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MTV snaps up video rights

Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, August 1984

SAN FRANCISCO — Rock-video fans who don't get their MTV — and that means seventy-five percent of the country's households — were at the losing end of a recent deal that gives the cable channel exclusive use of selected music videos from four major record labels.

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