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

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

The decision will affect a slate of channels in the U.K., as well as some in Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil ...

Reflecting on the channel’s early impact, Mahindra shared how transformative MTV felt when it debuted in 1981.

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 ...

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

MTV’s 24-hour music channels went permanently dark on Wednesday, ending decades of operation. The flagship MTV Music channel ...

The move came after the once-influential network shuttered its remaining 24/7 music channels across a number of European and ...

It is the end of an era. That got us thinking about MTV's culture-defining arrival in August 1981 and how music videos ended ...

Meanwhile, MTV HD will continue broadcasting, focusing on reality television and pop culture programming rather than music.

MTV as we know it is over. After more than four decades, the network is shutting down several of its music video channels.