MTV launched on August 1, 1981, celebrating itself outside the Bugles' hit -The video killed the Starweet Radio. It was quite assumed and brazenly for MTV's suits to assume that their new network immediately separated the old media landscape, but eventually proven somewhere properly. MTV has become, for prolonged magic, a brand new cultural regiment for young Gen-X. The network not only accidentally displayed hip music videos - a medium that exploded in popularity thanks to MTV's machinations - but carefully curated, allowing viewers to appreciate certain genres, labels or artists who may not know them differently. Some early MTV researchers may be reminded of the 1983 IRS Records. The hosts would introduce blocks of videos and even demanded requests. The term VJ entered the pop lexicon.

Also, to round off their program blocks, MTV led more segments of news and documentary, updating pop music viewers as it happened. The tone of these shows was generally informal, but news readers and documentaries took their work seriously, trying to be as fundamental and detailed as possible. MTV was immediate and important, allowing the pop world to expand and diversify and undermine the former world Old Pejola roll blues.

By 1987, the network was bigger than ever, and its awkward, satirical, fast stance began to inform culture in its entirety. A stable celebrity grew on MTV, and the children who were there for the first night of broadcasting were now at college. The network became self -conscious, and many of their shows served as a comment on the TV itself.

Case in point: in 1987 the first script program on the network debuted. It was a playing show called "Remote Control", a series of Trivia in which competitors would sit in La-Z doctors and choose strange named TV TV categories with their hand-held remote controls (something at the novelty at the time).

The "Remote Control" hosted Ken Ober and presented Colin Quinn as the announcer of the show. In the first season of the show, Marisol Messi acted as co-host as Vana-White, while Curry Wourer took over the second and third season. It was replaced by Alicia Coppola in Season 4 (Alicia is, by the way, is not related to the Francis Ford Coppola dynasty), and finally by Susan Ashley in Season 5. Competitors would sit in their light chairs to the right, while the size television with questions was on the stage on the left; Think of "Jeopardy!" But with no class.

Ober said the set was actually his personal basement and that he had turned him into a game studio in a game to fulfill his dream of hosting the game. The song to open the theme is presented by Ober obsessed over TV, staring at the idiotic box when his parents quarreled as a child, or when women were trying to make progress as an adolescent. The theme of the show was that raised on TV saturated our brains with garbage water and made us suffocate (and MTV was happily involved in this). Instead of true knowledge, we only had a trivial pop culture. And if that was the case, we might have fun. There was a note of cynic under the whim.

The play was pretty loose, in terms of her attitude (old repetitions on the Internet can be seen), with Ken shooting wisely and competitors do not take the game very seriously. Ober will read questions (usually with wisdom), but sometimes the crew will bring a scene or sing a song that the competitor had to interpret. Sometimes, competitors will only have to withstand the humiliation of the schoolyard as a wet will or purple nurse.

My favorite part of the "Remote Control" was the snack break, which was just an interview with Trivia where competitors were given food. As with nickelodeon, it was thrown on their heads.

Several celebrities will go through a "remote control", many of them comedians. Some episodes are characterized by young people of Dennis Larry and Adam Sandler. Guest celebrities will pass occasionally to help with clues, including Nipsi Russell, LL Cool, "Strange Al" JankovicBob Eubanks and Jerry Matters. Later in the series, the show became popular enough to boast charity episodes in which celebrities will compete. Jankovic and LL Cool jered against the comedian and Mtv vj julie brown. Red hot chili peppers appeared on the show, as well as Barry Williams, Eva Plumb and Susan Olsen, all earlier than Brady Banc.

And don't make a mistake, the "remote control" was a hit. His irregularity was contagious, and her trivia was legitimately difficult; The "Remote Control" made a head full of Trivia TV to feel temporarily useful. By 1989 There was a game on the 1989 remote control board and played in 1990. A few years later, you can still be found Early Web Pages for "Remote Manager"Discovering Kiddos what the Internet looked like for us.

The series lasted five seasons for four years, finally leaving the air waves in 1990. The "Remote Control" left a legacy behind. It has proven that MTV not only has its own unique attitude, but that its attitude can be used in original ideas. Their original shows began to include strange animated shows such as "Liquid Television" next year and original scripted content As "dead at 21 years" Until 1994. MTV started planting its music video blocks with real shows, play and cartoons. The network has become less musically oriented and more like a current show variety. For a few precious years, there was everything.