A lot of us know it began August 1, 1981. But did the hoopla begin right away?

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It was a big success with its demographic -- white suburban kids with cable subscriptions.  Maybe a fifth of all households had cable TV in August of 1981. 

It was a big success with its demographic -- white suburban kids with cable subscriptions.  Maybe a fifth of all households had cable TV in August of 1981.


That's not bad! Yes, I also heard there were few colored artists on there when it began.

We wanted MTV in Canada, but never got it until 2000

We wanted MTV in Canada, but never got it until 2000


I got my MTV in 2008.  ;D

I think it took off after a year when musicians like Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna started making music.

I can't believe it's been 32 years since MTV debuted.  :o

It was a big success with its demographic -- white suburban kids with cable subscriptions.  Maybe a fifth of all households had cable TV in August of 1981.


I had regular TV.

I think it took off after a year when musicians like Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna started making music.


Some people call them The Big Three or The Trinity of the 80s!

I can't believe it's been 32 years since MTV debuted.  :o


Tomorrow is Mtv's birthday!

Now MTV and to a lesser extent Much Music, which premiered on August 31, 1984,  are former shells of themselves.  I haven't been able to watch Much Music since the Bell Media take over.  I can't even watch MTV or Much Music anymore because of all of the ridiculous stuff that they have on.
I remember when Much Music couldn't air Ren and Stimpy para CRTC rules because it didn't have anything to do with music.  Now Much Music has tonnes of crap that nobody in their right minde would watch.

Some people call them The Big Three or The Trinity of the 80s!



and the way people started dressing like them during the 80's.

Tomorrow is Mtv's birthday!


I still miss the days when we could just watch music videos instead of some stupid reality show!

I still miss the days when we could just watch music videos instead of some stupid reality show!


Yeah no kidding.  MTV Canada was airing music videos until about 2007 when Moses Zaimer, who owned Chum-City Limited, and said "hey my channel was airing music videos first."  Now I can't watch either channel. :P

We wanted MTV in Canada, but never got it until 2000


But we had Much Music, started in 1984. I use to watch it in the 80s...for some artists.


I think it took off after a year when musicians like Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna started making music.


And I used to change the channel if videos from either of those 3 came on.

But we had Much Music, started in 1984. I use to watch it in the 80s...for some artists.

And I used to change the channel if videos from either of those 3 came on.


What was Much Music? ???

What was Much Music? ???


It was Canada's music video channel.  It started on August 31, 1984 as a speciality channel along with TSN and First Choice Super Channel, now The Movie Network.  It was the same as MTV in that it aired music videos and concert specials and had Video Jockeys.  I think that after the Bell Media take over it was a former shell of itself.  :P

MTV is now this:

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MTV is now this:

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That's right.  :)

MTV is now this:

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You know I agree with that logo. Whatever became of watching videos 24/7?  ::)

It was Canada's music video channel.  It started on August 31, 1984 as a speciality channel along with TSN and First Choice Super Channel, now The Movie Network.  It was the same as MTV in that it aired music videos and concert specials and had Video Jockeys.  I think that after the Bell Media take over it was a former shell of itself.  :P


I saw the website and I was saying where the hell is the old school music? This now is just effin' garbage!  :P

I saw the website and I was saying where the hell is the old school music? This now is just effin' garbage!  :P


God I want to get rid of Much Music so badly.  I don't even watch it anymore.  :P

God I want to get rid of Much Music so badly.  I don't even watch it anymore.  :P


They should just call themselves Less Music

MTV is now this:

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Whoever did that was genius! ;D

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I heard of Much music before. Now I know what it is.

I still miss the days when we could just watch music videos instead of some stupid reality show!


Here's why...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysyZF-DZFY

;D

Here's why...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysyZF-DZFY

;D


I've seen that before.  :)

But we had Much Music, started in 1984. I use to watch it in the 80s...for some artists.


That we did, and Much Music was a great channel.  Remember Erica Ehm?  OH YEAH!!!

That we did, and Much Music was a great channel.  Remember Erica Ehm?  OH YEAH!!!


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She was my favorite, and I liked Sook Yin Lee too, she was cool. Christopher Ward was alright.

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She was my favorite, and I liked Sook Yin Lee too, she was cool. Christopher Ward was alright.


Christopher Ward, singer of the 1978 classic Maybe Your Heart.  I have this on 45 lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E1VgsoS6i4

I always liked J.D. Roberts.  I remember back in the 00s, I tuned into CNN and saw American Morning with John Roberts.  I was like HOLY SHIIT, IT'S J.D. ROBERTS!  He was the host of The New Music with Jeanne Bakker before that show made the move from CityTV to Much Music.  I remember seeing an interview on The New Music that J.D. gave with Mike Reno in 1980 and they were in a Laundromat, and you could see the greasy looking owner of the place in the back with a cigar in his mouth looking all confused why this man was being interviewed lol

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I loved Rick Campinelli who's now a staple on ET Canada.  :)

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JD Roberts.  :)

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I loved Rick Caminelli who's now a staple on ET Canada.  :)


I remember when he got chosen as the temp, he was Rick the Temp for the longest time.  I remember he used to do the 80s weekends with Bill Welychka. 

Rick Campanelli went on to ET Canada.  Where did Bill Welychka go?  He's a news anchor for the local news channel in my hometown lol

I remember when he got chosen as the temp, he was Rick the Temp for the longest time.  I remember he used to do the 80s weekends with Bill Welychka. 

Rick Campanelli went on to ET Canada.  Where did Bill Welychka go?  He's a news anchor for the local news channel in my hometown lol


He was on Much More Music for a little while and then he was on City TV in Edmonton before City TV was sold to Rogers.

God I want to get rid of Much Music so badly.  I don't even watch it anymore.  :P


I don't even watch MTV that much anymore either. :P

I've seen that before.  :)


Me Too.

I don't even watch MTV that much anymore either. :P


I, seriously, haven't watched Much Music since Tony "Master-T" Young was a VJ there.  :P

I, seriously, haven't watched Much Music since Tony "Master-T" Young was a VJ there.  :P


I haven't watched it since the late 1990s.

I, seriously, haven't watched Much Music since Tony "Master-T" Young was a VJ there.  :P


Once in a while I watch a bit of those stupid Jersey Shore shows or Pregnant And 16 or some other crap! ::)

Once in a while I watch a bit of those stupid Jersey Shore shows or Pregnant And 16 or some other crap! ::)


16 and Pregnant.  I watched that but I think it's getting more and more ridiculous.

Much Music VJ's who went somewhere ...

J.D. Roberts (1984-1988) - CBS News Correspondent, CNN News Anchor, then FOX News Anchor
Rick Campanelli (1996-2005) - E.T. Canada
Rachel Perry (1998-2001) - VH1
George Stromboupoulous (2000-2004) - CBC Newsworld, CBC's The Hour, now on CNN
Amanda Walsh (2001-2004) - She was in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, War Games: The Dead Code and my dreams lol
Leah Miller (2004-2009) - Host of So You Think You Can Dance Canada and a host on the E! Canada channel

Denise Donlon: 1985-2000 she became the Exectutive VP of CBC Radio.

16 and Pregnant.  I watched that but I think it's getting more and more ridiculous.


Not only is that show horrible, it's also extremely depressing (well I feel like it is). But the worst part isn't even that MTV is playing these shows, it's the fact that now a lot of these reality "stars" are becoming tabloid regulars/fodders. It's like even if you don't watch MTV anymore (which is understandable), they are still everywhere on magazine stands and news outlets.

Sorry if this is OT but...ugh  8-P

Not only is that show horrible, it's also extremely depressing (well I feel like it is). But the worst part isn't even that MTV is playing these shows, it's the fact that now a lot of these reality "stars" are becoming tabloid regulars/fodders. It's like even if you don't watch MTV anymore (which is understandable), they are still everywhere on magazine stands and news outlets.

Sorry if this is OT but...ugh  8-P


No it's not off topic.  I find that music video channels should be playing music videos.  :P

16 and Pregnant.  I watched that but I think it's getting more and more ridiculous.


Why talk about pregnancy on a "what used to be" a music channel?  ::)

No it's not off topic.  I find that music video channels should be playing music videos.  :P


Right, Celeste and not some stupid shows like 16 And Pregnant or Jersey Shore which both should've died a long time ago. :P

If only MTV would come back full time 24/7 and put these reality shows on a different network not MTV or VH1.

If only MTV would come back full time 24/7 and put these reality shows on a different network not MTV or VH1.


And Much Music and Much More Music.  :P

Who wants their MTV? ;D

Who wants their MTV? ;D


I used to but I don't want it anymore.  :P

I used to but I don't want it anymore.  :P


They could take it back unless they convince me that MTV will kill off all and I mean ALL reality shows.

Who wants their MTV? ;D


Maybe if it was 1984!

Who wants their MTV? ;D
I can live without it.

I can live without it.


Me too.  :) Unless they keep it to music videos I don't see how it can survive the next 10 years? :(

Maybe if it was 1984!


in a time machine.

Me too.  :) Unless they keep it to music videos I don't see how it can survive the next 10 years? :(


I don't see MTV surviving until 2023.

I don't see MTV surviving until 2023.


I see MTV surviving the apocalypse!  Zombies, cockroaches, and MTV!
8-P

I see MTV surviving the apocalypse!  Zombies, cockroaches, and MTV!
8-P


That's what they say about Cher. :-X

They could take it back unless they convince me that MTV will kill off all and I mean ALL reality shows.


No chance on that ever happening.  MTV is now RTV

That's what they say about Cher. :-X


But she's still here.

No chance on that ever happening.  MTV is now RTV


Retarded? ;D

Retarded? ;D


Howard! Not appropriate!

No chance on that ever happening.  MTV is now RTV

Retarded? ;D
Reality Television, Howard!

Retarded? ;D


You're strangely amusing. 8)

But she's still here.


And will be still be here in about 20 years!

Howard! Not appropriate!


Sorry. :(

Reality Television, Howard!


I thought it was a different word, sorry about that guys.

And VH1 debuted 4 years later.

I thought it was a different word, sorry about that guys.


:( I thought you already knew how much that word disgusts me? Please don't let that word slip out again.  :(

Okay, I think he's got it.  Take it easy, folks.  Eeeaaaasssy.

8)

Okay, I think he's got it.  Take it easy, folks.  Eeeaaaasssy.

8)


:D Thanks Max.  :D

Howard: HHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!! I know you didn't mean any harm by it.  I just recently made my position on using that word very clear and I was unsure if everyone got the memo.  ;)

:( I thought you already knew how much that word disgusts me? Please don't let that word slip out again.  :(


I apologize.  :)

:D Thanks Max.  :D

Howard: HHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!! I know you didn't mean any harm by it.  I just recently made my position on using that word very clear and I was unsure if everyone got the memo.  ;)


Thanks for understanding, now let's get back on topic.  :)

When did you realize MTV was going downhill? ???

When did you realize MTV was going downhill? ???


Probably around early 2000s when MTV made its debut in Canada.  At first they were showing music videos.  And then it slowly started to deteriorate from there.  :D

Probably around early 2000s when MTV made its debut in Canada.  At first they were showing music videos.  And then it slowly started to deteriorate from there.  :D


MTV went downhill probably during the early 1990's

I think Mtv partly became popular because of Michael Jackson. I mean videos like Billie Jean and Thriller in 1983 help Mtv become a household name.

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Now that was a popular night on MTV, I did watch "Thriller" live on it's premier broadcast, especially I am a fan of the director John Landis.

Now that was a popular night on MTV, I did watch "Thriller" live on it's premier broadcast, especially I am a fan of the director John Landis.


According to most sources the 'Thriller' video was released on December 2, 1983.

According to most sources the 'Thriller' video was released on December 2, 1983.
..and makes it to be the 30th anniversary later this year.

I think Mtv partly became popular because of Michael Jackson. I mean videos like Billie Jean and Thriller in 1983 help Mtv become a household name.

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and people imitated his moves and his looks.

According to most sources the 'Thriller' video was released on December 2, 1983.


Wow, almost 30 years. :o