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The origins of MTV lay in the Warner Cable channel ‘Sight on Sound’ that had been broadcast on the experimental two-way QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio since 1977. Exclusively showing concert footage and music programs, viewers of the channel could vote for their favourite content to be shown. Two years later, on the youth-oriented ...
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