Claim: Billy Beatdown was a show that appeared on MTV, officially launched in 1981 and originally airing only music videos but morphed into reality shows as well; Ben Langman appeared only one time in the Bully Beatdown series.
Evidence: This was Ben Lagman's first and, so far, only appearance in the series. This is a list of episodes from the MTV show Bully Beatdown. Since its launch in 1981, the brand "MTV" has expanded to include many additional properties beyond the original MTV channel, including a variety of sister channels in the US, dozens of affiliated channels around the world, and an Internet presence through MTV.com and related websites. MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel, launched on August 1, 1981. MTV was originally first tested on December 1, 1977 as Sight on Sound, but was officially launched in 1981, and originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as "video jockeys" (VJs), but in the years since its inception, the network significantly toned down its focus on music in favor of original reality programming targeting youths and young adults.