This is a truly fabulous book that chronicles the rise and fall of MTV in the words of the people who were actually involved. That includes executives (TV and music), VJs, artists, managers, and fans who became any of the above. It's a sort of an oral history, and it will make you look at MTV l...
MTV’S AOR FORMAT COMES UNDER FIRE IN 1983, TIME AND ROLLING STONE RAN COVER STORIES on MTV, almost simultaneously. MTV was finally being noticed by the mainstream press, and the mainstream press was unimpressed. Both articles took disapproving tones. Time sniffed that “the majority of clips ...