what mtv does exclude is music that is not rock and roll. >> mtv came out with no consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. >> i'm just floored by the fact there are so few black artists featured on it. why is that? >> we have to try and do what we think not only new york and los angeles will appreciate but also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. >> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >> when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? >> music shouldn't have color. i don't believe in that. i don't want it labeled black or white, i want it labeled music. ♪ >> 1983, motown has this big tv special, motown's 25th anniversary. at that time "thriller" is out and "thriller" is doing well. but michael jackson couldn't get "billie jean" on mtv. ♪ she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene ♪ >> when the rest of the world was going crazy and he can't get on mtv? michael jackson? come on. >> when he does th

it's not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. so that's selling. >> when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain facade. >> mtv's ratings are surprisingly small. but those who do watch, mostly teenagers and young adults, buy a lot of records and tapes and cds. and they buy the most of what they see the most. >> recently, two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtv's offices to screen their new video and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday, and then we would have our music meeting, and we would look at all the videos and decide who was going to get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock, and i pretty quickly realized that the music that they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv, i was completely blown away. ♪ i said, listen, they really are incredible and we need to give them a

. >> i want my mtv! >> i want my mtv! >> i want my mtv! ♪ >> a new concept is born. the best of tv combined with the best of radio. this is it. welcome to mtv music television. the world's first 24-hour stereo video music channel. >> music television, what a concept. mtv was, pow, in your face. you were not going to turn us off. >> mtv did nothing but play current music videos all day long. so let me get this straight. you turn on the tv and it's like the radio? >> i'm martha quinn. the music will continue nonstop on mtv music television, the newest component of your stereo system. >> when mtv launched, a generation was launched. 18 to 24-year-olds were saying, i want my mtv. i want my mtv videos. i want my mtv fashion. >> yo. >> mtv was the first network really focused on the youth market. and becomes hugely influential because they understand each other. the audience and the network. >> mtv had a giant impact, visually and musically, on every part of the tv culture that came next. >> freeze! miami vice! ♪ >> friday nights on nbc are different this season thanks t

. >> hi, we're def leppard on mtv. music television 24 hours a day. >> reporter: and then, you buy a corvette. >> ah, yeah. >> reporter: december 31st, 1984. an afternoon drive in that corvette would change the course of rick's life. the crash happened fast. it was a violent rollover. his right arm broken. his left arm gone. this picture taken of rick the first day out of the hospital. it would be the first day of the rest of his life. relearning how to do everything from water-skiing and shooting pool to playing drums with just one arm. the band stood by rick, and when he was strong enough, def leppard went on recording and touring. releasing hysteria with a chart-topping hit "love bites". the band's most successful album to date. >> so this is where it all happens. >> reporter: today with the band on a pandemic pause, we visited rick and his wife lauren at their california home. in their recording studio, rick shows us his drum kit and how the technology allowed him to sound like he did before the crash. the foot ped

okay, we're going to hit the road and do the same thing we have always done and then the video hit mtv and that's when everything changed. and i remember, like, me and kurt used to share a room, sitting there waiting for the video to come on television and just to see our faces on mtv, on television, that was enough. we were, like, oh, my god, we arrived, we made it. but we had no idea what was going to happen next and things happened really, really quickly. >> that's amazing. the idea -- the imagery of you sitting in a room, watching your own videos with kurt cobain. you say you ywrote the chapter about kurt cobain last. that must have been hard. >> yeah, i was scared to write it. the book is -- it is written in short story format. so they're, like, little glimpses of different times in my life. and i knew that that was a really important part of the story. but i was -- i also sort of knew what people might expect me to write or what they wanted me to write. and rather than write something that was, like, you know, logistical or practical, i wanted to write more about loss. and mourni

[ cheers and applause ] >> this is a very special moment, the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! ♪ that's great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes ♪ ♪ lenny bruce is not afraid ♪ >> i'll always remember new year's eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing "it's the end of the world as we know it" by r.e.m. ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ i feel fine ♪ it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. >> happy new year! >> so we wake up, it's 2000, we're all alive, and we're still in the middle of teen pop mania. ♪ don't want to hear you ♪ ♪ ain't nothing but a heartache ♪ >> boy bands were selling so many albums. ♪ every little thing you do ♪ ♪ never seems enough for you ♪ >> this is the biggest year in pop music history in terms of sales. >> britney! britney! britney! >> you have britney spears selling 1.3 million copies of "oops i did it again." in the fi

from the early 1980s new york art scene, to mtv music videos, to television theme songs, it's a band that has never stopped crting. newshour weekend's christopher booker caught up with the founding members of they mig be giants as they get ready to release a new alemanbubad rkon ew >> reporter: the world of they might be giantis a curious one. from esoteric projects like their dial-a-song service that allowed anyone to call in and listen to one of their recordings on an answering machine, to their steady, beloved presth ienheen eccentric output of high school friends john linell and john flasburg never seems to slow. ♪ fan department because our ntuot slwhaaydo tthunisff ws as that do great work. ertain point, os aitket lm we've had enough of you. you can leave now." contemporaries that we came up with who had much greater success than we have, have definitely gotten the, like, reality check. like, wouldn't be a bad idea to just let it go. >> cut your losses. >> yeah. and that's-- i mean, to a little-- to a certain extent, we've-- it's always been a bit of a struggle for us, to a c

. ♪♪ ♪♪ kennedy: i saw them perform that live at mtv and he was wearing blue metallic bomb and was the best thing i've ever seen in my life, one 100% true. last night, the winner in a bunch of people said debbie they didn't like my dancing. all right, time to panic so supply chain food shortages, they are getting worse every day and snap surprised they are starting to have real trouble getting beer and wine to stores around the country, meet could be next. we are going to be a bunch of vegans by christmas. the problem is lack of packaging. food and beverage companies, they are not shipping products, no fear, no styrofoam, no steak. what is the biden administration doing about this and what will you miss the most when there's nothing left to buy? the panel is back, party panel, tim carney, spike cohen, kim. when will people really start panic and acknowledge that there is a supply chain crisis? >> i might be the first one, we buy lots of stuff because we have lots of people. kennedy: how many children do you have now? >> at least six as up dinner tonight. kennedy: well done. >> it's a t

ratings for mtv went down. i don't think anyone will buy into superman man as a trans sexual and not supporting the american way. stuart: do you have a book with your wife this christmas. >> i do. we have a fox news book. there is the talent of fox news, where people are sharing stories about christmas and fond memories when they have grown up, how they got married and how they melded those traditions together and kept them alive. everyone's unique stories about how they celebrate christmas. bill hemmer, dana, ainsley, brian, stuart -- stuart: i'm not in there. >> you didn't respond to my email. stuart, let's do this. you didn't get back to me. stuart: you did not. >> i thought i did. stuart: we have a hard break. thanks for being with me for the hour, sean. if you're not careful you will come back and do it again. >> thanks for having me, stuart. stuart: good stuff. still ahead we have kayleigh mcenany, steve forbes and senator joni ernst. senator schumer has a solution for dealing with the understaffed tsa, b

. >> britney broke her silence in an mtv documentary filled during the circus tour. >> when i tell them how i feel, they hear me but they're not listening. they hear what they want to hear but not listening. it's bad. i'm sad. >> that shows a self-awareness that she is able to see the way that she's feeling so she's not some cookie person caught up in her thoughts and unable to see herself thinking. she's actually outside of herself looking at herself and saying i'm sad right now. >> she was clearly able to think for herself, articulate what her needs are, articulate, you know, what she was feeling and expressing and that really was very sad and troubling. i did not see anything other than a woman traumatized, a woman being abused by the family law courts. >> get her. >> remember, the standard for conservatorships is when a judge deems someone incapable of caring for themselves or managing their finances like someone with dementia or a profound physical injury or alzheimer's. since 2008, britney released four studio albums, toured the world four times, had a four-year las vegas residenc

you worked at mtv but maybe before that? >> kennedy: the first notable person i had my picture taken with was high school, i visited new york city with my fellow theater nerds and paul schaffer took a picture with us. i was such a huge letterman fan, it made my life. >> richard: i didn't have my picture taken with them but i went on "the today show" it in third grade for giving veterans and i had janet jackson read my valentine. >> greg: one to have worked out anyway, age difference. >> jesse: i got a photo with the philly phanatic, he kissed me when i was young, it was cute. with the costume on, the big, fat nozzle. >> sandra: you're jogging my memory, i went to a brunch in sixth grade, downtown chicago and there was carol moseley braun, the first african-american female senator. >> greg: i can beat that. >> jesse: the philly phanatic, come on. >> greg: everyone had a bozo the clown picture, i went to a car show at the palace in san francisco and always have celebrities there, i had my picture taken with martin milner and t

brian williams premiere music journalist leads all kinds of mtv news complex and interviewed musical luminaries like drake, jay-z and will smith. >> brian b. dot miller. >> i know your name because i know you for real. b dot hosted our podcast on title and hosts the show "brackets" on complex and we're joined by author barbara res. she worked in the trump administration and spoke out about him. the book "tower of lies, what my 18 years of working with donald trump reveals." welcome to both of you. >> thanks for having me. >> i love it. i love being physically here. >> i know, right. none of that zoom stuff. >> are you a clone? >> no, this is me. i'm a real person. >> just making sure. >> my fall back is real quick. >> okay. >> the haters of candy corn. candy corn haters need to fall back. candy corn is back. >> candy corn is free and free is my favorite f word. >> barbara, what is your list? >> mitt romney. he's a man that's got to fall back not just now but send him back to 2012. he comes out with this thing to explain to people what a trillion is. so he says i want you to understan

was showing david bowie's — because mtv was showing david bowie's china girl. that is what it felt like — bowie's china girl. that is what it felt like last night, and that has not happened for a really long time. and there _ not happened for a really long time. and there is only a handful of people — and there is only a handful of people like adele who can have that effect _ people like adele who can have that effect on _ people like adele who can have that effect on the whole world, she is pretty— effect on the whole world, she is pretty much the biggest act on the whole _ pretty much the biggest act on the whole planet. i pretty much the biggest act on the whole planet-— pretty much the biggest act on the whole planet. i have to ask, i know ou have whole planet. i have to ask, i know you have been _ whole planet. i have to ask, i know you have been to _ whole planet. i have to ask, i know you have been to adele's _ whole planet. i have to ask, i know you have been to adele's house, i whole planet. i have to ask, i know i you have been to adele's hous