MTV 1982 Advertiser Promotion Tape with VJs

[doordangle]

bow days they wld pay us to watch them ... so they are just left with the sheep

[gayboytommy20010]

now that they have satellite radio u can hear Nina ,Martha,Mark,on 80s on 8sR.I.P.jackson

[llawfhionn]

Folks, MTV was always about making money, as has the music industry from its foundations. However, they did promote a better quality product in the early 80s.

[gayboytommy20010]

I LIKE THE MTV THEY HAVE NOW THAT ONE SUCKS.ALL THOSE ROCKERS ARE DRUGGIES HIP HOP FOREVER

[patoheavy]

@gayboytommy20010 hip hop are druggies too so don't discriminate you asshole, mtv was better in the 80s and 90s, now it sucks with all the realiti shit my sweet sixteen, jersey whore and the music is just plastic with no talent and they can't sing live because is always a playback.

so fuck you gayboy faggot

[gayboytommy20010]

MTV SUCKS NOWDAYS

[gayboytommy20010]

R.I.P. jackson

[gayboytommy20010]

R.I.P. JJ

[hazor777]

Damn,Nina Blackwood looks so smokin HOTT (!!) in this!!

[PlanoFool]

I don't remember Alan Hunter being so small.

[ninjafretshadow]

this proposal was their death shroud.they were bought out.read it on wikipedia.it is pathetic.

[paolitna28]

woow 1982 i was 1 yr awww!!!!

[amym1106]

Thank you for posting this.

[johnnybeane]

I have one of those orange MTV buttons @4:27

[daddygreenjeans421]

makes you think what the fuck happened to mtv?

[loveunderlaw]

They need to update this promo, & just tell people that MTV now offers GARBAGE to it's viewers!!!

[sjk72]

Wow MTV VJ's, way the fucking sell out!

[fgldnglbs]

@sjk72 Yeah, I know they had to make a living, and maybe they were still on the cutting edge, but I feel like I just watched a clip from "The Parallax View."

[namffocevets]

18-34 year olds masturbate in the dark

[Nadleh]

@namffocevets That is totally untrue....I now do it with the lights on as I am comfortable with myself.....heh heh

[namffocevets]

@Nadleh lol.what hand do you use left or right .i use bolth.and the other question is .with you eyes open or closed ha ha

[Heegoop]

@namffocevets Will I suppose these days, they do.

[jwgreek8606]

Who was the voiceover of MTV and where is he now?

[Nostalgia4me]

How about Mtv 3...for people in their 30s? Petition MTV.

[eyeh8nbc]

@Nostalgia4me There is an MTV3 called "MTV Tres", with Spanish music. It was on a couple low-power UHF stations here for a while.

[MegaAldoN]

different times...

[imachildofthe80s8089]

I must've liked what a lot of the older kids did as I was 2 when I started watching MTV(seriously) I remember Billie Jean Hungry Like the Wolf and Girls Just Want to Have Fun were the oldest I had watched. I don't think there was anything that ever got me off in front of the tube. if you were a child of the 80's you were watching MTV and Nickelodeon.(sure they still have the 2 today but it's just not the same) the music is few and far between(wow we get maybe 5 videos at 3am with the rest talk?)

[grobby2]

Wow, wow, wow, wow. Okay I get it. I know they had to sell comerical slots, I know they had to sell advertisments, I know they had make money. I had somehow hoped, however, that early MTV in some way had not sold me to the MAN. I taugth my students for years about the targeting of young people for money. I had no idea that it started with my generation. I feel ill and want to vomit. Please oh please dont tell me that Miami Vice and Mork and Mindy sold me down the river as well!

[crazicupcake]

HAHAH NINA BLACKWOOD!

[BigDaddy1968]

I wonder if the SUCKERS from the 80's - now in their 40's realized their Fav "VJays" referred to them behind their back as 'Targeted SPENDERS"?

haha

Big Daddy

Making it Plain...

[carohoop]

You apparently have no business sense. This is how they sold their idea. MTV is what it is today because sponsors bought into it and people watched it. How do you think they sell Superbowl ads for $1million for 30 secs?

[BigDaddy1968]

"You apparently have no business sense."

And you apparently are stuck in a time warp.

A 30 sec Super Bowl ad goes for TWICE that these days.

haha

Goofy MTV-Apologists...facts wrong then....facts wrong NOW!

LOL

Big Daddy

Too Easy

[imachildofthe80s8089]

Keep it nice!

[hopefullyjh]

I don't care at all about this argument, but I just have to point out that anyone who signs every message they write with a little signature tailored to the message is just a tool. And don't even get me started on someone who overuses their caps lock key.  God.

[BigDaddy1968]

" I just have to point out that anyone who signs every message they write with a little signature tailored to the message is just a TOOL!!"

Hmmm...not sure who you are referring to.

Sincerely,

BIG DADDY

haha

PS What a DOUCHE! lol

[imachildofthe80s8089]

Get a LIFE!

[pgy002]

2. Make a wish

3.Close your hand (fist)

4. Hold your hand at heart for 5 seconds

5. Send this to 3 more videos

6. Tommorrow will be the best day ever

it actually worked

Money- you will find a wad of $200 in cash

Love- Your crush or lover will kiss you or ask you out

[coffycup75]

I love this! Back then, MTV was a treat I could only watch in my friends' homes after school (until the mid-80s), but at least I could get Night Flight, Friday Night Videos and Richard Blade on the local Video One.

Today if I were a kid, I wouldn't care if I couldn't get it in my home.

[thregar]

thanks for posting this - its easy to forget how different MTV seemed when it started.

[braziliano77]

good times.

[GVike]

Funny they said they were targeting the teens to 34 yr. olds... now, they are targeted ONLY TO TEENS.

[ctracy1]

You aren't kidding..nowadays, an 18 year old probably represents the "older" end of the spectrum of their viewers!

[Heegoop]

@GVike Yeah to teens that are no good and that will grow up to be TOTAL LOSERS.

[cllamont]

Odd they dont mention that they will refuse to play videos by black artists as if blacks arent in the youth demographic that they are boasting. Ironically, MTV was made my black artists like Micheal Jackson, Prince, and Lionel Richie.

[fitzpatrickgf]

You mean African American musicians who run to Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson everytime they don't get their way and call everyone a racist? They gave you MTV like the riots of 1967 gave you Detroit and theyr are both look like the apocalypse. I'm glad the current economy has finally proven what happens when politicians pass laws to give minorities everything for nothing. Who's gonna bail you out now? Where is Jesse and Sharpton? They seemed to have fallen off the earth. That's good!

[eyeh8nbc]

I do remember MTV getting some flack around 1983 because they didn't play a lot of black artists.

[drfulmore07]

I think that's bullshit. MTV did play black artists like Prince,Tina Turner,Jon Butcher and The Bus Boys before Michael Jackson came along.

[AdamStabelli777]

And then Michael Jackson came along.

[Nokorola]

6 minutes of Commercials an hour!!!!

[Nokorola]

Or 8...

[eyeh8nbc]

On a channel you pay for there should be ZERO commercials! You could get MTV for free on C-Band satellite for a while but they eventually started scrambling it.

#1 reason why I don't have cable- I refuse to pay for channels that show commercials.

[KeithS4789]

You are not paying for the channel! You are paying for access to the cable/satellite service. The "service" then pays its providers for access to their programming.  This price that the "service" pays is not enough for the channel to make a profit thus it must use advertising to make up the difference in operating cost and desired profit. If everything was commercial free on paid television then our number of programming options would be limited and our bills would be substantially higher.

[eyeh8nbc]

Key words being 'desired profit'. Why don't the local TV transmitters charge me for access to THEIR programming? (With what passes for programming nowadays, they ought to be paying ME for allowing it into my living room!)

Everyone uses the excuse that it'd cost more if there were no commercials. And I'm sure MTV now runs more than 6 minutes of commercials per hour, and close to zero minutes of music.

[KeithS4789]

Television evolves to each generation. As people age they will complain more about how different television has become. 1950s tv was not like 1970s tv just like 1980s tv is not like 2000s tv. And in the future, to the shock of many, 2000s tv will not be like 2020s tv. MTV cannot play music videos anymore because as the songs change the audience loses focus and this risks losing the viewer. There are over a hundred different choices on most people's televisions today thus thecause for change

[imachildofthe80s8089]

Yeah too many channels and nothing to watch...I guess that's why either I'm on here or reading a good book.

[Robman7]

imachildofthe80s8089, EXACTLY!

[SongSubtitles]

MONEYMONEYMONEYTV

[Pittoop]

This is when MTV was worth watching. I wouldn't be wearing an MTV shirt or button today cuz I wouldn't want people to think I'm a fan of today's shitty MTV, cuz I'm not. I'm only 17 but I honestly think that in the 80s, MTV knew Music Television.

[thatdudecozz89]

yeah, I do agree...Even though I'm 19, but I prefer MTV in the 1980s/1990s over MTV of today.

[pannoni1]

But in 1990 MTV was already starting to go downhill with stuff like Yo! Raps; that was the age of "VH1". 1982-mid 1988 were the best times on MTV.

[Heegoop]

@thatdudecozz89 You say it, bro. I'm 22 going on 23 and I prefer the 80s-90s MTV way more over today's MTV. Believe it or not and call me a pansy if you'd like I am a man and I absolutely abhor death metal. Can't stand it at. I would listen to Madonna over Pantera any day.

[JunkyardKid]

mmm...Martha Quinn!

[ugmodude]

for any of the millions of posters on YouTube who wonder "WTF happened to music?" here's your answer. MTV drove it underground and nearly killed it. Thankfully, the internet saved it.

MTV, corporate whores...they suck now, and they sucked then...

[midnightclubx]

What's the name and artist of the song that starts at 4:06?

[ugmodude]

that's Dave Mason, '60's guitar god, former member of Traffic...He also played backing track on the original Hendrix release in 1968, and, as we all know, the song was written by Bob Dylan.

[SpamNapkin]

TIME TO RELATE TO SOME 18-24 YEAR OLDS

[ycdtotv2001]

Who knew the original VJs sold out a year after they first started on MTV?

[signcrash]

@ycdtotv2001 This was from the beginning. They sold out BEFORE they first started!

[SpamNapkin]

Oh how they've changed.

[KENVAIL]

why don't they have an MTV CLASSIC channel for us older folks that hate the new mtv? lol

[mpc3po]

AMEN KENVAIL!! just role the entire first 3 years of MTV over and over again on one channel...hmmmm ...can it be done!!?? another 'advertising promo video' is coming to mind....LOL

[oiyabastard]

it used to be vhi now vhi 2 but it all sux

[TwozexySugar]

@KENVAIL duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh is called VH1 Classics

[Heegoop]

@KENVAIL They have VH1 Classic but hey a MTV Classic would totally help.

[loveunderlaw]

@KENVAIL Yeah man, right on!

[zoegirl58]

yeah what happened to the MUSIC TELEVISION why do they have MTV1 MTV2........ VH1 what is that all about?

[Heegoop]

@zoegirl58 Uh, no offense but VH1 is now shit, too. All they play is reality like MTV does.

[Slance1]

DAMN it was so awesome.

[pvx]

Amen, not to mention all the worthless "reality" crap they air, without a single music video in sight.  There's always Fuse, but lately they're starting to turn into an MTV clone. :(

[electrogeek77]

Now they can appropriately be renamed "Marketing Television", since there's more advertising than music.

[heathazed]

Yes, and this was a preview of what they were ultimately wanted and did achieve. There is a lesson to be learnt from this video.

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@electrogeek77 Now, MTV isn't even called "Music Television". They might as well just dump the MTV branding and just re-launch it as "Youth Culture Television", and launch a new MTV, modeled after MTV2 (the Canadian feed).