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
well, we know you don t die. i mean, you couldn t die. we don t know that. how could you die? you couldn t come back next season. that s what i mean. i couldn t come back but the show could still go. oh, but you wouldn t. what is that show without j.r.? well, that s what i figure, yeah. well, i guess if you don t know by now who shot j.r., you probably don t care. last night some 82 million americans did. and they watched the much-touted dallas episode. it could become the most-watched television show ever. who shot j.r. is a reflection of old-fashioned television. it s a moment that gathers everybody around the electronic fireplace, which is now the television set. one special american television program. critics said it transcends in popularity every other american statement about war. and something special happened today to mobile army surgical hospital 4077. that will touch millions of americans. it was the kind of event that would draw the world s breath. st
suzanne, if sex were fast food, there would be an arch over your bed. over your bed. linda bloodworth-thomason created one of the funniest, most unusual shows in designing women. they were a different group of women than you really saw on television. they were feisty, they were sexy. and linda s voice came through shining. a man can get away with anything. i mean, look at reagan s neck. it sags down to here. and everybody raves about how great he looks. can you imagine if nancy had that neck? they d be putting her in a nursing home for turkeys. they had given me this 23 minutes to address whatever topic i want, and it s such a privilege, it s more than the president of the united states gets, and it s kind of thrilling to have that every week. i would be lying if i said i
more wild. the 80s brought a lot of belligerence to television. whether it was morton downey jr. being the offensive caricaturish person that he was, or geraldo. he did his own outlandish things. stay with us, ladies and gentlemen. we re going to get into the mind of another all-american boy who came under the influence of satanism and took part in a crime without passion or motive geraldo rivera takes the power of the talk show to a whole other level, trying to put people on stage who hate each other, who are going to fight in the case of the temple of set and the church of satan, we have not had any problems with criminal behavior but yet when you hear story after story after story of people committing these wretched crimes and violent crimes in the devil s name the more tension there is, the more conflict and violence there is, the more the ratings go up. and the american people love to complain about it, but they also love to watch. geraldo rivera is back in
i mean, you re 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 screenplay 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 sort of a new wave cop show. yeah, it s a cop show for the 80s. i mean, 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. there was an allure to using great music that everybody was listening to as opposed to the routine kind of tv scoring of that period.