FINALLY
Birthday: MTV isn’t planning to mention it, but the cable channel turns 25 today. It was on Aug. 1, 1981, that the channel played its first music video on a single cable outlet in northern New Jersey -- “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by the Buggles.
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