Blog: Consequence Of Sound

On August 1, 1981 at 12:01 a.m. Music Television was launched by an order from John Lack, who at the time was the executive vice president of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment. "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll." At that moment, a sparse group of individuals, 2.5 million cable subscribers in New Jersey, were able to see an altered account of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in which the American flag was replaced with MTV's flag. As former MTV Networks CEO Tom Freston explains of the footage, "It was public domain. We said, 'Hey, let's rip off man's [...]