MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981.

The show was an immediate hit and ran on the channel until 1981.

In 1981, the U. S. video channel MTV launched, airing " Video Killed the Radio Star " and beginning an era of 24-hour-a-day music on television.

However, the channel did air Olivia Newton-John's 1981 video for the hit song " Physical ", which lavished camera time on male models working out in string bikinis who spurn her advances, ultimately pairing off to walk to the men's locker rooms holding hands, though the network ended the clip before the overt homosexual " reveal " ending in some airings.

Eventually, on April 12, 1981, the channel extended its hours from 8 a. m .- 9 p. m.

In January 1980 Le Mesurier played The Wise Old Bird in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and appeared on the same channel as Bilbo Baggins in the 1981 radio version of The Lord of the Rings.

* In 1999, the Film4 channel, frustrated by the lack of any extended version of the film available in the UK ( only the low quality 1981 censored version was still in print ), released their own cut of Caligula, running approximately 143 minutes ( the missing 13 minutes can be mostly attributed to the PAL overspeeding and time compression ).

In 1981, a second channel was introduced, broadcasting in African languages such as Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana.

On 14 February 1981, the German channel ZDF broadcast the first episode in cooperation with the Austrian broadcaster ORF and the Swiss channel SF DRS.

It is best known as marking the debut of MTV, when the U. S. channel started broadcasting at 12: 01 AM on 1 August 1981.

These acts received exposure in the United States on the cable music channel MTV which launched in 1981.

The show was produced by the Spanish state broadcaster TVE ( which was the only television network available in Spain until 1983 ), and it was originally broadcast on its then main channel TVE1 from October 11, 1981 to February 14, 1982.

When A & E debuted, the channel took over the satellite transponder timeslot that one of its predecessors, ARTS, occupied from its launch in 1981.

* WSMV-TV, a television station ( channel 4 analog / 10 digital ) licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States, which used the call sign WSM-TV from September 1950 to November 1981

The following April, Lionsgate announced plans to revamp the network into a more entertainment-oriented channel, including plans to discontinue the bottom-screen scrolling program listings grid that has been a part of the channel since its inception in late 1981 ; by late 2011, 75 % of the systems carrying the channel were showing its programming in full-screen.

Between 1981 and 1984 Vassilikos served as general manager of the Greek state television channel ET1.

Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert assembled a team of highly imaginative writer / producers, modeled on their original 1981 creative team that had launched sister channel MTV: Music Television.

After Family ended, she starred with Annette O ' Toole and Shelley Hack in Vanities ( 1981 ), a television production of the comedy-drama stage play about the lives, loves and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school to post-college graduation ; it aired as a part of Standing Room Only, a series on the premium-television channel HBO.

The J. P. Patches Show was one of the longer-running locally-produced children's television programs in the United States, having appeared on Seattle TV station KIRO channel 7 from 1958 to 1981 .< ref name = autogenerated1 >

* KGAN, a television station ( channel 2 analog / 51 digital ) licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, which held the call sign WMT-TV from 1953 to 1981

From its inception in 1981, the cable music channel MTV featured a disproportionate amount of music videos from image conscious British acts.

Originally applied for in early 1981, it was assigned W63BB on channel 63 in mid-1987.

On January 12, 1981, a group calling itself Volunteer Organization for the Revolution claimed responsibility for blowing up six fighter jet planes in a Puerto Rico Air National Guard base at a loss of $ 40 million.

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Her first marriage, to Paul Drucker in 1981, lasted 40 days ( though they were not formally divorced until 1985 ); she subsequently married Jean-Paul Gourges in 1989.

However, in November 1981 ( after high-profile public demonstrations ) 40 frequencies unique to the UK, known as the 27 / 81 Bandplan using FM were allocated at 27 MHz plus 20 channels on 934 MHz ( 934. 0125 to 934. 9625 MHz with 50-kHz-spacing ).

From 1981 onwards the IBM PC's introduction of " Code page 437 " with 254 printable glyphs ( including 40 shapes specifically for drawing forms ), and development of Xerox Star-influenced environments such as the Macintosh, GEM and Windows made bit-mapped approaches more desirable, driving cost reductions for laser printing and higher resolution for impact dot matrix printing.

* Royal New Zealand Air Force purchased three ex-United Airlines aircraft in 1981, with two operated by No. 40 Squadron RNZAF and the third placed into storage and later broken up.

However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the village in 1981, the local economy went into a decline, leading most of those businesses to shut down.

From the time of the band's first album release in 1981 to its dissolution in 1986, Culture Club had amassed hits in several countries around the world, including ten Top 40 hits in the US, most of which went Top 10.

In 1971 it was 40, 000 ; in 1981, 64, 000 ; in 1991, 68, 000 and in 2001, 72, 000, meaning that the town's population had almost doubled within 30 years.

Stephen Moore released two pop singles — Marvin / Metal Man and Reasons to Be Miserable / Marvin I Love You ( double B-side )— in the UK in 1981, though neither reached the top 40.

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After a couple of lower charting singles, their first UK Top 40 hit was a re-release of the " Quiet Life " single, which peaked at No. 19 in October 1981.

Fought on August 21, 1981, at the Caesars Palace hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, it pitted Wilfredo Gómez, a Puerto Rican who had a record of 32 wins, 0 losses, 1 draw, and all his wins by knockout, and who was the world's Jr. Featherweight champion, against the lesser known Salvador Sánchez, who hailed from Mexico with a record of 40 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw.

In 1981 they released their first Polydor single, " Love Games ", which became a Top 40 hit.

* Anthony R Birley ( 1981 ), The Fasti of Roman Britain, pp. 37 – 40

ABC are an English New Romanticism band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990.

The UK channels that were legalised on 2 November 1981 were on two blocks of frequencies: 40 channels on the 27 MHz band and 20 channels on the 934 MHz band, both of which used FM ( frequency modulation ) and both unique to the UK.

In 1981, only one single made the charts, the Top 40 hit " One More Last Chance.

Studies of gill-net fisheries show that shearwaters ( Sooty and Short-tailed ) compose 60 % of the seabirds killed by gill-nets in Japanese waters and 40 % in Monterey Bay, California in the 1980s, with the total number of shearwaters killed in Japan being between 65, 000 and 125, 000 per annum over the same study period ( 1978 – 1981 ).

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From September 1979 until December 1981 he presented the Top 40 show on Radio 1.

In 1978, Page joined the Chicago Bears, with whom he played through the 1981 season and where he amassed 40 of his career sacks.

The band also had their first Top 40 hit in the United States in 1981, " Don't Want to Wait Anymore " ( recorded almost entirely by Spooner, without Waybill's participation ).