Conyac で依頼された翻訳結果を公開

MTV’s 30th Anniversary: Has YouTube Killed the Video Star?

At 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981, the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll” were spoken over a montage of the first space shuttle launch. And with that, the cable network MTV was born. Originally accessible by a few thousand people on a northern New Jersey cable system, MTV is now in hundreds of millions of households across the globe.

Over the past 30 years, MTV has evolved from a small cable network that broadcasts broadcasts music videos into a true lifestyle brand that encompasses television, the Internet, the motion picture industry and even comic books. Fittingly, the first video that aired on MTV in 1981 was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. The words were true. Almost overnight, the music video became one of the most important promotional and marketing vehicles for the music industry. Artists that best utilized the new format — Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and Weird Al Yankovic — became not just stars, but icons. In short, video really did kill the radio star.

YouTube Killed the Music Video Channel? Thirty years later, is the music video still relevant? And what then, of MTV. We spoke to Shannon Connolly, VP of digital music strategy at MTV Networks, about the evolution of MTV and the impact that digital distribution and technologies — especially YouTube — have had on the music side of MTV.