Everybody knows the very first video MTV played was The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star" (how'd that work out?), but the 2nd video ever? Pat Benatar's "You Better Run".
MTV, Music Television, celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday. It premiered at midnight, August 1, 1981. Here is how they launched that night, with a rocket launch, and the spaceman placing the MTV flag on the moon. Thus, why they'd give out moon man awards each year, until 2017, when they changed it to "moon person." Here are the first 2 hours of MTV...
How did MTV celebrate this 40th anniversary milestone? By doing NOTHING. They ran "Ridiculousness" all day. MTV2 was old "Fear Factor" and "Key and Peele" episodes.