MTV

MTV is an American cable television channel. It serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, which is part of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. The channel launched on August 1, 1981, and originally aired music videos and related programming as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys, or VJs. MTV, as one of the American cable channels available in other countries, eventually gained a massive cult following, becoming one of the major factors in cable programming's rise to fame and American corporations dominating the television economy in the 1990s.