Ozzy Osbourne was not the only MTV icon lost in 2025. Here’s a look at the stars whose careers helped define the network’s legacy.

MTV co-founder Tom Freston reveals how a mission to recruit David Bowie for MTV led to an unforgettable sauna encounter with Bowie and Paul McCartney.

Twenty years after Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey’s divorce became a pop culture earthquake — which made headlines on Dec. 16, 2005 — Newlyweds still looms large as one of reality TV’s most revealing ...

Once a cultural phenomenon, MTV ends five music channels in the UK; viewership in the U.S. continues its downward slide When MTV announced earlier this year that it would be shutting down music ...

Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were often an afterthought – promotional clips filmed quickly to avoid constant TV appearances. But once the dedicated music-video channel hit the airwaves, ...

UN aid chief Tom Fletcher discusses his trip to Sudan amidst the country’s civil war. Political reporter Stephen Collinson unpacks President Trump’s reversal on the Epstein files. Singer Sarah ...

MTV is shutting down its European music video channels, which were once symbols of freedom for many young people in the Balkans and the former Eastern Bloc. Lida Hujic had a front-row seat when the ...

New book Short Form brings together key voices in screen culture to investigate how we see the practice of filmmaking. Here's FACE friend Philippa Snow on the Wild West of late-night MTV. In the year ...

Well, it happened again. The internet had a meltdown recently when it was widely reported that MTV was shutting down its music channels. The panic was understandable, especially after the genuine ...

MTV is shuttering its music channels in the UK – and now fans are wondering if the US could be next. The iconic music TV channel is closing five stations in the UK, including MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV ...

Could this be the end of an era? MTV fans were heartbroken to learn that some of its channels will be shutting down by the end of the year. The news came after Paramount Global, MTV’s owner, merged ...

On Friday, October 10, MTV announced that it will close five channels in the U.K., after nearly 40 years. Music videos began in the 1960s and have been a cornerstone of the pop culture lexicon for ...