David Bowie: “Why are there practically no blacks on the network?”
Mark Goodman: “We seem to be doing music that fits into what we want to play on MTV. The company is thinking in terms of narrowcasting.”
David Bowie: “There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I’m surprised aren’t being used on MTV.”
Mark Goodman: “We have to try and do what we think not only New York and Los Angeles will appreciate, but also Poughkeepsie or the Midwest. Pick some town in the Midwest which would be scared to death by… a string of other black faces, or black music. We have to play music we think an entire country is going to like, and certainly we’re a rock and roll station.”
David Bowie: “Don’t you think it’s a frightening predicament to be in?”
Mark Goodman:“Yeah, but no less so here than in radio.”
David Bowie: “Don’t say, ‘Well, it’s not me, it’s them.’ Is it not possible it should be a conviction of the station and of the radio stations to be fair… to make the media more integrated?”
David Bowie in 1982, challenging MTV host Mark Goodman on their refusal to play black musicians on their channel (via lacienegasmiled)
MTV, a few months before I was born. RIP to the legend.
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