The Launch of MTV

On August 1st 1981at 12:01am MTV was launched and the first ever music video to appear on the channel was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

In the beginning the channel was solely used to play music on 24/7 but now a days you can see live award shows and view reality television programs such as “My Super Sweet Sixteen” and “The Hills”. New reality shows like these have created a new brand of celebrities whereby they are famous for doing nothing apart from being on this show. The format of these kinds of shows are supposed to show the raw reality of the characters lives, the cameras follow the characters around all day for a couple of months so that they can get a good amount of footage to put in the series.