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40 years ago today, #MTV premiered. In celebration, I’m going to provide a thread about the iconic channel’s creation. Join me, won’t you, for a stroll down memory lane?
.@MarthaQuinn , 1 of the OG VJs, recalls the first time she ever heard about the channel, in July 1981: “I was at [my internship at WNBC] one afternoon when a guy in the office said, ‘You should be a V.J.’ I said, ‘What’s a V.J.?’
And he said, ‘It’s just like being on the radio, but it’s on television.’ To which I replied, ‘What do you do during the records?’ He said, ‘It’s videos, fool.’ I couldn’t imagine what he was talking about” (qtd. in archive.vanityfair.com/article/2000/1…).
