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Good Rockin' Tonight
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Was this the one with Terry David Mulligan and/or Stu Jeffries?  Wow - flashback!

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Usually on MTV although I also watched Friday Night Videos if I could stay up that late and that show that aired on weekend nights on WTBS (I forgot its name).  These days I hardly ever watch videos since videos have become hard to find on MTV, VH1 and now CMT, which has been ruined since it was taken over by the owners of MTV and VH1.  I don't have digital cable, which has MTV2 on it.  But I wish I did.  (I'm a cheapskate.)
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MTV2 isn't that great either.. VH-1 Classic has the best 80s stuff, and virtually no commercials.. if you were going to splurge and get satelite, that's the video channel to make sure you get.. MuchMusic isn't that bad, it's at least music related, which is more than I can say about Mtv in the past few years. I also like the MTv X channel, which is all heavy metal, though some of the new stuff gets a little annyoing (Papa Roach can die now please)

I watched Mtv in the early 80s.. and some show on the USA network I can't remember the name of, something like Videos 2000 or something like that..

of course, growing up outside of Boston, I got you all beat.. we had an over the air video channel for a couple of years, V-66!  When MTv began their anti-competitve tatics, and prevented the music companies from letting other channels show videos, they actually would go out and film their own videos (which I think were better than the slick jobs some of the big groups were doing by that point).  They also showed more urban music, so you'd actually get to see rap music that wasn't in a Blondie song. I've got a page about it of course: http://www.worcestermass.com/cgi-bin/dynamix/v66.shtml

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Was this the one with Terry David Mulligan and/or Stu Jeffries?  Wow - flashback!
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The one and the same! I know what you mean about flashback! Sheesh just after I posted that message I had this weird memory of watching GRT and being p*ssed b/c right in the middle of the video for "Blaze of Glory" Stu Jeffries does a voice-over about some stoopid contest they were running and completely ruined the video (I was taping it)...I never actually got a copy of that video until Jovi released their Cross Road collection....I was SO angry for that!! I'm over it now though ;)

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Friday Night Videos and MTV for me! Hey TV9, Where in rural Maine?
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I lived in northern York County.  Limerick, to be exact.  You from that area?

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Usually on MTV although I also watched Friday Night Videos if I could stay up that late and that show that aired on weekend nights on WTBS (I forgot its name).  These days I hardly ever watch videos since videos have become hard to find on MTV, VH1 and now CMT, which has been ruined since it was taken over by the owners of MTV and VH1.  I don't have digital cable, which has MTV2 on it.  But I wish I did.  (I'm a cheapskate.)
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I have a satellite and MTV2.  It is not all it is cracked up to be, the only videos I ever see are the Rap videos.  I don't like it.  I actually like VH1 for the Behind the Music and VH1 Classic.  

I used to watch both MTV and Friday Night Videos.  I would turn off the lights and lay on my bed to watch FNV.  I miss those days...

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I lived in northern York County.  Limerick, to be exact.  You from that area?
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I spent a lot of time in Maine in general - Northern, Central and Southern. Portland is good for the busy-bodies. But I found Winthrop is nice and quiet. I like it there.  :)

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I watched Mtv in the early 80s.. and some show on the USA network I can't remember the name of, something like Videos 2000 or something like that..

of course, growing up outside of Boston, I got you all beat.. we had an over the air video channel for a couple of years, V-66!  End Quote

I started out with Friday Night Videos too.  Mom always had insomnia and was up anyway.

I remember V-66 too!!!!! ;D  ;D

...And boy, was I ticked when they turned into some home shopping network.  >:(

Cable tv came late to our part of Boston. When we finally got it, my brother and I watched almost nothing but MTV, except on late weekend nights, when USA had something called Night Flight.  They had a comedy, I can't remember the name of it now which had the original Japanese version of "Power Rangers" or a show very much like it, dubbed over with new dialog which had little or nothing to do with the original story line.  It was usually a bit racy.

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Like most teens I was never home during the day and the parents ruled the TV at night.  In the early 80's I would catch MTV on Sat morning in the basement and around 4:30-6:30am on Sun while I was rolling my 300 papers for my paper-route.  Can you imagine how many trips I had to make to deliver 300 Sunday papers.  <Oh the horror>


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Wow! 300?  I used to do a paper route in the summer when my buddy, who did it regularly went to Nova Scotia on vacation.  That was 40 daily and 45 Sunday.  I "kidnapped" a shopping cart from the local grocery store so I would only have to do one trip. (Isn't that a felony in some states?  Shhhhh!)  But at least I earned my own money for clothes and music in the 80's.   :)