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S Haslam and A Shand A terrifying media release is still on the loose in Byron Bay after escaping from the computers of Council candidates Rhett Holt and Cr Alan Hunter.  ‘It is a frightful to wake up at three in the morning to a man blood dripping with a backpack full of knives using your shower,’ the [sic] release said. Not content with savagely trampling cherished grammatical norms, it then threatened to ‘put a secure barb wire fence around [a] whole block’ in central Byron, before launching a series of frenzied attacks at property values in the Butler St area.

There’s no denying the profound impact MTV had on pop-culture in America had all over the world. The term “game changer” gets thrown around too often these days, but that’s exactly what the network’s arrival was. When MTV launched on Aug. 1, 1981, it marked the dawn of a new generation of music consumption. Fans didn’t have to depend on records or the radio anymore, as the hottest new songs were now available right on your television set. Even better, music was now a visual medium. From glam rock spandex to provocative pop outfits, viewers could now see everything artists had to o...

Blackwood]. And I was the last guy to say, ‘and I’m Alan Hunter.'” But because the guy loading the videotapes screwed up, Hunter ended up being the first VJ we ever saw, saying, “…And I’m Alan Hunter.” “No one really noticed, it was late at night,” Hunter laughs. “There was so many technical glitches that first day…MTV was duct-taped together to start, to be honest.” But MTV soon took hold across the country — especially in the Midwest, where Hunter and his fellow VJs would find hundreds of people waiting to greet them at in-store appearances. “They would ask for a...

Mark Weiss/WireImage"Ladies and gentleman...rock and roll." That's what anyone with cable TV who happened to be up at midnight on August 1, 1981 -- 40...

By Mark Robertson Photo: Getty Images The MTV cable network launched 40 years ago this Sunday, at 12:01 a.m. ET on August 1st, 1981. During its first five months of being on air, MTV was available in only 2.1 million homes in the U.S. -- with New York City one of the major spots that did not receive the signal. The lack of MTV being carried across the country by various cable providers resulted in one of the '80s most legendary marketing campaigns with top artists of the day appearing on MTV commercials, demanding fans to contact their cable outlets with the soon-to-be iconic catchphrase: "I...