EMILY: I mean, in this age of MTV and 100 television channels, who would’ve imagined that a young girl could still get a thrill spending a simple afternoon with her grandfather?
MTV (originally Music Television) is an American cable station owned by Viacom. Launched in 1981, it was initially for music videos but quickly branched out into other programs; music videos are now limited on the channel.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 