The Big 80's
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The Big 80's was a series of music videos broadcast on VH1 starting in 1994 and sporadically airing until 2000. The show ran for 90 minutes.
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[edit] Format
The main content of The Big 80's was music videos made between 1980 and 1989 with an occasional 1990 video. The genres were New Wave, Hair Rock and pop, playing videos from its popular artists. Sometimes hosts would inform viewers about CD releases and personal facts about musicians.
[edit] Loss of popularity
The show was extremely popular to begin with, but lost popularity as VH1 programmers decided to limit the videos shown in the series to songs that had had major popularity, chart toppings and sales, turning the show into virtual repeats by the end of its third month. In 1995, some additional videos were added to the lineup. The Big 80's regained a little popularity but after a few months, once again the audience declined because of the repeated videos. The show continued until 2000.
[edit] More of the Big 80's
More of the Big 80's was first broadcast in 1997, trying to play more videos. The show was hosted by Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. The show lost popularity as The Big 80's had done and also ceased in 2000.
The show later moved to VH1 Classic and is now called We Are The 80's.
[edit] CD releases
A series of music CDs was released by VH1 starting, in 1996, with VH1: The Big 80's and continuing with VH1: More of The Big 80's, VH1: The Big 80's Arena Rock, VH1: The Big 80's Big Hair, The Big 80's Pop, and several other volumes, each containing various 1980s hits. The final CD in the series was VH1: Big 80's Christmas. They are still sold on Amazon.com.
