The first day of MTV focused on younger artists. But these four veteran acts managed to make their presence felt on that ...

MTV launched on August 1, 1981. The Music Television Network gave a new dimension to songs as artists had the opportunity to pair videos with their music. Some of the videos wound up being the fabric ...

On This Day: Iconic '90s Band Achieved the Most Legendary First for MTV originally appeared on Parade. MTV dominated the music industry for an incredibly long time. Before widespread use of the ...

At the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, MTV employees congregated around half a dozen TV sets in Fort Lee, New Jersey. No cable operator in Manhattan yet carried the inchoate station, so ...