On March 5th, 1983, at 6:19 pm CT - CMT launched, airing a live clip of Faron Young's "It's Four in the Morning" as the channel's very first video. The channel which was called CMTV until the following summer had a relatively small library as few Eighties-era country stars had bothered making music videos, since no real outlet existed before CMT's launch.
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