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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A fan project recreates the old-school music video format of the original MTV, but Paramount already seems poised to shut it ...

If you long for the days when music wasn't filtered by an algorithm and featured cool videos, this website is for you ...

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

In his post, Anand Mahindra looked back at MTV’s launch in 1981 and described the role the channel played in reshaping how ...

MTV is marking the end of an era in the United Kingdom as several of its channels are set to shut down at the beginning of 2026. All of the UK’s music-focused MTV stations - MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV ...