On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time, 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 rock tune composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with the flag featuring MTVs logo changing various colors, textures, and designs. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star. This was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR.[12] MTVs lower third graphics that appear near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years, but these graphics differed on MTVs first day of broadcast; they were set in a different typeface and included record label information such as the year and label name. The first VJ to hit the air...Birmingham AL Native Alan Hunter.
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