{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''''Video Vibrations''''' was a 4-hour-long daily video block that showcased popular [[music videos]]. It was one of [[Black Entertainment Television|BET]]'s early video shows. The show aired October 1, 1984 until 1997,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Harris|first=Christopher|date=2017-02-07|title=BET's Rap City: An Oral History of TV's Longest-Running Hip-Hop Show|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/rap-city-an-oral-history-of-tvs-longest-running-hip-hop-show-192012/|access-date=2021-08-08|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref> when it was changed to ''Vibrations''. It was developed to appeal to black audiences and show a wider array of black music than MTV or other networks at the time.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Keyes|first=Cheryl Lynette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRmRqtD6oPgC&dq=%22Video+Vibrations%22+BET&pg=PA101|title=Rap Music and Street Consciousness|date=2004|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-07201-7|pages=101|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jg8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Video+Vibrations%22+BET&pg=PA41-IA9|title=Billboard|date=1992-05-30|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=101|language=en}}</ref>
The first video on ''Video Vibrations'' was [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s "[[When Doves Cry]]". In the beginning, due to a limited supply of videos from black artists, popular mainstream white artists with crossover appeal were also featured in the lineup. As the supply of videos from black artists expanded, so did BET's position as an influential voice of the music industry.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pulley|first=Brett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6uQo0R2cUL0C&dq=%22Video+Vibrations%22+BET&pg=PA60|title=The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television|date=2005-10-05|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-73597-7|pages=60|language=en}}</ref>
==Hosts== The show was hosted by a VJ speaking offscreen. All three hosts were prominent in radio as well.
*Alvin "The Unseen VJ" Jones (1984–1991), one of [[Black Entertainment Television|BET]]'s other first VJ's, alongside [[Donnie Simpson]]. *"Captain" Paul Porter (1991–1996). *Lorenzo "Ice Tea" Thomas (1996–1997)
==Popular segments== *Rap Week – a segment dedicated to [[hip-hop]] and [[Rap music|rap]]. Numerous artists were interviewed as well. This was also the inspiration for Alvin Jones to create ''[[Rap City]]''. The show went off the air in 2008. *The Monday Music Marathon – a showcase of music videos by one artist or genre.
==Music Intros== The program did not use a theme song or used any recorded tracks until 1991, when they used the single "[[Mindflux]]" from the British act [[N-Joi]] as their "theme song" for their intros and breaks up until they left the air in 1997.
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