LONDON — 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.
The recent layoffs enacted at Paramount have impacted television executives at CBS, MTV, BET, and the Paramount+ streaming network.
Far-left MTV is shutting down five of its music channels in the United Kingdom. Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil will soon follow. And the future does not look bright for the 44-year-old brand here in the U.S.
Pop megastar Ariana Grande ended a seven year MTV VMAs hiatus on Sunday night by snagging multiple major awards, making four wardrobe changes, and delivering a headline-grabbing acceptance speech.
A group of woke employees of entertainment giant Paramount have organized to sign a letter attacking the company for announcing that it intends to roll back its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies.
The Missouri-bred singer Chappell Roan, who the Associated Press called “the yodeling queer pop icon of tomorrow,” dedicated her first-ever VMA win to “all the queer kids in the Midwest,” adding, “I am one of you.”
Paramount has deleted nearly everying at its Comedy Central, CMT, TV Land, MTV (the main site), and Paramount Network sites.
Paramount will soon begin selling off pieces of the studio and cutting $500 million in overhead, which means staffing cuts.
Nolte: Last May, the far-left MTV News closed down forever (tee hee). Now the MTV News website and its archives have been deleted.
Cable TV was a form of socialism: there was no real competition, and everyone paid for everyone else’s content.
The Miami Beach Police Department says that MTV star Sam Logan was robbed by a man who used the star’s social media posts to track him.
The reason for Jacky Oh’s sudden death at the age of 32 has been released.
Stars from “RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars” have denounced the growing number of anti-grooming laws protecting children from raunchy drag shows and transgender indoctrination, calling the state laws “blatantly bigoted” during an appearance Sunday at the MTV Movie and TV Awards.
The first big live awards show to air during the current screenwriters’ strike has retreated to a pre-taped event as the MTV Movie & TV Awards tries to chart a celebratory course through a turbulent Hollywood.
Actress Drew Barrymore has dropped out as the host of the MTV Movie and TV Awards, saying she is doing so in solidarity with Writers Guild of America (WGA) scribes currently on strike. MTV has also canceled its red carpet event.
The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards were broadcast on 13 — 13! — cable networks, and only 3.9 million people tuned in.
“Bros” and Disney’s “Lion King” star Billy Eichner strode to center stage at the 2022 MTV VMAs on Sunday night and launched a smear-filled attack on what he called “all the homophobes on the Supreme Court.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The MTV Europe Music Awards will be held Nov. 14 in Hungary, the network said Tuesday, reaffirming and defending the location despite the country’s recent passage of legislation widely condemned as anti-LGBTQ.
How low were the ratings for Sunday night’s telecast of the MTV’s Video Music Awards? So low, lol, the entertainment media are not reporting the numbers.
Singer Cyndi Lauper — who has an estimated net worth of $50 million — went on a feminist rant on Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), where she proclaimed that “girls just want to have… funds, equal pay,” and “control over our bodies.”
MTV is marking its 40th anniversary with a relaunch of its iconic image of an astronaut on the moon, with an MTV flag planted nearby.
Country Music Television urged viewers over the weekend to “wear orange” in support of Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety’s gun control campaign.
Major Hollywood studios including WarnerMedia and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot are promoting a gun control initiative funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg. The “Wear Orange” push comes from the Bloomberg-backed Everytown for Gun Safety, which has pressured President Joe Biden to enact gun control via executive order.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Tawny Kitaen, the sultry red-haired actress who appeared in rock music videos during the heyday of MTV and starred opposite Tom Hanks in the 1984 comedy “Bachelor Party,” has died. She was 59.
Production of MTV’s reality dating series “Are You the One?” has been paused while the network launches an investigation into claims that one of its former contestants was drugged and sexually assaulted.
Former MTV news correspondent SuChin Pak has accused the network of being a hotbed of racism, saying that a “white male executive” once used a racial slur about her in the workplace.
ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group is committing $250 million over the next three years to bring content from women and BIPOC-owned production companies to screens.
The MTV Entertainment Group is teaming up with social justice groups, from Color of Change to GLAAD, to launch a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DE&I) orientation initiative that will construct new “baseline cultural norms” across Viacom CBS’ brands.
ViacomCBS has launched a mass voter registration, early voting, and get-out-the-vote campaign called “Vote For Your Life,” in response to the so-called “crisis” caused by the Chinese coronavirus ahead of the November election.
Pop superstar Miley Cyrus says she was a victim of sexism at last week’s MTV Video Music Award after the show’s directors were reportedly reluctant to meeting her demands regarding the lighting on stage.
You could broadcast video of an old woman trying to pound in a nail across 12 cable networks and pull something close to what the VMA’s did.
Major Hollywood networks have hired famed private investigator Edward Myers to comb through reality star’s social media accounts for content that might lead to accusations of racism.
Nickelodeon aired eight minutes and 46 seconds with the message “I CAN’T BREATHE” in white letters emblazoned across a black screen. The message’s length matches the purported amount of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck.
Twitter for the first time put a fact-check label on tweets from President Trump, using the controversial tactic on messages in which the president complained there is “no way” that “mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.”
Former first lady Michelle Obama has joined forces with MTV to create a virtual high school prom to help drive voter registration for her When We All Vote organization — a group that bills itself as non-partisan but that is aggressively pushing vote by mail with the help of left-wing celebrities.
Senior Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway responded Tuesday to pop star Taylor Swift’s push to pass the Equality Act, mocking her for losing to President Donald Trump in the past.
Growing up in the eighties, the VMAs were fantastic. The stars were cool and fun and naughty and spectacular to look at. Now they’re all fuddy-duddy, pious, stick-in-the-mud
President Donald Trump’s administration fired back at pop superstar Taylor Swift on Tuesday for her new push for Congress to move forward on the Equality Act.
Actress Alison Brie spoke railed against supposed mistreatment of immigrants across the United States alongside rapper French Montana at the MTV Music Video Awards on Monday, describing it as “unconstitutional and frankly disgusting.”
Pop megastar and left-wing activist Taylor Swift took a not-so-sublte shot at President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday night from the stage of the 36th annual MTV Video Music Awards.
