http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/m-from-mtv-is-missing_n_3821890.html

That was entertaining and so true.
 
MTV has certainly lost there way since the 90's.....I used to enjoy watching Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, and of course all the music videos. Now, just a waste of a channel. 

 

 
The first video ever played by MTV.

I read somewhere that in the 80s, the record labels were heavily subsidizing MTV.  A change to the FCC regulations stopped it.  Without the subsidy, MTV couldn't stay in business just providing music videos.

 
Wanna know when MTV was no longer MTV and became something else?   Not yesterday.  Not when the idiot editors at Huffington Post wrote more of their pathetic claptrap they call articles.  MTV was no longer MTV the day My so-called Life aired its pilot.
 
MTV's downfall from something worth paying attention to all started with this crappy show.

 
This early history of MTV is one of the most enjoyable books I've read. It's full of great stories about those wild, early days in which music videos were a new thing, nobody really knew how to make them and so you ended up with some really quirky and whimsical videos as a result. Music videos were certainly a lot more fun back in those days, that's for sure. The book also contains hundreds of anecdotes about the making of some of those classic 80's videos. Lots of craziness and debauchery. The kind of book you can just dip into anywhere and enjoy, although it took me weeks to read it because I kept stopping to look videos up on YouTube. 

OK, I guess nobody else is going to do it ...
 

There is some extra credit there too

Clap Trap is something men in the 50's were not afraid of. Being invincible and all. 

Another honorable mention