The Music Television Revival on Satellite TV
Back when MTV – Music Television – first appeared on August 1, 1981, it promised to change the way music would forever be viewed. Before it’s time, people never imagined that music could actually be watched on television. The societal norm was simply listening to the radio, vinyl record or a cassette tape on a stereo or in the car. Yet, once the station premiered for the first time and played the appropriate “Video Killed the Radio Star” music video, by The Buggles (the first video ever to appear on MTV), everything changed.