MTV T-Shirt
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content: This promotional short sleeve MTV® t shirt is from the early days of the music channel. The “M” is in yellow, while the “TV” is written in red on the front of the shirt, with “MUSIC TELEVISION™” written underneath. This t shirt was made prior to MTV® dropping “music television” from its logo in February 2010.
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content: MTV® officially launched on August 1, 1981 to a limited market. Through aggressive and innovative marketing techniques, staff were able to quickly popularize the fledgling cable music channel. Through the years, MTV® has gone from a channel focused primarily on music videos to include many different types of television programming targeted at contemporary youth culture.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Connie Cordaro
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0064.01
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content: 2014.0064.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: t-shirt
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content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 29 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 73.66 cm x 74.93 cm x 1.905 cm