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

The fact that most of those channels happened to still play music videos was a warning sign, both to fans who grew up with ...

As the New Year approached, MTV shuttered its 24-hour music channels. The move wasn’t sudden, as an announcement was made in October that the network’s channels would “go dark” all over the world. On ...

(WSVN) - After more than 40 years on the air, MTV’s music-only channels in the United Kingdom are now a thing of the past. The network pulled the plug on MTV Live, MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s and Club ...

NEW YORK (CNN) - After 40 years, MTV’s music-only channels are now a thing of the past. Those channels around the world, from the United Kingdom to Ireland, France, Australia and Brazil went dark ...

On Dec. 31, 2025, the network shut down a number of its music-only channels Charlotte Walsh is an evergreen editor at PEOPLE. She has been contributing to PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...

MTV shut down five of its music channels in the United Kingdom. The television channel officially stopped broadcasting on its MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live channels in the country ...

MTV channels dedicated to 24/7 music videos began going permanently dark on Wednesday with a nod to the video that started it all: airing the Buggles’ iconic “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Earlier ...

Ireland and the UK were the first to bid farewell to MTV's music channels TheBugglesVEVO/YouTube MTV first debuted in the US on Aug. 1, 1981, adding MTV Europe to their slate in Aug. 1987 This fall, ...