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MTV

MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the channel originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as "video jockeys" . In its early years, MTV's main target demographic was young adults, but today it is primarily towards teenagers, high school students and college students. Wikipedia*

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MTV has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1994 Remarks.

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    Election 2000 and Today's Youth

    Following a review of the results of a survey of youth attitudes toward politics, Mr. Rather moderated a panel of journalists…

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    MTV Town Hall Meeting

    A short clip was shown of President Clinton and 200 16-to-20-year olds from across the country who participated in MTV’s “Eno…

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