"Don't Fear the Reaper" is Blue Oyster Cult's most successful song, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has ...

Reports from late last year about the demise of MTV were overstated; but it got us thinking about the network’s legacy and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve been on social media at any point over the past few months, you’ve likely seen a myriad of reels,memes and posts about the death of MTV. That’s right, the channel that exploded into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...