Abstract
The two-fingered “V” sign means neither victory nor peace to the very, very specific demographic of those who were Boston-area teenagers in the mid-1980s. Instead, it summons the memory of a genial, skinny-tied VJ proclaiming that you were watching “the V”?—?V66, the local UHF version of MTV that beguiled teenagers, gave regional bands critical exposure, and then vanished. The V (WJVJ-TV) launched on February 12, 1985, when I was a 15-year-old MTV-deprived high school sophomore in Lexington.