That first broadcast day of MTV

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by petep9000

Why did MTV stop playing music and now focuses on reality programming? .

Surely is because of money and sponsors. I guess music videos are not so watched as in the past. I have no idea why, but I guess that's the reason because if videos made money, they would play them again for sure! Money is the reason for almost everything in media.

Watching the videos list from that first day, I would say my favorites were:

"Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles
"Sailing" by Rod Stewart
"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
"The Best of Times" by Styx
"Passion" by Rod Stewart
"Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac
"Rapture" by Blondie

They played more than 1 song from Styx, Rod Stewart, etc.. but there were far more better videos (pre-mtv) from Queen, Yes, Abba, Stones, etc.. that they could have included