Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MTV launched on August 1, 1981. The Music Television Network gave a new dimension to songs as artists had the opportunity to pair ...

MTV is known for debuting quite a few stellar music videos for high-charting songs in pop, rock, and hip-hop. Country songs didn’t make it to MTV often in the early days of music-videos-only ...

Reports from late last year about the demise of MTV were overstated; but it got us thinking about the network’s legacy and ...

MTV hits the airwaves with the video for Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star.” Most of the country has no idea it’s happening. Dec. 2, 1983 Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video debuts, and MJ scares ...

You might be surprised to know, however, that several acts/artists who filled out the programming that day had been around the block and then some. These four veterans took their place among the ...

As a teenager, it’s hard to imagine a world without MTV-a world barren of pop icons, visually imaginative videos, game shows, after school programs, steamy nighttime soaps and bawdy awards shows.