Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (YouTube) MTV channels dedicated to 24/7 music videos began going permanently dark on ...

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

This fall, MTV announced that MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live would shutter at the year's end The closures impact viewers in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, ...

A music video blast from the tech past—resurrected and modernized for 2026. Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever​.

A reflection on music videos' glory days -- as MTV shuts down channels. In 1981, The Buggles declared that video killed the radio star. For several decades, MTV became a cultural phenomenon and with ...

You can't think of the landscape of music and pop culture in the 80s and 90s specifically without thinking of MTV in some form. First launched in 1981, it became the exclusive home to music videos on ...