Music channels

MTV TIMELINE

August 1st 1981: MTV launches
1984: First MTV VMAS
1985: VH1 launches (sister channel)
1991: Animation hits MTV "Beavis and Butt-head"
1992: Reality show on MTV "The Real World"
1998: "Total Requests Live!" debuts, one of the few shows that played music videos, ran until 2008
2002: Introduced more reality shows
2010: MTV drops "music television"