Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 23, 1986, MTV aired a weekend marathon of The Monkees television series. What began as nostalgic programming quickly ...

On Feb. 23, 1986, MTV aired a weekend marathon of The Monkees television series. What began as nostalgic programming quickly became something much bigger. The response was overwhelming. “We've never ...

The cultural melting pot stirred by music tastes in the mid-'80s brought to the surface several styles and genres that barely existed a decade earlier. By 1986, it wasn't all that rare to find music ...

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 ...

It’s been an eventful week for MTV-related news, which, when you consider the channel’s declining relevance over the years, is news in itself. First came the widespread rumors that MTV had shuttered ...

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 ...

"I Want My MTV" was once the MTV slogan. Now it's a rallying cry for a coder who decided they weren't ready to say goodbye to an era of music video supremacy and built their own MTV Rewind app. While ...

If you long for the days when music wasn't filtered by an algorithm and featured cool videos, this website is for you MTV Music Today, MTV is a zombie network that primarily airs episodes of ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...