peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (08/06/83)
For people wanting to see what all the fuss over MTV is about, there's a weekly 90 minute collection of videos and a few features on NBC, at 12:30am. One of the features is a brief and shallow interview with someone (tonight it was Billy Joel). Another is a vote-for-your-favourite-video-by- phone, patterned after the Saturday Night Live phone votes. Each week a new video is put up against the "defending champion". A third is the world premiere of a video (tonight, Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write The Book", with some uncanningly good Charles and Di look-alikes). An aside: people looking for good-to-excellent and unusual videos might look for the work of John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Their work has appeared on "The New Music", a weekly syndicated music magazine produced by CITY TV in Toronto, and at SIGGRAPH '83. 3 of the pieces they accompany are by Adrian Belew (Big Electric Cat), Philip Glass, and Jim Capaldi. They have more of a flair than most, are much less gimmicky, and even have some conceptual unity to their work. Greg Kihn's "Jeopardy" video has their style, but I'm not sure if they did it.
dya@unc-c.UUCP (08/06/83)
References: utcsrgv.1901 You can also catch virtually exactly what MTV (gakkkkk) is all about by turning on WTBS Atlanta (Satcom F3 Transponder 6) or your local cable co; they seem to be running a syndicated version of this. But if you have an earth station, you probably already know about F3-transponder 9. David Anthony at unc-c!dya