Ah, the good old days of MTV, back when music was music, and MTV played and showed plenty of it. Those days are gone. Here's why.

MTV flipped a switch on August 1, 1981, and gave music a face. Labels started treating videos like serious investments, and artists began competing for airtime. As viewers kept the channel on, ...

It's over on the night of January 1, 2026: that's when the last music video will air on MTV Germany. This was foreseeable. From January 2026, the channel that once started as "Music Television" will ...

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 ...

In the post-MTV age, videos still have value — though it's become harder to justify superstar-level budgets. By Steve Knopper To document Cheap Trick’s last-ever show at the Nippon Budokan — the Tokyo ...

From YouTube to the red carpet, MTV is celebrating another year of music video greatness. On Sunday, the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards got underway at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, where Snoop ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - MTV shut down its 24-hour music channel on January 1, 2026, ending a 44-year run that helped shape global pop culture. The channel’s final broadcast featured Video Killed the Radio ...

MTV still programs some music video channels in the U.S., including "MTV Classic" (which plays music videos from the 1980s to 2000s), "MTV Live" (which runs current music videos) and a collection of ...

A fan project recreates the old-school music video format of the original MTV, but Paramount already seems poised to shut it down. Gen X and elder millennials have long known that MTV has gone the way ...