Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching classical tune composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with the flag featuring MTV's logo changing various colors, textures, and designs.

It was MTV's first original non-musical program.

Earlier, MTV Europe had already included elements from the original song and the video in the title graphics for MTV's Greatest Hits.

He was one of MTV's five original VJs ( along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn ).

He was a music reporter for KABC-TV when he was tapped as one of MTV's original " fab five.

MTV Jams was the last remaining MTV network in the United States to use MTV's original Kabel font for their music video credit tags, which the main MTV network discontinued in October 2007.

At the end of 2006 it was announced that MTV would premiere its latest original show, MTV's The Lair which premiered on 26 January 2007 and is aired live every Thursday at the Metro Theatre.

" ( Yankovic also continued to make fun of MTV's " moon launch " inserts well after the network had discontinued the original versions.

The brazilian version of VH1 MegaHits used MTV's original font Kabel for their music video credit tags in the first months, however now it's using a sans-serif font inside a blue box in the left-bottom corner of the screen.

MTV's plan of having the shows overlap each other was MTV's original strategy for both shows.

Seibert was MTV's first creative director and guided its original voice and visual identity, creating hundreds of promotions, advertisements, and station IDs for the channel, and responsible for a rethinking of how television channels promoted themselves as " brands.

She was chosen for MTV's original video jockey lineup, along with Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J. J. Jackson.

The original song was also featured as a clip of music in an episode of MTV's " Pimp My Ride.

After MTV's original choice was revealed to have been released before 1 October 2008, breaking contest rules, it was decided that Zoltán Ádok would be Hungary's next Eurovision entrant, performing " Dance with Me ", after MTV's second choice to represent Hungary declined.

" They recorded two full length albums, performed with several major label acts, and had songs aired on three consecutive seasons of MTV's " The Real World " The band toured nationally with CIY Believe Conferences ( also original band ) and played festivals, state fairs, and teen conventions, everything from bars to churches, parties to high school auditoriums.

MTV's will replace its traditional logo the MTV: Music Television logo to be replaced by the current MTV US logo.

Windows Media DRM, which can be used in conjunction with WMA, supports time-limited music subscription services such as those offered by unlimited download services, including MTV's URGE, Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo!

On January 24, 2002, MTV's TRL premiered the " Nice to Know You " video, and Boyd called in from Europe where the band was on tour with 311 and Hoobastank.

The band was then featured on MTV's Becoming, TRL, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and played the Late Show with David Letterman on February 14, 2002, all before heading off to play dates in Japan and Australia for the remainder of February and March.

In an attempt to make his new album a success, Prince easily gave more interviews than at any other point in his career, appearing on MTV's Total Request Live ( with his album cover on the front of the Virgin Megastore, in the background on TRL throughout the whole show ), Larry King Live ( with Larry Graham ) and other media outlets.

" during his interview with Letterman, in reference to MTV's " I want my MTV " marketing campaign of the time.

By 1998, Daria was one of MTV's highest rated shows, with the network's manager Van Toffler viewing her as " a good spokesperson for MTV, intelligent but subversive ".

Sun Electric have worked with graphic artist and videographer Nick Philip ; " Meccano ", created for MTV's Amp, was the first video played on that show.

As one of the first openly gay men with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media, Zamora brought international attention to HIV / AIDS and LGBT issues and prejudices through his appearance on MTV's reality television series, The Real World: San Francisco.

Sunny Isles Beach was also the 2008 site of MTV's annual " Spring Break " celebration, with headquarters at the local Newport Beachside Resort.

In 2012, he created the rap trio Three Loco, along with Andy Milonakis, previously known for The Andy Milonakis Show, and RiFF RaFF ( rapper ) of MTV's From G's to Gents fame.

He was featured in MTV's follow up to Totally Scott-Lee called Totally Boyband, as a member of a new group with other former boyband members called Upper Street.

During the mid-to-late 1980s, glam metal bands were in heavy rotation on the channel, often at the top of MTV's daily dial countdown, and some of the bands appeared on the channel's shows such as Headbanger's Ball, which became one of the most popular programs with over 1. 3 million views a week.

MTV's sister channel, VH1, airs VH1 Storytellers, interspersing mostly acoustic performances with the artists discussing the history, meaning and memories of the songs.

In 1992, Dismember released the Pieces EP, and the following year continued with second full-length Indecent & Obscene which featured their song " Dreaming in Red "; the " Dreaming in Red " videoclip was shown in MTV's Headbangers Ball.

M2 began broadcasting on August 1, 1996 — MTV's 15th anniversary — with Beck's " Where It's At " being the first video to air.

The album's first single, " Goodbye for Now " ( with a vocal tag by a then-unknown Katy Perry ) went on to become a No. 1 video on MTV's TRL, along with having a solid radio presence, it also became the band's unprecedented 4th number one video on Total Request Live.

" Bombs " generated moderate controversy with its music video, as demonstrated by MTV's refusal to air it.

Kane starred with singer Monica, as Billy Ryan in MTV's Love Song in 2000.

MTV also moved up the telecast to 8pm instead of 9pm, to avoid competing with President Barack Obama's speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and this was early for MTV's targeted young audience.

These performances were augmented with appearances on MTV's Half-Hour Comedy Hour, Comic Strip Live and Caroline's Comedy Hour.

Kid Rock was cited for assault on Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on September 9, 2007 at MTV's Video Music Awards, and pled guilty.

TBS founder Ted Turner started the Cable Music Channel in 1984, designed to play a broader mix of music videos than MTV's rock format allowed.

In 1984, MTV also launched the MTV Video Music Awards ( later to be known as the VMA's ), an annual awards event that would come to underscore MTV's importance in the music industry.

It was included on MTV's 1999 list of the " 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made " at # 89.

The music video of Bailey and Collins rehearsing their collaboration went to the top of MTV's video playlist and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance in 1985.

On August 24, 2002, MTV2 aired an 18 hour long special called VMA Winners, which aired the most memorable winning videos from the entire history of MTV's Video Music Awards, in anticipation of the award show on August 29, 2002.

Leading up to the launch, CTV aired MTV Unplugged: Alicia Keys in early October 2005, and MTV's New Year of Music on New Year's Eve 2005.

Burton went on to present at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards and MTV's Iced Out New Year's Eve.

Siddharta was voted another Band-of-the-Year Viktor award by their domestic audience and received perhaps the greatest recognition for their accomplishments so far with the nomination for MTV's Europe Music Award ( EMA ).

The publicity generated by MP3 blogs crossed the line from the internet to TV in early 2005, when Music ( For Robots ) was featured during MTV's Total Request Live program for bringing the Hysterics, a Brooklyn rock band composed of four 14 and 15 year-old high school students, to the network's attention.

It ranked 13 on Rolling Stones The 100 Top Music Videos, 72 on VH1's 100 Greatest Videos, and 88 on MTV's 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made.

Not long after this, both Moakler and Barker made an appearance at MTV's 2007 VMA's ( Video Music Awards ) on September 9.

Music ( For Robots ) has been featured by many publications and programs in the mainstream media including Wired magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, the Fresno Bee, The Guardian, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and was the first MP3 Blog to be featured in primetime TV during MTV's TRL program in early 2005.

The video was nominated for Best Rock video on MTV's Video Music Awards.