Videos *not* on MTV in the early era. Your favorite shows, channels, videos?

[JpnDude]

Besides Friday Night Videos (NBC), Night Flight (USA) and Night Tracks (WTBS), in the Los Angeles area, I also watched:

Video 22 on old local station KWHY-TV Channel 22.

In 1984 KWHY launched Video 22, a 3 hour, weekday afternoon rock video show which had the slogan “We cook for 3 hours before dinner.” The show used the first Macintosh computers to inventory the playlists. Video 22 used a stop motion aniamated mascott named VIDEO JOE. Video 22 was cancelled when SelecTV merged with competitor On-TV and expanded their hours.

**MV3/Video One **(KHJ-TV) focused on top 40 hits but lots of Brit-pop and new wave once Richard Blade started hosting. I stopped watching cartoons on weekday afternoons because of this show.

VideoBeat (KTLA-TV) featured a mix of popular songs of the time together with artists on heavy rotation on local radio station KROQ-FM, for which Blade also worked.

[Spoons]

No love for SCTV’s Gerry Todd? Yes, Gerry (played by Rick Moranis) and his videos were parodies, but at the time when MTV and others were presenting real videos, SCTV was lampooning them, and the video shows’ hosts, perfectly.

[Koxinga]

I don’t remember Gerry Todd, but SCTV was where I saw two of my first videos – had to have been because I didn’t even really know what was a “video” was, and I was thinking “what on earth is this?” (Remember I was about 10 years old or so.) I remember it was something like a spoof of a North American video program, playing Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime,” and the show was in some kind of battle with a Japanese video program that was hijacking its signal.

[gaffa]

@Koxinga

I don’t remember Gerry Todd, but SCTV was where I saw two of my first videos – had to have been because I didn’t even really know what was a “video” was, and I was thinking “what on earth is this?” (Remember I was about 10 years old or so.) I remember it was something like a spoof of a North American video program, playing Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime,” and the show was in some kind of battle with a Japanese video program that was hijacking its signal.

That was Gerry Todd. The Japanese host played an wonderfully weird video by The Plastics

[Spoke]

The first time I recall seeing a modern music video it was on on American Bandstand, of all places. The video was Girl U Want by Devo, which I guess would place that experience in 1980.