MTV airs it first music video in 1981 with The Buggles' song - Video killed the radio star.
The first annual MTV video music awards show airs featuring appearances from Madonna to Cyndi Lauper.
The first episode of The Real World premiers featuring seven cast members picked to live in a house in New York. 1992.
MTV 2 is launched in 1996.
Total Request Live (TRL) airs for the fist time on MTV featuring the top 10 most requested videos as voted by fans. 1998.
Jackass first airs on MTV in 2000.
Ozzy Osbourne goes from video star to mumbling, bumbling reality-TV curiosity, thanks to "The Osbournes." 20002.
MTV launched The Hills in 2006. A reality TV show based around the glamourous lives of young adults living in Beverley Hills. This was the start of fast growing TV shows, targeting teens.
MTV "celebrates" its 25th anniversary. Not on the air, but on mtv.com - where it rebroadcasts the first hour of the network. 2006.
Reality kills the video star, once and for good - thanks to "Jersey Shore." It becomes MTV's highest-rated show to date - more than 10 million viewers and five times the entire reach of the network when it debuted in 1981. 2009.
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