Sofa King Podcast

Episode 671: I Want My MTV!


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On this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we look at MTV. This little upstart cable channel first aired in 1981with very little content but a big dream. It fulfilled those dreams and then some. There would be no 1980s culture without MTV. The music, the fashion, the videos, all of it was first seen here. It low-key launched the careers of people like Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Spike Jonez, and John Stewart. It gave us Madonna’s sexy lace, Prince’s swagger, hair metal, music news, and Beavis and Butthead. This one will be a walk down memory lane and an exploration of one of the greatest cultural juggernauts of the past forty years.
 
Visit Our Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mtv-launches
https://www.mtvpress.com/networks/mtv-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV
https://theconversation.com/40-years-of-mtv-the-channel-that-shaped-popular-culture-as-we-know-it-165365
https://www.everything80spodcast.com/the-history-of-mtv/
https://watchmojo.com/video/id/9782
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Concert_Hall
Videos before MTV
The Very First Two Hours of MTV.
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