At precisely 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2025, MTV Music broadcast "Video Killed the Radio Star" for the final time—the ...

MTV debuted its flagship channel MTV Music in 1981 with the same Buggles song that it went permanently dark with Wednesday.

MTV’s music channels went dark, closing with the clip that introduced the world to the 24-hour station on Aug. 1, 1981.

MTV launched on August 1, 1981. The Music Television Network gave a new dimension to songs as artists had the opportunity to pair videos with their music. Some of the videos wound up being the fabric ...

MTV stopped being “Music Television” this week. For Gen Xers, MTV was a foundational part or our youth. You were more likely ...

As MTV shuts down its remaining music-only channels worldwide, a new fan-built website called MTV Rewind offers a rare ...

MTV first debuted in the US on Aug. 1, 1981, adding their MTV Europe to their slate in Aug. 1987. As viewers in Europe rang in 2026, MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live shuttered.

Thirty-six years ago in 1981, Americans tuned in to the premiere of Music Television (MTV), the world's first 24-hour video music channel. » RELATED: MTV returns to live TV with ‘TRL’-style show The ...

MTV has shut down several music-only video channels across the UK, Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil after nearly 40 ...