On Sept. 18, 1983, the greasepainted rock gods bared their faces at a live MTV press conference — and against all odds, the makeunder revitalized their flagging career.

Carson Daly was the most iconic MTV VJ of my time. I remember the days when I raced home to see the new music video premiere on TRL that day. Before Daly though, there were five original MTV video ...

We tend to think of the 1981 MTV debut as a culture-changing moment where the network ushered in the new sound of the '80s, but the old guard was there, too.

Long missing from availability, the documentary aired just once on MTV back in 1983. As per Sacks & Co., Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party has a new 4K remaster coming from Crowe’s 16mm source.

Never publicly available for viewing since its lone showing on MTV in February ‘83, the rock doc is an illuminating lark, catching Petty and his bandmates as they ride out the crest of their ...

MTV Losing Its Cool? - 07/06/2006As the digital revolution increases its pace and the export of American culture becomes increasingly fraught, MTV is losing its cool, writes Viv Groskop in the New ...

R.I.P. MTV News, iconic news brandMost probably remember MTV News in some version of that form. In its most classic and iconic format, at 10 minutes to the hour, the typewriter keys punched out ...

Two years later in 1984, MTV posted a profit of $4.5 million in the fourth quarter alone, with net income on the full year of $11.9 million, according to a New York Times report from February 1985 ...

MTV changed the game with its launch in 1981, playing music around the clock and breaking new stars. It shifted the artists' focus from solely radio to also their visual image.