think, well, we did it again. there was more of everything in tv by the 80s. your opportunity for watching stuff is increasingly vast. nbc presents real people. my name s michael lee wilson. it dawned on me the application of a small motor on a pair of roller skates might really be a great thing. somebody once said that each one of us will be a star for 15 minutes, and i think that that s probably going to happen. american culture used to be a culture that celebrated privacy. in the 1980s as we re watching celebrities play out on stage, hey, i want to join, too. all the world becomes a stage. you start seeing shows like real people or the people s court. the people s court. where reality television is taken one step further. to see more tv producers had to come up with new and different ways to give them television. don t be stupid!
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demand for sports, and the 80s began to provide. thank goodness. cable television is continuing to grow. it s estimated it will go into 1 million more u.s. households this year. with cable television suddenly offering an array of different channel choices, the audience bifurcated. that s an earthquake. 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.