• First music video shown on MTV: The Buggles – ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’
• Black screen when a MTV employee would insert a tape into the VCR
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MTV
• Kabel typeface – used as MTV’s lower third graphics (overlay/captions) at the start and end of music videos became recognisable for the following 25 years
• The 1980s saw more music video being played on channels such as HBO (Home Box Office) and SuperStation WTBS
• Colour Barrier
o Early years, few black artists were featured
o First non-white act to play was ‘The Specials’
o People questioned MTV for the lack of black artists being aired
o MTV’s reply was that as MTV was started originally as a rock channel, finding African American artists to fit the channel’s format was tricky
o MTV denied racism
