midnight, August 1, 1981: MTV begins broadcasting with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ9AnNz47Y&feature=related
the first time I ever saw MTV was about a year later; I had gone to a local teen club one afternoon to give a friend a lift home after his crew had left the place without him. I walked in to look for him (the place was an arcade in the daytime) and saw this video on the big screens mounted on the walls:
any MTV memories?