Long before MTV brought music videos into the mainstream, artists were already experimenting with visual ways to accompany their songs. This video explores the early formats that blended film, ...

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever . The last video played on MTV Music in the U.K. was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...

At the very end of 2025, a quiet but seismic shift marked the true end of an era: MTV officially shut down its remaining 24-hour music video channels worldwide. For many fans, that closure felt ...

For those of us of a certain age, it still feels both sad and inexplicable that MTV—a channel that literally used to be called “Music Television”—stopped, y’know, playing music, on television. Sadly, ...

MTV shut down its remaining 24/7 music channels in several countries, including the UK and Australia, at the end of 2025. The main MTV network shifted its focus to reality shows long ago and it ...

Reports of MTV’s death may have been premature, but it’s still a far cry from the Music Television of yore. Some of our elder readers probably remember their elders telling them that MTV used to show ...

"I Want My MTV" was once the MTV slogan. Now it's a rallying cry for a coder who decided they weren't ready to say goodbye to an era of music video supremacy and built their own MTV Rewind app. While ...

If you long for the days when music wasn't filtered by an algorithm and featured cool videos, this website is for you MTV Music Today, MTV is a zombie network that primarily airs episodes of ...

An old-school MTV experience has made its way onto the Internet (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Social media rumors falsely claimed MTV shut down after playing “Video Killed the ...