We got HBO in 1982 but we couldn't get cable until 1988 due to a corrupt local politician who was helping the mob establish their own cable company, thus Queens got redlined, if you lived north of Queens Boulevard you could have cable, unfortunately I lived south of QB. I was resigned to Friday Night Videos and whatever scraps I could get off of it.
OMG, Friday Night Videos!! Growing up in Canada, we did not have MTV - we had MuchMusic which was basically the same only with much more CanCon (Canadian content). But FNV aired on one of the Seattle channels I recall (as my city is very close to Seattle, Washington).
I also remember "Good Rockin' Tonight" hosted by Terry David Mulligan, another video show and there was an after-school video show in the mid-80s called Video Hits. I was a teenager during all of this (high school grad '85), so I eagerly ate up all this content!
For years in Paris, TX, MTV was just a little too edgy to make it onto the cable menu but we did have TBS Night Tracks, and I'd sit up into the wee hours, tape recorder at the ready to capture all that goodness...
We had cable tv with Mtv in our living room, but we couldn't watch it after a certain time. For a night owl like me, once I got a TV of my own I never missed Friday Night Videos. It might have been in B&W, but it was still pretty great.
I stopped watching around 1986. Lost interest in the music and the format.
We got HBO in 1982 but we couldn't get cable until 1988 due to a corrupt local politician who was helping the mob establish their own cable company, thus Queens got redlined, if you lived north of Queens Boulevard you could have cable, unfortunately I lived south of QB. I was resigned to Friday Night Videos and whatever scraps I could get off of it.
OMG, Friday Night Videos!! Growing up in Canada, we did not have MTV - we had MuchMusic which was basically the same only with much more CanCon (Canadian content). But FNV aired on one of the Seattle channels I recall (as my city is very close to Seattle, Washington).
I also remember "Good Rockin' Tonight" hosted by Terry David Mulligan, another video show and there was an after-school video show in the mid-80s called Video Hits. I was a teenager during all of this (high school grad '85), so I eagerly ate up all this content!
Thanks for the major flashback, Rob!
For years in Paris, TX, MTV was just a little too edgy to make it onto the cable menu but we did have TBS Night Tracks, and I'd sit up into the wee hours, tape recorder at the ready to capture all that goodness...
We had cable tv with Mtv in our living room, but we couldn't watch it after a certain time. For a night owl like me, once I got a TV of my own I never missed Friday Night Videos. It might have been in B&W, but it was still pretty great.
I stopped watching around 1986. Lost interest in the music and the format.