Back in the ‘80s my wife and I were in graduate school at the University of Illinois ( Champaign-Urbana campus). MTV debuted/blasted off on the local cable system on a Friday at 6:00pm with a video of a live performance of Roll With the Changes (if memory serves me correct) by REO Speedwagon (they were from CU). Nice touch by MTV to do that for the kick-off.
There's actually an advertisement for that show on one of the MTV commercials in this vid.
That REO concert was filmed in Denver at McNichols Sports Arena where as a youth I saw many, many shows (but, sadly, not that one).