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A dark control room with multiple CRT televisions and monitors displaying MTV logos and text, including 'Video Killed The Radio Star'.

A dark control room with multiple CRT televisions and monitors displaying MTV logos and text, including 'Video Killed The Radio Star'.

While there are still a vocal minority of music fans holding out for the day that the "M" in MTV can become meaningful again, to deny that the network has fundamentally shaped popular culture into what it is now would be impossible. At the very least, there are several MTV "channels" on the Viacom-owned Pluto TV streaming service that are MTV-branded and play music videos all day. As 2025 ended, all linear MTV-branded music channels outside the U.S. shut down, going out with "Video Killed The Radio Star" (even though Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" was the first video aired on MTV Europe), making MTV Live and MTV Classic in the U.S. the only surviving channels under the MTV aegis that regularly play music. Ver más