Month: August 2017

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  POW..!     MTV  Lands is South Florida  1981

Where were you when you first found MTV?

Back In 1981, most of us just began to receive cable TV.

Most evey home in South Florida had this Cable Changer in their home.

How many of you Hot-Wired this box to receive premium channels?

The cable channel changer box slid sideways back-n-fourth  and came with a Long extended  12 foot wire that would reach across the room.  Remember?

Many small local Cable Carriers back in 1980s , such as Storer Cable, Jones Intercable, etc,  were first to introduce and supply cable to South Florida.

Think back to 1981 while sitting on your couch, sliding the Cable Channel Changer back-n-fourth landing it on channel  ‘R’  not knowing what ‘R’  was..

Many people in South Florida found channel ‘R’  to be some odd cable channel that broadcasted videos of actual bands playing music On Stage..

At first, nobody actually knew what that channel was named,  most people just knew that channel ‘R’  played  videos of bands that were heard on the local radio and bands that were Never heard of..

Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles was the first video MTV broadcast back in August of 1981.  That was the beginning of something really great.  If you love the music of the 80s, the videos that went along with them were like icing on the cake.  It was all new territory and video directors seized the opportunity with classic 80s excess.  Below are just a sampling of the thousands of fabulous music videos from the 80s.  We’ve tried to narrow down the 1000s of songs that make the 80s so awesome to a manageable 100 top songs of the 80s.

( Did you have you’re MTV Wired for Stereo) ?

 Local Girls  Graham Parker

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