Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 30: MTV Logo is seen onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on August 30, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. When he folded his clothing export business in South Asia, where he ...

MTV co-founder Tom Freston discusses the birth of the network and his new memoir "Unplugged." MTV was the first-ever 24-hour cable network dedicated solely to music videos. Launched in the 1980s, MTV ...

WASHINGTON — MTV is closing several of its music-focused television channels across the U.K. and other international markets at the end of the year. But the changes do not impact American channels.

MTV kick-started a new era of music and pop culture in 1981, when it went on air for the first time, emblematically playing "Video Killed the Radio Star" as its debut music video. More than four ...