Plenty of those who grew up in its heyday have an understandable amount of nostalgia for the channel as a cultural touchstone, and [Derf] used MTV archival footage to build a video alarm clock ...

MTV musical television was launched on August 1, 1981, and changed the game. The very first music video to air was ironically ...

MTV prophetically debuted with a too-appropriately-titled Buggles clip for "Video Killed the Radio Star", and the debate about whether video did that rages on to this day. Music lovers ...

In 1981, the first track was played on MTV – a UK number one hit that had barely broken the Top 40 in America. But with its title alone – ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ – The Buggles ...

MTV began its first broadcast with these words just after midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, followed by the music video for The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." In those first years, MTV wasn't the ...