On the morning of September 6, 1986, a farmer driving a combine through his cornfield in Summerfield, Illinois, made a ...

Once upon a time, a group of 600 young adults smiled as one, danced in pastel outfits and sang about positivity during the ...

Country songs have historically not appeared often on MTV, but these three country jams were standout hits in the channel's early days.

Kirk Hammett (Metallica guitarist): I could tell it was really blossoming into something to be reckoned with. Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That ending landed hard with longtime viewers. Almost immediately, a workaround appeared. A fan-built website called MTV Rewind ...

Every generation has that one place where everything cool happens. Whether it was “American Bandstand,” “Solid Gold,” “Soul Train” or G4, it’s the place where young people would find out what they’re ...

MTV, the channel that once played music videos all day and night, has reached the end of an era. After decades of 24-hour music broadcasting, several of its music-only channels went silent at the end ...

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 ...

It’s hard to overstate the impact of the first 24-hour music video channel on the world’s teens. But after four decades, and with the advent of Instagram’s direct fan connections, the endless variety ...

Is legendary cable television network MTV shutting down for good? Not the one you're thinking of, no. The normal MTV network indeed will not shut down after New Year's Eve, despite some rumors ...