MTV Second Hour August 1st, 1981

n August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia (which took place earlier that year) and of the launch of Apollo 11. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching classical tune composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with the flag featuring MTV's logo changing various colors, textures, and designs. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history.Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's "One small step" quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound. At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it. Kenneth M. Miller is credited as being the first Technical Director to officially launch MTV from its New York-based Network Operations facility. The first music video shown on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. The second video shown was Pat Benatar's "You Better Run". The "MTV lettering" differed on its first day, and included record label information like year and label name. MTV's effect was immediate in areas where the new music video channel could be picked up. Within a matter of just a couple months Record shops in areas where MTV was available found themselves selling music that the local radio stations were not playing, such as Men at Work, Bow Wow Wow, and Human League.

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

yurune (2011-04-20)

Awesome! The first hour was great! I hope there's more after this one. Thanks!

yurune (2011-05-11)

is there a 3rd hour? I like pretending it's 1981. :D

P2P-ftw (2011-05-16)

no 3rd hr i have as of yet, sry rune!

P2P-ftw (2011-05-17)

Heya rune, if you see this message, post a throw away email addy, I'm gonna hook you up with an invite to a site that deals with retro video things (this for example), and other rarities you dont usually find on the open net.
ANYONE WHO SEES THIS (include a link to a pic documenting a good torrenting ratio and an email to send an addy too, if you want an invite)

yurune (2011-05-26)

Hey P2P-ftw, sounds great, thanks! :D
stevelovesdegrassi (at) yahoo . com

fsahm (2011-05-30)

anon_e_male (at) !Y

MicroAccount (2011-08-09)

pacaa2000 (at) yahoo dot com
PTP-ftw, please shoot me an e-mail and I'll send a screen grab of my ratio! Would love to see more like this! Thanks for the first two hours!