MTV

MTV (Music Television) was originally one of the most influential music video stations of the modern era. Originally created to play and promote music videos  whilst directed by on air hosts. Sadly MTV these days shows more reality based shows than music, but it still can be argued that it helped to change the idealistic view of music videos forever.

MTV's sister channel's like MTV ROCKS don't show much reality shows as they arespecific to the genre and tend to promote bands in the same way. Perhaps the sister shows are much more adapted to music videos today than the original MTV is now.

The first video to ever be shown on MTV was The Buggles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs&safe=active

This exposure from being broadcast on tv (whilst rather ironic) gave the band a few number ones in certain countries from France to Sweden. Thus MTV helped to make the video rather popular, and has used it thereafter to link it to MTV forever more.

Another song that was heavily featured on the tv station was Bjork. (I'll copy her name later so it looks right, its a bit odd at the moment)