MTV Promo 1981

[@wutzit]

That logo animation at the end was really cool

[@dariussaavedra8062]

Agreed

[@betosvrodfloresjr.37]

🤣

[@astonishingpatch]

Videos featured in this promo: “You Better Run” by Pat Benatar “Fashion” by David Bowie “Sometimes a Fantasy” by Billy Joel “Dreaming” by Blondie Out of the videos in this promo, “Sometimes a Fantasy” by Billy Joel and “Dreaming” by Blondie weren’t actually aired on the channel

[@danieldiaz-tavera9137]

This may very well be the most '80s thing I've ever seen.

[@Eliotime3000]

This year, VH1 Classic Europe has been turned into MTV 80's, with this logo.

[@ChristianPerez-pr9jj]

This 1981 MTV promo was before MTV started airing some reality shows and the music was taken off the air. This was also before Mike Judge's hit adult animated comedy Beavis and Butt-Head premiered on MTV starting in March 1993, when MTV aired the show's first seven seasons, and the show was briefly revived in 2011 for a eighth season. MTV is turning 42 on Tuesday, August 1st!! That's also the same day that MTV first launched!!!! I'll just have to keep watching MTV commercials from the 80s even more!! This is starting to get FANTASTIC and AWESOME!!!! WOO-HOO!!! I really hope MTV keeps running and I'm so glad this channel never gets shut down!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀👏👏👏👏👏

[@kiranolan7104]

mtv is useless now. They might as well just take the channel away. Is anyone still watching the channel?? I don't think even teenagers are watching anymore! I have fond memories of it from the 90s but its heydey is def over.

[@monsieurmike2072]

Yup...MTV started going from the 90's onwards. The 80's was the best decade...the channel was a hit. I first started watching this channel from the beginning when my dad bought a huge satellite cband mesh dish to watch all those premium movie channels and adult channels..those were the good days. Fond memories

[@danalong1237]

Keith David, the voice of Goliath in the Gargoyles animated series, manning the VO.

[@tonstad39]

Stereo AND tv, i want my MTV!

[@Launchpad05]

And you'll never look at human decency the same way again, either.

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

Marc, I do believe Little House On The Prairie in on the Hallmark Channel. Hurry and go watch before church.

[@RageTVHTX]

I remember MTV was channel 14 on Storer Cable in our area. I think it pretty much stayed there after the TCI took over in the mid 90s. Then on Warner Cable I think it moved to 25 in the late 90s.

[@richardlacey4923]

How many 20’s were pocketed by the storer cable guys .. the 4 colored stickers were gold

[@lorireece1970]

Oh, how I miss the good ole days of MTV! It's nothing but total crap now!

[@WrangleMcDangle]

back when graphic design had soul

[@WrangleMcDangle]

@2ndservace not really

[@ChristianPerez-pr9jj]

This was before the reality shows began to take over and MTV had to push all the music out the door. MTV sure did launch on August 1, 1981.

[@mrchopsticks3]

Nickelodeon, HBO, CNN, BET, USA, TBS, Showtime, The Movie Channel, C-SPAN, and ESPN are all older.

[@isaacchannel489]

@@mrchopsticks3 and lifetime

[@Strongbad700]

Damn. I wish I was living during Generation X.

[@curioso4762]

lol was so fucking boring and annoying: no internet, no cellphones, all school work was in writing and had to research in the library , no gps, have to use maps and ask for directions to trolls giving wrong directions. I watched a lot of MTV to have some joy.

[@StormsongK]

Read "I Want My MTV" by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum. It's a great look at the rise and fall of MTV. It'll explain exactly what went wrong by the people who made it, watched it, and saw it happen.

[@vintagecrowspirit]

I second this!! It's probably one of the best books about the evolution of music videos and how MTV came to be, as well as how it changed over time. I originally borrowed it from my local library but bought a copy online because it was that interesting.

[@BNDofDoom]

Stereo in 1981, amazing! For your information, Portugal got color television ONLY in 1980.

[@BNDofDoom]

@SrTiburonYVector that's for the comparison. some countries already had stereo some even didn't had color tv

[@betosvrodfloresjr.37]

🤣

[@jzimm1075]

When I was a kid, I know MTV was channel 25 for Cablevision Hauppague [New York], but I have no idea what channel it is now. I never look for it.

[@malinalungu407]

Back when MTV was MTV

[@Mitzi73]

I want this channel.

[@TrashLefties]

I so remember that. Amazing what's on KZbin.

[@ChristianPerez-pr9jj]

I really hope MTV turns 42 on Tuesday, August 1st, 2023. MTV has been on the air 41 years ago since the network first launched with its first music video, Video Killed The Video Star by famous band The Buggles on August 1st, 1981. MTV may be one of the longest-running TV networks in American history.

[@astonishingpatch]

You hope it turns 42? Of course it turned 42.

[@TeriLynn923]

@drfulmore07 I miss those days!

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Pat Benetar was the first MTV girl ❤

[@westlake19997]

MTV should go back to music television not Jersey Shore or Teen Mom crap gosh get a life!! 👈👏

[@thehelllord4458]

Theres already MTV 24 music or MTV Music (UK)

[@RamManNo1]

@@thehelllord4458”music television music”? Sounds redundant.

[@CubanPete1990]

I want my MTV!!!!!!

[@ChristianPerez-pr9jj]

This was before MTV aired its first animated show, Beavis and Butthead which premiered in 1993.

[@neyda3994]

And the real world in 1992

[@TheMediaHoarder]

Oh, just WHAT went wrong here??

[@lorireece1970]

Everything!

[@square_kirby7852]

Internet killed video simple

[@j.johnson8923]

0:11 yesss

[@kathrynmullaney765]

Do I recall correctly or were there music videos 24/7?

[@betosvrodfloresjr.37]

The computer graphics were “cool” back then. I used to make all kinds of graphics on our Apple IIe computers in computer math class. I opened the tutorial books that came with them and started entering code. I’d change number values here n there to see what would come up. My teacher saw me doing stuff on it but none of the course work. He didn’t have a clue so he just gave me a “C” that semester!🤣

[@mtvslifestyle9220]

lesss go MTV!!!>

[@darryllbj]

M tv is awesome 😎 and rock

[@khursheedrind4971]

What is the second song playing

[@jeffwalsh6015]

Anyone remember the cable boxes that had 15 buttons on them??

[@justadrummer68]

I'll do you one better: in 1975 I remember my neighbor getting it when our street first got it. It was a box with a round dial, with something like 10, or so numbers, and letters from A through about L or M.

[@richardlacey4923]

How many 20’s were pocketed by cable guys? Those 4 colored stickers were gold

[@dailyarchivesclosedfornow7971]

At 00:08 What the Music? Answer in Reply!

[@onestopmusicshop6352]

You Better Run by Pat Benatar

[@mike65085]

"You Better Run" by Pat Benatar. Fun fact: It was the 2nd music video to be played on MTV after "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

[@goos4298]

0:18 what song?

[@SteveDC101]

The voidz tv anyone?.

[@fytz-c1k]

Any clip from mtv UK opening

[@Gary_Wilmot]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKTUdHWQipWiiMU

[@SirValeous]

What song at 0:14?

[@daveidmarx8296]

Sometimes A Fantasy by Billy Joel

[@SirValeous]

@@daveidmarx8296 Thanks! :)

[@daveidmarx8296]

@@SirValeous Welcome! :)

[@terrymartin4234]

What's the song at 0:12?

[@daytongraham8382]

Fashion by David bowie

[@fabianbarajas5132]

I guess all men who have dreams are girls