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45 years ago today, MTV ("Music Television") began broadcasting. Here are the first two hours of it. (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50823046

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50823044

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago

I was sitting on my buddy Brad's couch at the moment it launched. We both worked in a record store, and we'd been waiting for weeks, and we were really excited. Brad had cable, my dad wouldn't spring for it.

Here's a cool little button from the time, cross promoting MTV and The Cars

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Need to throw an 80's themed party with this on full blast

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Now we have https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I really liked seeing this. The most interesting thing was you could get a stereo dial sticker, I guess in case your TV was on mono?

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