Nearly 40 years after debuting in the United Kingdom, MTV is retiring several of its channels there. According to BBC News, MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live will no longer be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MTV shut down five of its music channels in the United Kingdom. BBC journalist Jono Read captured MTV Music's final moments in an ...

MTV chose to end its reign as a music network just as it began. The 24-hour music broadcaster that became an international phenomenon in the 1980s has aired its final hours. The UK and Ireland were ...

At precisely 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2025, MTV Music broadcast "Video Killed the Radio Star" for the final time—the identical track that launched the network at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981.

MTV’s shutdown has triggered a wave of nostalgia among baby boomers and Gen X audiences, including industrialist Anand Mahindra, who summed up the moment with a familiar refrain: “I want my MTV.” As ...