: March 31, 1983. Michael Jackson becomes the first black artist with a video on MTV.
3. Thriller: Dec. 2, 1983.
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Less a video than a 14-minute mini-movie, the premiere of Jackson's ''Thriller'' launched the idea of music videos as an art form.
4. Madonna busts out: Sept. 14, 1984. Performing ''Like a Virgin'' at the first Video Music Awards, Madonna popped out of a cake and became a superstar, putting the VMAs on the map.
5. Money for Nothing: 1985. The Dire Straits song was about MTV, mocked MTV and became the band's biggest hit because of MTV.
6. Bye-bye VJs: Original video jock J.J. Jackson's contract expired in 1985. Nina Blackwood followed him out the next year and so did Martha Quinn. MTV refused to follow its aging first fans, courting teens instead. It also began aggressively developing other programming.
7. Spring break: March 21, 1985: MTV's spring break coverage arguably gave rise to the ''Girls Gone Wild'' video series, where the breasts didn't need to be pixelated.
8. Rap blasts off: Aug. 6, 1986. Hip white kids like Rick Rubin or the Beastie Boys may have loved rap before, but ''Yo! MTV Raps!'' brought it into every suburban living room.
9. Pee-wee's return: Sept. 5, 1991. Pee-wee

Madonna
Herman went from star of one of television's most popular kids' shows to a national punch line when an undercover officer saw him masturbating in an adult theater. Herman went undercover himself for more than a month until appearing at the opening of that year's VMAs. ''Heard any good jokes lately?'' Herman asked, to howls of laughter.
10. Enter grunge: Sept. 29, 1991: Nirvana's ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' video killed the hair metal scene and signaled the ascendancy of grunge.
11. Clapton unplugged: March 11, 1992. Only the most desperate of fading 1980s bands - Nuclear Valdez, Squeeze, the Alarm - responded to MTV's first requests to show off their acoustic chops. But stars soon lined up: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, and Eric Clapton, who had to be talked into releasing the show on CD. It became his biggest-selling album.
12. Boxers or briefs? April 19, 1994. Two years in office, President Clinton submitted to 90 minutes of questions by 16-to-20-year-olds before a live MTV audience. Everything else was forgotten when 17-year-old Laetitia Thompson of Potomac, Md., asked: ''Mr. President, the world's dying to know. Is it boxers or briefs?'' ''Usually briefs,'' the president replied, looking slightly non-plussed. Today, most presidential candidates use MTV to reach first-time voters.
13. Heh-heh. Cool: March 24, 1994: Who'd have thunk that ''Beavis and Butt-head'' would make the cover of Rolling Stone?
14. Reality bites: June 23, 1994. The 1992 debut of ''The Real World'' ''invented reality TV,'' says Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.
15. Feedback loop: April 14, 1998: Jesse Camp wins the first ''I Wanna Be a VJ'' contest.
16. Times Square live: Oct. 22, 1998. The Backstreet Boys shut down Times Square during a ''Total Request Live'' appearance. The ruckus cemented ''TRL's'' role as pop culture's home page.
17. Jiggle it: Sept. 9, 1999. When Lil' Kim presented a VMA with a pasty-clad breast, Diana Ross couldn't resist a playful fondle.
18. Tipsy: Oct. 1, 2000. ''Jackass'' Johnny Knoxville specialized in painful on-camera tricks, and ''Jackass'' quickly became MTV's most popular show.
19. Mariah's meltdown: July 19, 2001. Carey made a surprise appearance on ''TRL'' pushing an ice cream cart filled with

Beavis and Butt-head
popsicles and telling host Carson Daly she had a gift for him - taking off her oversized T-shirt to reveal a tight tank top and skimpy shorts. A week later Carey was checked into a hospital for ''extreme exhaustion.''
20. Family time: March 5, 2002: Sharrrr-rronnnn! The first bleeped-out swear word on ''The Osbournes'' premiere was followed by 58 others. They were America's first family before wearing thin, but not before Sharon got a talk show, daughter Kelly a recording contract and son Jack a stint in rehab.
21. Dogging Eminem: Aug. 29, 2002: The rap star was in no mood to hear Triumph the Insult Comic Dog chew over his feud with Moby. So when approached by the puppet on the VMAs, Eminem delivered a sucker punch and then flew into a rage backstage.
22. Ashton punks Justin: March 17, 2003. The debut of Kutcher's series ''Punk'd'' had a crew posing as the ''Tax Enforcement Agency'' seizing Justin Timberlake's possessions after saying he owed $900,000 in back taxes.
23. Chicken or tuna? Aug. 19, 2003. ''Newlyweds'' followed the telegenic Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey as they navigated marital bliss.
24. The kiss: Aug. 28, 2003. It was MTV's idea to bring back Madonna for a reprise of ''Like a Virgin'' for the 20th video music awards, and MTV's idea to pair her with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. The open-mouthed kiss that she planted on the two young stars? That was pure Madonna.
25. Stephen & LC: Nov. 26, 2004. ''Laguna Beach'' was originally conceived as a reality version of ''Beverly Hills 90210.'' Instead, it became a real-life soap opera that breaks convention by unfolding slowly, with none of the reality TV cliches like confessional interviews.

[SWMustang]

Ding! we have a winner - AJ. Now, can you name the original MTV VJ's?

[Cameron Crazy]

Ranger Mom is allways up to date:D

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by SWMustang
Ding! we have a winner - AJ. Now, can you name the original MTV VJ's?

I can't....but I thought Martha Quinn was SO cool!!!

[AggieJohn]

hmm. i wonder why they didn't celebrate, because they wanted to look hip?

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by SWMustang
Ding! we have a winner - AJ. Now, can you name the original MTV VJ's?

J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood and Martha Quinn?

[SWMustang]

JJ Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn. - Am I forgetting somebody? Adam curry was one of the first replacement VJ's I remember. Ricky Rachtman (sp?) was one of the more memorable.

The Real World was the beginning of the end for me and MTV. I just wanted to jump into my TV and beat the crap out of some of those kids - who at the time were about the same age or older than I was.

[SWMustang]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood and Martha Quinn?

Don't forget Alan Hunter - :clap:

[SWMustang]

Originally posted by AggieJohn
hmm. i wonder why they didn't celebrate, because they wanted to look hip?

That's all I can guess. We don't want to celebrate our history because we won't look cool? You know what MTV? You guys were innovators 25 years ago instead of desiminators of really crappy TV. Go back to the basement and get your stuff together.

[gato 76]

The band that made MTV was Duran Duran,after they came out with the video Hungry Like The Wolf,and Rio MTV just took off.

[Sweetwater Red]

Anybody remember the game show Remote Control.

[SWMustang]

Duran Duran certainly played a role in pushing MTV to the forefront. Don't forget Michael Jackson's role, which I think was more prominant than Duran Duran. Video were mostly concert footage before he started making big productions with choreography - like Thriller.

[SWMustang]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
Anybody remember the game show Remote Control.

Yes, who hosted that one? I remember Ben Stiller hosted a show too, when he was a nobody - well Jerry Stiller's kid anyway.

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by SWMustang
Yes, who hosted that one? I remember Ben Stiller hosted a show too, when he was a nobody - well Jerry Stiller's kid anyway.

Ken Ober ?

[SWMustang]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
Ken Ober ?

Ding! Correct! I had to look it up...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/pattonwb/rcmtv3.jpg

[Maroon87]

Happy Birthday MTV...it was cool for 10-15 years but now I can't watch it for more than a couple of minutes. I guess it's gonna be like Peter Pan and never grow up.

[CenTexSports]

Speaking of MTV, my son in law is going to audio engineering school in Nashville. For the last month he has been going around the country setting up the equipment for MTV while they have been auditioning disk jockeys. He was in Dallas last week and will be in LA this week. I think they call him a roadie (I call him a much worse name).

[Bull Butter]

Originally posted by SWMustang
JJ Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn. - Am I forgetting somebody? Adam curry was one of the first replacement VJ's I remember. Ricky Rachtman (sp?) was one of the more memorable.

The Real World was the beginning of the end for me and MTV. I just wanted to jump into my TV and beat the crap out of some of those kids - who at the time were about the same age or older than I was.

Mark Goodman was the other original VJ. In fact, he was the VJ on duty when it first signed on.

[District303aPastPlayer]

Originally posted by SWMustang
Is today. What was the first video?

i havent read the rest of the thread, but its Video Killed the Radio Star