MTV's marquee event used to be the the hipper, younger alternative to Music's Biggest Night, but Sunday night's Grammys ...

In 2025, we bid farewell to the best part of MTV. And no, we do not mean endless hours of Ridiculousness. We mean the very reason why the network had its name in the first place and why we fell in ...

The Paramount mogul is seeking a strategic partner for the cable channel as it figures out a plan to revive the once-iconic brand. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Can MTV bring the music back? David ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It used to be a joke among people of a certain age that “I remember when MTV still played music.” This is because, after years of ...

On December 31, 2025, MTV quietly ended the version of itself that once mattered most to music fans. After 44 years, its last round-the-clock music channels shut down, closing a chapter many people ...

For years, turning on MTV meant surrendering to whatever came next. A brand-new type of music, a new artist, or something cool from a favorite band. That experience has largely disappeared, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s been an eventful week for MTV-related news, which, when you consider the channel’s declining relevance over the years, is news in itself. First came the widespread rumors that MTV had shuttered ...

Paramount Skydance Corp. is looking to revive MTV — and it wants the music industry’s help. Paramount has spoken with several major companies and leading music industry figures about acquiring a stake ...