EVERYONE talks too much on Sirius. For me the right amoiunt is zero.
I miss VH1 pop up videos. I wonder if they are on youtube.
SXM tries to make the “80s on 8” channel feel like watching (well, listening to) MTV back in the day, in the same way that they try to make the '70s and '60s channels sound like listening to a top-40 radio station from those eras, and “Classic Vinyl” and “Classic Rewind” are meant to feel like listening to classic rock radio stations. So, yeah, yappy DJs.
If you have the app, rather than listening on a radio, they offer a bunch of channels which have essentially the same music as the main satellite channels, but no DJs.
Not gone-gone, as noted, but that they finally killed off their secondary music-only channels.
Today, it looks like they’re running a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air marathon. Generally, it looks like they’re mostly, if not entirely, reality TV.
I missed the opening video, and probably the whole opening day — but I am absolutely positive I started watching MTV during its first month (August 1981), because I told my sixth-grade friends about this weird new thing on my cable TV, during the first day of class in early September that year.
It started in some New Jersey neighborhoods on opening day. Although it started on August 1st, 1983 in that limited and localized market, it didn’t go national until January 22nd, 1983.
In the Los Angeles market almost all of the independent TV channels had video shows circa 1979-83. They all had their own flavors and hosts (mostly moonlighting radio DJs). Some were after school; others were late night. I would watch them with the corded remote to my VCR so I can make my own video playlists.
When MTV came along, those local shows started to disappear. I refused to sit through endless Michael Jackson and Madonna videos with the faint hope of seeing the bands my favorite DJs played, so I was never a fan of MTV.
Good to know. It was absolutely, 100% on my cable TV in the northern suburbs of New York City in August 1981.
1981 based on Wikipedia.
I distinctly remember watching it when it was new when cable came to my area during my senior year of high school and I was Class of 1982.
Misprint on my part-it didn’t go fully national until '83.
I was born in 63 so I know that’s not true 
I watched it in Los Angeles in 1982
I’m just misprinting all over the damn place.
You need the original story in the Rolling Stone for the complete details.
Note the subheadline:
The decision will affect a slate of channels in the U.K., as well as some in Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan were the first live act on MTV back in 63.
No, it was Beethoven, conducting his own Ninth Symphony.
Which was astounding since the Beatles didn’t meet Ed until 1964.
Well… can the mods change the title to: Officially Dead outside the US?
I guess after all, we finally reached the point where too much is enough.
Already flagged for a title change; “outside the US and Canada” or “outside North America” would be the most accurate.
Apologies if I seem brusque; I’ve been dealing with this misinformation on the Wikipedia page.
Did they?