{"id":14157,"date":"2016-08-01T23:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/video-killed-the-radio-star-mtv-debuts\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:17:10","slug":"video-killed-the-radio-star-mtv-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/video-killed-the-radio-star-mtv-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Killed the Radio Star; MTV Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2FMtvmoon.png\" rel=\"lightbox[4218]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/6e7dc__Mtvmoon-300x189.png\" alt=\"Mtvmoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/6e7dc__Mtvmoon-300x189.png 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mtvmoon.png 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/a>August 1, 1981<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMTV%23Music_Television_debuts\" target=\"_blank\">MTV, presumably standing for \u201cMusic Television\u201d, launches on cable TV<\/a>. As most people know, after the introduction sequence, the first video played was \u201cVideo Killed the Radio Star\u201d by The Buggles. However, a bit of trivia is that the second song played was \u201cYou Better Run\u201d by Pat Benatar. <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtv.com\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a> had an immediate impact on the music industry and was an iconic symbol of the technology-driven 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/6e7dc__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/01\/video-killed-radio-star-mtv-debuts\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 1, 1981 MTV, presumably standing for \u201cMusic Television\u201d, launches on cable TV. As most people know, after the introduction sequence, the first video played was \u201cVideo Killed the Radio Star\u201d by The Buggles. However, a bit of trivia is that the second song played was \u201cYou Better Run\u201d by Pat Benatar. MTV had an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4237,4236,1771,1422,461],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-debuts","tag-killed","tag-radio","tag-star","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}