MUS 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Epic Records
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+no longer needed a dj for each station because a national program director could determine everything. +lots of local djs lost their jobs to national personas/characters. Radio finds competition in cable television for the first time. First channel to exclusively feature music around the clock. Early videos were lip synced performances and not particularly sophisticated. Record labels, pros, etc. would take tapes to the mtv office on 6th avenue. People would leave the tapes in a basket to get them viewed. Mtv selected the tunes they thought were good and put them on the air. +early on they did not inform the contributor if they would be played or not. +model changed with time and is very different now. First video to be played on mtv was video killed the radio star (1980) by the. +mtv was neglected by man musicians at first because musicians thought it was.
