MTV at 25: How 'Music Television' Changed Its Tune With the Times

And I'm Steve Ember.  Some people love it.  Some think it ruins young minds.  And some remember the days when it was all music.  This week our subject is twenty-five years of Music Television -- better known as MTV.

In its early years, MTV was a lot like radio with pictures.  Radio stations had DJs, disk jockeys; MTV had VJs, video jockeys.  The VJs spoke to the audience between videos.