MTV's music-only channels all but went dark on New Year's Eve in 2025. The network did a fitting send-off for seven of its ...

Once considered a driver of pop culture, MTV's middle-aged awards have fallen into a rut — but there's still a path for a ...

The iconic cable television channel, first launched in a small section of the East Coast on Aug. 1, 1981.

The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

These new wave one-hit wonders, complete with their iconic music videos, helped make MTV the giant it is today.

Music videos from the ’80s that were way ahead of their time (and a few that haven’t aged well) MTV launched on August 1, 1981, with “Video Killed the Radio Star,” which is either the […] ...

45 years ago, the music industry was turned on its head when an unknown cable channel announced its arrival on American TV with its first Chief Operating Officer, John Lack, announcing, “Ladies and ...

In 1983, Thomas Dolby ruled MTV with "She Blinded Me With Science." The synth-heavy song, from the English musician's album ...

The British VJ helped boost indie and alt rock on the video network from 1989 to 1992.

When discussing the best rock albums from every year of the 1980s, Synchronicity by The Police and Back in Black by AC/DC ...

The throughline of this week’s Connecticut arts events is cable television of the 1990s. The special focus is on MTV back ...

British music journalist helped introduce countless rising bands before alternative rock entered mainstream culture ...