MTV's excuse wore thin quickly. Tellingly, they broke their own rock-only rule. The fact that the first rap song on MTV was performed by Blondie just goes to show why Black entertainers weren't happy.

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When MTV launched in 1981, it changed pop culture forever, ... The ’80s Game With Martha Quinn, and hosted a public television show, The 80’s (My Music), in 2017.

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The host for much of the show's run was Matt Pinfield, a very respected DJ with deep connections to that emerging scene in the late '80s and early '90s. He only worked for MTV from 1995 until 1999 ...

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MTV News began in the late ’80s with “The Week in Rock,” a show hosted by Kurt Loder, who became the first MTV News anchor. Additional reporting by Jem Aswad, a former MTV News editor. Read ...

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