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

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 ".

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

In September 1985, Sting performed " If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.

In an interview with MTV, Poe stated: " Radio was not interested.

After relocating to the UK in the mid-1970s, Mulcahy made successful music videos for several noted British pop acts — his early UK credits included XTC's " Making Plans For Nigel " ( 1979 ) and his landmark video for The Buggles ' " Video Killed The Radio Star " ( 1979 ) which became the first music video played on MTV in 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.

" Yesterday " was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year.

( As mentioned previously, the US MTV broadcast, the ABC Radio Network and BBC Radio 1 simulcasts were stereo ).

In 1983, Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment began divesting its assets and spun off Nickelodeon and two other channels, MTV and the now-defunct Radio Television Station ( RTS ) into the newly formed subsidiary ; in order to increase revenue, Nickelodeon began to accept PBS-style corporate underwriting for its programming.

He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, BRIT Awards and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.

Wanting to give fans something new after the massive radio and video airplay for not only the 6 singles but also the Album tracks that Radio DJs were playing off the album, the band performed " Tear It Down ", a Hysteria B-side at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.

Around this time Horn, Downes and Bruce Woolley ( Tina Charles's guitarist ) co-wrote " Video Killed the Radio Star ", which was released by The Buggles in 1979 ; it reached # 1 in the UK Singles Chart and was the first music video to be played on MTV.

" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.

In 1994, the band appeared together with 70 members of the Alexandrov ensemble at the 11th annual MTV Music Awards, at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, where they sang the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic Sweet Home Alabama.

Radio City Music Hall, site of 13 VMAs, including the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards | first.

Other singles released from Crimes of Passion were " Treat Me Right " ( US # 18 ) and the Rascals ' cover, " You Better Run " ( US # 42 ), which gained some later fame when it was the second music video ever played on MTV, after the Buggles ' " Video Killed the Radio Star ".

The Buggles ' hit song " Video Killed the Radio Star ", the first video ever to air on MTV, contains the lyric " Put the blame on VTR ".

Then, four months later in September, they were at the Radio City Music Hall in New York to receive the coveted " Moon Man " trophy for winning the 1997 MTV Asia Viewer's Choice Award, which made Eraserheads the first ever Filipino artists to win the award.

The concert was televised by MTV and numerous radio stations ( e. g. Radio Fritz ) broadcast it live.

The fisrt ever concert " simulcast " was Frank Zappa's Halloween shows ( October 31, 1981 ), live from NYC's Palladium and shown on MTV with the audio-only portion simulcast over the FM " Starfleet Radio " network.

CP24 also shares news resources with other Bell Media-owned outlets, including sports updates with TSN ( and TSN Radio 1050 ), business news updates with BNN, MTV News with MTV Canada and entertainment news updates with eTalk ; in addition CP24 also sometimes shares news reporters with CTV and CTV Two.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Radio stations nationwide began to play hits by artists like TKA, Sweet Sensation, Exposé and Sa-Fire on the same playlists as Michael Jackson and Madonna.

Freeform radio is particularly popular as a college radio format ; offshoots include the recent ( and somewhat controversial, due to its lack of on-air personalities ) eclectic-pop format known as variety hits, which plays a wide assortment of mostly top-40 music from a span of several decades ; and podcast radio, a mostly talk format pioneered by Infinity Broadcasting's KYOU station in California and Adam Curry's Podcast show on Sirius Satellite Radio.

** Radio ESKA ,-which plays international hits, along with Polish music.

However, the U. S. charts were about 12 months behind the British music charts and so Wonderful Radio London positioned itself as playing tomorrow ’ s hits today.

East Tennessee Radio Group owns and operates the Sevierville area's primary local radio stations, WPFT-FM " 106. 3 THE MOUNTAIN " ( Classic hits of the 1960s and 1970s, now sports talk ) and FM 105. 5 ( adult contemporary music, known as " Mix 105. 5 ").

The former Radio Hamburg building, the St. Petri HausRadio Hamburg is a private commercial radio station set up in the ' 80s to play the big hits of the times.

On August 28, 2009 they headlined the NME / Radio One tent at Reading Festival ( and August 30 at Leeds Festival ), playing a string of their old hits, such as " Epic " and " MidLife Crisis ".

* Skaga FM, formerly known as Radio Hirtshals, is a local radio station that plays domestic and foreign hits from the 80s, 90s and onwards, and reports on current events happening within the municipality of Hjørring.

Summer released On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II, her first ( international ) greatest hits set in 1979.

After the release of the On the Radio hits album, Summer wanted to branch out into other musical styles in addition to disco, which led to tensions between her and Casablanca Records as Casablanca wanted her to continue to record in the disco format while Summer wanted to sing more rock and pop-based music.

All the Buggles ' hits — including " Video Killed the Radio Star ", " Living in the Plastic Age ", " Elstree " and " I Am a Camera " — were co-written by Horn and Downes.

One of his jokes, beyond wearing the large glasses, was that he was " a camera ," consistent with his hits, " Video Killed the Radio Star " and " I Am A Camera ".

It included all the hits and a new single " Joe Fabulous " penned by Rodgers which hit number one at Classic Rock Radio and Top 20 on mainstream rock radio in the US.

Despite these hits, the label was known for country music artists such as Boots Woodall's Radio Wranglers, who also recorded for Capitol Records, and Southern Gospel artists such as the Rangers Quartet and Speer Family.

The 1990s troll doll fad also included The Trollies Radio Show, which was a direct-to-video musical with trolls singing hits, such as " Kokomo ," " Woolly Bully ," and " Doo Wah Diddy ," as well as some original songs.

Conway reached No. 1 on Radio and Records many times ; quite a few of his No. 1 hits in the latter years of his career reached the top of this publication while peaking in the top five in Billboard.

In 1994, Joyner was signed by ABC Radio Networks to host a nationally-syndicated program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, featuring Joyner and a team of comedians and commentators reporting and discussing the latest news and sports of the day, and playing popular R & B songs from the 1970s through the 1990s as well as contemporary R & B hits.

Her 1985 album Nina Hagen In Ekstasy fared less well, but did generate club hits with " Universal Radio " ( No. 39 USA ) and a cover of " Spirit In The Sky " and also featured a 1979 recording of her hardcore punk take on Paul Anka's My Way, which had been one of her signature live tunes in previous years.

The album also marks a distinct transition from hard rock and progressive rock into a more accessible, radio-friendly style and consequently, a significant expansion in the band's sales with hits such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill " seeing considerable radio airplay.

Until 2010, CIQM-FM London, Ontario used the adult hits jingles instead due to the fact the station had an AC format, while the KBS Radio stations in British Columbia ( e. g. CJAT-FM ) use the adult hits jingles instead.

As of 2012 both WVEE and WPEG are the only CBS Radio Urban properties remaining, as two other Urbans had shifted to Rhythmic: In Washington, D. C. ( which is a larger radio market ), WPGC-FM, listed as an urban on CBS Radio's website and CBS Radio, was a Nielsen BDS urban contemporary reporter from 1997 to 2012 when BDS returned the station to the rhythmic contemporary panel ( WPGC had been a Mediabase Rhythmic reporter since that trades ' inception ) in part due to WPGC being a hybrid of both formats ( also known as " Churban ," describing a Rhythmic playing R & B / Hip-Hop hits catering to a multicultural audience ) despite the D. C ./ Baltimore area fielded by WKYS / WERQ-FM ( both under Radio One ownership ).