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{{quote| ''I want my MTV!'' -- [[Dire Straits]], "Money For Nothing".<ref>The phrase originated with an ad campaign designed to get cable providers to carry the network in its infancy, but took off as a [[Memetic Mutation]] all its own.</ref>}}
 
{{quote| ''Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.'' -- The very first lines ever spoken on MTV.}}
 
On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 AM, pop culture was changed forever by a new cable network that introduced a brand new idea -- a TV channel that played [[Music Video Tropes|music videos]], 24/7. That network was MTV. Fittingly, the first video they ever showed was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
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