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First video shown on MTV

First video shown on MTV
Who
The Buggles
What
First
Where
United States
When
01 August 1981
Launched on 1 August 1981, the first music video aired on the Music Television network (based in New York City, USA) was the appropriately titled “Video Killed the Radio Star”, a UK No.1 for The Buggles (UK duo Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn) in 1979. The first video seen on MTV Europe, launched on 1 August 1987, was “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits (UK), which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. The track starts and ends with the lyric “I want my MTV”. MTV Europe reaches more than 210 million homes across Europe.