After MTV, radio struck back in 1981
On the second day, radio struck back! MTV had refocused the business of music on the visual when it launched on August 1, 1981. But just a day later, audio would reassert itself...from space! A date, a place, a seismic tremor in the very bedrock of American radio! Forget your quaint local DJs, your chummy neighborhood announcers spinning platters in a haze of stale coffee and cigarette smoke. Forget that whole cozy, small-town illusion! Because on this day, dear friends, something utterly, terrifyingly new burst forth from the heartland, soaring skyward on invisible waves, then plunging back down, zap! directly into your very living rooms! This was the dawn, the blinding, technicolor, high-fidelity dawn of the Satellite Music Network ! Imagine it! No longer shackled by the whims of some regional jock, no longer tethered to the parochial tastes of a single town. Oh no, this was a vision of pure, unadulterated, centrally-controlled, FORMATTED sonic perfection! From Mokena, Illinois – M...