Tagged “music-tv”

MTV: The Channel That Was Built to Play Music Videos

Before it was a reality TV network, MTV was, quite literally, twenty-four hours of music videos and VJs — a genuinely radical idea for television in 1981, and one it eventually walked away from entirely.

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TRL: When MTV Made the Whole Country Vote on Music Every Afternoon

Total Request Live turned a countdown show into a daily ritual, a launchpad for pop's biggest stars, and the last great collective music moment before the internet fragmented everything.