upstairs. hey, dave, i was just curious. is there any way i get mtv on this? actually, steve, that s a that s just a monitor and all you can get on that is our show. oh. that s okay. there was a degree of cynicism that was needed in the art form at that time, and it s a cynicism that just became common sense after a while, because it never got old. i ve watched johnny carson. and you are no johnny carson. goo goo goo goo goo goo goo goo welcome the great white north. i m bob mckenzie, this is my brother doug. today we got a real big show there was a second city chicago company, there was a second city toronto company. the toronto one is the one that fueled the sctv series which originally was syndicated and got to the states that way. hail, hail! hail, hail. thank you very much for that marvelous reception.
a shot good! the bulls win it! athletes in the 80s became part of an ongoing group of people that we cared about. we just had an enormous pent-up 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.
shot entirely on location in south miami, the story centers around two undercover vice cops. i don t know how this is going to work, tubbs. i mean, not exactly up my alley style and persona-wise. heaven knows i m no box of candy. television very much was the small screen. what was interesting about tony yerkovich s pilot screen for miami vice, it was very much not that. very much the approach was, okay, they call this a television series. but we re going to make one-hour movies every single week. here we go. stand by. action! police, police! they were describing the show as a new wave cop show. it s a cop show for the 80s. we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. in a lot of ways you don t get miami vice without mtv because in a lot of ways miami vice was a long video. the music was such a big part of that show.
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 friday nights on nbc are different this season thanks to miami vice. it s a show with an old theme but a lot of new twists. described by one critic as containing flashes of brilliance.
music here for small-town news? paul shaffer, ladies and gentlemen. the show making fun of itself and turning itself inside-out that way was something kind of new. i mean, don t we look like guys you d see hanging around together? absolutely. would you like to hang around with me? nope. i ll say it again, this is the stupidest show i thought that i would never want to do this show with you. now why? because you thought i was a [ bleep ]? there is one rule i keep trying to abide by, and unfortunately, i only get to it about 12% of the time. and that is, it s only television. we re not doing cancer research. if the 40-year-odd history of commercial broadcasting has taught us one thing, there s nothing sacred about television. all right, steven is upstairs. hey, dave, i was just curious. is there any way i get mtv on this? actually, steve, that s a that s just a monitor and all