MTV's First VJs Reflect on The Network at 30: 'We Played Rod Stewart Like F*cking Crazy'
MTV turns 30 years old next Monday, and to celebrate that, The New York Post caught up with the network’s first VJs; getting them to reflect on what it was like when it launched in 1981.
There’s some great stuff in this piece. The first words spoken on MTV were “And I’m Alan Hunter,” because of a mistake at the tape uplink center on Long Island, and when the network launched there were only about 250 videos to choose from.
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