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i remember our family got our first cable hook up about a week before mtv hit the airwaves. i actually got to see the inception of the channel and the buggles "video killed the radio star". the one thing that sticks in my memory is the station having nothing to show and putting up that running clock saying be right back. was watching vh-1 the other day and saw one of the videos i would sit and wait for hours to see. aldo nova's "fantasy". corny but i loved it.

[quote]Originally posted by enzfan
[br]i remember our family got our first cable hook up about a week before mtv hit the airwaves. i

the coolest part was being able to put a face on the music you were hearing on the radio, plus it brought new music that might not have been getting air play especially in all the areas between the coasts.

I would literally run home from school to watch MTV when we first got it. Our cable company didn't start carrying it until 1984. The first video I saw was Twilight Zone by Golden Earring. The first World Premiere video I saw was by Hall & Oates. Big B

We had a big party at my apartment, off campus from Stony Brook U, since it was summer...1981, I think...does anybody remember the second vid?

Pat Benatar, that little Long Island hottie...and the whole thing was kicked off by JJ Jackson, who unfortun

We got MTV briefly in '84--my parents were not the type to spend $$ on cable TV, but there was some kind of promo deal, so we did it. After I got over being grateful to Pop for getting it, I settled down to exciting afternoons rushing home from school to

I first got to see Emptvee in the late 90's as being Canadian we never had it, and by that time it sucked. Now Much Music, or Much Mucus as we called it, was cool. Lots of videos and interviews that had me glued to the idiot box after school. I had cable

I'm trying to remember the specifics, but I can't. What I do remember is the girl I was dating in 1982 had cable TV & I didn't even know what that was. I just knew it was really cool with all the different stations that she got & you didn't have to get up

1982, we just moved to Arizona where all the new houses were being built cable ready. My first video was The Clash "Rock the Casbah." I was an instant fan. I also remember the Go-Go's "Vacation" and "Our Lips are Sealed." (They were my favorites.) Also al

Before we had MTV, I watched videos on a local show called "MV3" with Richard Blade. It was very new wave- influenced. When we got MTV, I watched it a lot at first, but I got frustrated at how often certain videos were played(too-heavy rotation for the

If you weren't there, don't be fooled by what you see on MTV now - - early MTV was fantastic.

I always associate the video for Talk Talk's "Talk Talk" with early MTV and the style of music that was coming out at the time...

[quote]Originally posted by enzfan
[br]the one thing that sticks in my memory is the station having nothing to show and putting up t

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>We were one of the first to have MTV so the whole neighborhood was always at our house. I c

Cable wasn't offered in my our neighborhood back then, but a friend a few blocks away had it. I think the first video I saw was "Stray Cat Strut" and I remember thinking "What the heck is this?" Of course, now I think Brian Setzer is a musical genius.

I watched MTV all through 1981-1984. My town didn't have it on cable. A friend of mine ten miles away had it on her cable system. It used to irritate me that she could see it (and she wasn't a big music fan) but I couldn't. Finally got to watch it in m