\n\t\t\t\t\t“Something is happening to ABC TV screens tonight” said ABC in 1987.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In 1987 rage launched on ABC, now billed as the world\u2019s longest running music series.<\/p>\n
April 1987 also marked the same month as MTV Australia debuted as a late night program on Nine and two months after Video Hits\u00a0on Network 10.<\/p>\n
The first five music videos shown were \u201cWeirdo Libido\u201d by the Lime Spiders, \u201c(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)\u201d by The Beastie Boys, \u201cYou Really Got Me\u201d by The Kinks, \u201cC\u2019mon Every Beatbox\u201d by Big Audio Dynamite and \u201cTonight, Tonight, Tonight\u201d by Genesis.<\/p>\n
In 2006 rage abandoned the weekly Top 50 clips, outraging fans who pleaded for it to be restored. But their cries fell on deaf -or defeaned- ears until it was restored in 2015.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Something is happening to ABC TV screens tonight” said ABC in 1987. In 1987 rage launched on ABC,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-104517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}