Happy birthday, MTV
By Tim.As Bill Sobel points out on his blog, MTV turned 27 yesterday. It’s safe to say we wouldn’t have Next New Networks without MTV, so congratulations to our much bigger, older brother — or maybe our cool uncle — the channel that got millions of people like me through adolescence in the 80’s and 90’s and opened up a window to a much bigger world than the places we were stuck. I think about MTV pretty much every day in this job, as it’s hard to overstate what it did to TV.
I’ve been looking for an excuse to do this anyway for a week or two, so here’s the famous first video, Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.” If it’s incongruous to post a YouTube vid, well, I’m sure most people from MTV, then and now, actually really love YouTube (and I recently discovered, in the Google/YouTube offices in Chelsea, there’s a huge photo of MTV’s Times Square studios in their main elevator. These two are destined to one day be together). But you can also watch the video on Overdrive if you prefer. They just won’t let me embed it, though I’m sure they will soon enough.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Thanks Tim!
-Bill