MTV

Buggles (cite). While at the time, no one could predict the success of MTV, this song seemed to foreshadow the impact of this new music television. Music videos, while having been around for a long time, had never had a format all to themselves on television. MTV provided artists who could harness the full capabilities of the format a way to become instantly successful. It made artists successful with the masses of people that watched them on television, who continued to spurn the success of the channel. After being inspired by cultural circumstances of a new generation, MTV had a major impact on the…

What happened at 12.01 in the morning on August 1st 1981 would define music television and change the way a generation felt about music. MTV headquartered in New York City was the first channel to feature music video’s 24 hours a day 7 days a week invaded the airwaves of cable television. With footage of the first space shuttle launch countdown of Columbia and the launch of Apollo 11 as the words Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll played over the footage, followed by the MTV theme song. From…

but also for the artist that was performing or if their song was being played. Then on August 1st, 1981 the cable television channel MTV (Music Television), aired for the first time and changed the game forever (Graham). MTV brought in a new generation of music and television that had never been seen before. Although would not be realized right away, MTV told people what music was popular/what they wanted to listen too and helping artist to gain popularity, as well as setting a future for the…

As technology changed over the years so did the way music was brought to the “consumers”. One of the most significant changes to how people listened to music came in the early 1980s and was a part of the formula that led to the second life of Aerosmith, MTV. MTV brought the music and music videos to the worlds living rooms. It became one of the fastest-growing cable channels in history when its subscriptions exploded from 2.5 million to over 17 million within two years (Larson 280). It raised…

MTV Case Study MTV is an American television channel that started in 1981. It is also called Music Television, and was owned by Viacom Media Networks. More importantly, it was found by John Sykes, Tom Freston, Les Garland, and Robert Pittman (MTV Launches). These four-intelligent individuals created an incredible source of music videos with different genres. Many people in the United States were amazed with MTV because people can watch and listen to their favorite musicians and celebrities. The…

Big hair, neon clothes, and parachute pants are some things you might about when you hear someone mention the 1980s. Nothing was understated and image became more important than ever, especially in the music world, during this decade. New music and new inventions in the 80s would change the way we listen to music forever. The creation of MTV was a big deal in the 1980s. MTV was the first television channel to only showcase music videos, the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” being the very…

Pragmatics are the uses to which texts are put. Altman writes “Genres are not only formal arrangements of textual characteristics; they are also social devices that use semantics and syntax to assure simultaneous satisfaction on the part of multiple users with apparently contradictory purpose.” (195) Morreale says that genres are the interaction between the producers, viewers, and texts, viewers may read the text and have totally different views of the text. The Osbournes the producers tried to…

portable radio, the television, the Walkman and more recently, MP3 players, music has given communications technology a purpose and even allowed these mediums to a serve the more fundamental and abstract functions of bringing the community together. While most media of music consumption pre-1980s were limited to audio and the occasional feature film, the debut of Music Television (MTV) in the fall of 1980 changed the face of music permanently. There’s no music video more apt to discuss this…

In the starting years of MTV, the majority of bands that used the new medium were British. British bands had already been experimenting with the style and fashion, “experimenting with the emergent medium for some time and arrived with stylish videos in hand” (Cateforis 54). Unlike American bands, these British bands had already adapted to a style suitable for television. After punk music, British bands kept the electronic instruments and “distinctions between automated and human performance were…

Jersey Shore was a popular TV show on MTV between 2009 and 2012 about “Guidos”, or Americans of Italian descent in their twenties who rented a house together on the Jersey Shore, which was aimed at teenagers and people under thirty. Jersey Shore is affecting our culture in a negative way because the majority of people that watched it might have thought differently about Italians and think that’s all that they do. At one point, Jersey Shore became one of the most watched TV shows and I think it…