2004 – The CBS broadcasting network is fined $550,000 by the FCC
2004 – The CBS broadcasting network is fined $550,000 by the FCC for airing Janet Jackson’s bare nipple during the Super Bowl telecast.
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2004 – Clear Channel are fined over $495,000…
2004 – Clear Channel are fined over $495,000 for carrying a Howard Stern broadcast in which the shock jock talked about anal sex.
2004 – The Native American Cultural Center calls for a boycott of CBS
2004 – The Native American Cultural Center calls for a boycott of CBS after OutKast perform “Hey Ya!” dressed as American Indians during the Grammy broadcast. “We’re not attacking OutKast as artists,” says Andrew Brother Elk, “but we are going to question the commercialization of our symbols.”
2002 – Lonnie Donegan, known as the “king of skiff…
2002 – Lonnie Donegan, known as the “king of skiffle’ dies in his sleep in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. He is 71. Lonnie Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002) was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is […]
2001 – Michael Jackson makes his first-ever instor…
2001 – Michael Jackson makes his first-ever instore appearance at the Virgin Megastore in New York’s Times Square. The event is broadcast live on MTV’s “Total Request Live.”
2000 – DirecTV broadcasts the 1939 film “The Wizar…
2000 – DirecTV broadcasts the 1939 film “The Wizard Of Oz,” with Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” in sync on the alternate Second Audio Program (SAP). While no one involved with Pink Floyd has ever admitted to any link between the bands seminal 1973 album and the classic film, urban legend purports that […]
1999 – Eric Clapton parts with 100 of his guitars …
1999 – Eric Clapton parts with 100 of his guitars and generates over $5 million for his Crossroads Centre at Antigua, and alcohol and drug-dependency treatment center in the West Indies. Among the stringed beauties auctioned off is “Brownie,” a 1956 sunburst Fender upon which he recorded his hit “Layla”; the instrument goes for a […]
2006 – A few hundred lucky fans pack into New York…
1999 – “Behind the Music,” VH1’s highest-rated original series, begins airing at 9 p.m. nightly. The broadcasts kick off with the premiere of “The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music.”
1998 – R.E.M. plays an exclusive concert for BBC R…
1998 – R.E.M. plays an exclusive concert for BBC Radio 1 at the Radio Theater at Broadcasting House in London for an audience primarily consisting of fan club members and contest winners.
1997 – The newest album by Pearl Jam, “Yield” is p…
1997 – The newest album by Pearl Jam, “Yield” is prematurely leaked in full by a broadcast from Syracuse, N.Y. radio station WKRL.
1997 – For the first time ever, the VH1 music seri…
1997 – For the first time ever, the VH1 music series, “Storytellers” is aired live. The show, featuring Elton John, is a special 90-minute edition and is broadcast from the House of Blues in New Orleans.
1994 – Bob Dylan spends the first of two days taping an episode of
1994 – Bob Dylan spends the first of two days taping an episode of MTV Unplugged at New York’s Sony Studios. The show is broadcast in December.