When Clinton played the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show, he was described by some religious conservatives as " the MTV president.

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV on October 27 and ended on December 29.

She was the only character created at the request of MTV, who wanted a female character who could tolerate and handle the duo.

" Locked Out " was the album's first US single and received airplay on MTV and VH1.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

Between 1986 and 1992 there was an independent third channel but it was jointly owned by Yle and MTV ; only in 1993 did MTV get its own channel.

In 1981, the cable television network MTV was launched, originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music.

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with " Whip It " getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.

), the unedited video could not be shown on MTV, and an edited version was substituted.

In Britney: For the Record, Britney's father Jamie Spears was making her cheese grits on the morning of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

MTV News claimed: " With his trademark rose-colored shades, black leather jacket, shoulder-length hair, ripped jeans and alternately snarling and crooning vocals, Joey was the iconic godfather of punk.

He performed on MTV Fashionably Loud in Miami, then on MTV's Wanna B A VJ doing " My Name Is Rock " and was the DJ for TRL on the Spring Break Special as well as a judge on Say What Karaoke.

On May 22 Kid Rock's June 8, 2008 concert at Germany's Rock AM Festival was aired on every MTV affiliate around the world on their debut show " World Stage ".

The book in which this claim is made was first published in 1971, ten years before MTV first came on the air.

The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles ' " Video Killed the Radio Star ", and the second music video shown was Pat Benatar's " You Better Run ".

Within a couple of months, record stores in areas where MTV was available were selling music that local radio stations were not playing, such as Men at Work, Bow Wow Wow, and Human League.

Its most noticeable difference was that black artists received airplay that MTV initially ignored.

The first video played on that channel was " Video Killed the Radio Star ", following in the footsteps of MTV.

Shortly after TBS began Night Tracks, NBC launched its music video program called Friday Night Videos which was considered network television's answer to MTV.

The original purpose of MTV was to be " Music Television ", playing music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, guided by on-air personalities known as VJs, or video jockeys.

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

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.

MTV Networks has launched numerous native-language regional variants of MTV-branded channels to countries around the world.

In the United States, MTV was launched and music videos began to have a larger effect on the record industry.

* August 1 – MTV ( Music Television ) is launched on cable television in the United States.

This television channel, that launched on April 18, 1998, was aimed at children ages 6 – 12 ; the network's main competition were Turner Broadcasting / Time Warner's Cartoon Network and Boomerang, and Viacom / MTV Networks ' Nicktoons.

Video Concert Hall, created by Jerry Crowe and Charles Henderson, launched on November 1, 1979, was the first nationwide video music programming on American television, predating MTV by almost three years.

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.

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.

In 1985, MTV launched the channel VH1 ( then known as " VH-1: Video Hits One "), featuring softer music, and meant to cater to an older demographic than MTV.

MTV Europe was launched in 1987, and MTV Asia in 1991.

During this period, MTV launched channels around the world to show music videos produced in each local market: MTV Latin America in 1993, MTV India in 1996, and MTV Mandarin in 1997, among others.

MTV itself now provides streams of artists ' music videos, while AOL's recently launched AOL Music features a vast collection of advertising supported streaming videos.

This United States-based television channel aimed at preschool-aged children, originally launched as a joint venture between MTV Networks and Children's Television Workshop ( a. k. a. Sesame Workshop ) before Sesame Workshop opted out of the venture in 2002, has only programming promotions in lieu of commercials and is usually carried on a digital cable tier and the basic tiers of satellite providers.

Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids ( commonly referred to in on-air usage as Nickelodeon GAS or Nick GAS ), was an American digital cable and satellite television channel that was launched on March 1, 1999 as part of MTV Networks ' suite of digital cable channels.

Like MTV and Nickelodeon before them, VH1 also launched spinoff digital networks as part of The Suite From MTV.

* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

The first official home video releases of Beavis and Butt-Head were two VHS tapes titled There Goes the Neighborhood and Work Sucks !, distributed by Sony Music Video and MTV Home Video in 1996 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

After playing the US Festival, and with the aid of the new medium of MTV, the band found rapid success in the United States.

Their eponymous album released in 1989 featured " Brother of Mine " which became a MTV hit and went gold in the United States.

Many cable networks operate from Argentina and serve the Spanish-speaking world, including Utilísima Satelital, TyC Sports, Fox Sports en Español ( with the United States and México ), MTV Argentina, Cosmopolitan TV, and the news network Todo Noticias.

Daria was first shown on MTV in the United States.

2006 marked the first time the Junos were broadcast internationally through MTV2 in the United States and several affiliated MTV channels in other nations.

The music video for " Venus " received heavy airplay on MTV in the United States.

On March 6, 2007, MTV wrote an article titled " Who's Joining The Army " in which they stated Edmonson County has the highest Army enlistment rate of any county in the United States.

This, its adoption by the style-conscious acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV, led to success for large numbers of British synthpop acts, including Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, in the United States.

A video jockey ( usually abbreviated to VJ, or sometimes veejay ) is an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as the United States ' MTV, VH1, Fuse TV, non-commercial TVU, Canada's MuchMusic, and Asia's Channel V. Other alternative names for a VJ include " VDJ " ( Video DJ ) and " MVJ " ( Mobile VJ ).

In America they are associated with the Second British Invasion of British New Wave groups that became popular in the United States due to the cable music channel MTV.

* August 1 – MTV debuts on cable television in the United States, playing music videos 24 hours a day.

Profanity was censored during MTV broadcasts of the series in the United States.

In the United States, The Young Ones started airing on MTV on June 5, 1985.

The video for it became popular on MTV in the United States.

It received tremendous airplay worldwide, played frequently in the Baywatch television series, is graced in several feature films, received heavy rotation on MTV as well as MTV ’ s top video playlists, and gets regular airplay today on classic rock radio stations throughout the United States.

In addition to the original MTV2 channel in the United States, there have been a number of other MTV Networks channels around the world known as MTV2.

These stations were soon followed by MTV Europe and Sky from the United Kingdom, while the broadcasts of Super Channel was taken over by TV Plus, due to the lack of an actual agreement with EPT.