Back when MTV played videos on a regular basis, there were VJs (video jockeys), similar to radio disc jockeys, who introduced the music, hosted said segments and other programming on the network, and ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...

An old-school MTV experience has made its way onto the Internet (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) MTV Rewind streams 35,000+ classic music videos, bypassing ads, algorithms, and logins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite what you might have seen in the trending topics, MTV did not shut down at the end of 2025. The network is still a shell of ...

It’s been an eventful week for MTV-related news, which, when you consider the channel’s declining relevance over the years, is news in itself. First came the widespread rumors that MTV had shuttered ...

MTV Rewind is an interface through which you can watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, Headbangers ...

MTV Rewind Website Brings Back 24/7 Music Video Channels – Including Headbangers Ball After MTV killed its 24-hour music channels, a coder launched MTV Rewind — a free, ad-free web app streaming ...

At the very end of 2025, an end of an era took place — the power that be over at MTV axed the cable channel’s remaining 24-hour music channels. Not just in the U.S., mind you, but all over the world ...

For those of us of a certain age, it still feels both sad and inexplicable that MTV—a channel that literally used to be called “Music Television”—stopped, y’know, playing music, on television. Sadly, ...

At the end of 2025, MTV shut down many of its remaining 24-hour music channels across the globe. To fill the void, one ambitious fan has launched a free website called MTV Rewind, featuring archival ...

Reports of MTV’s death may have been premature, but it’s still a far cry from the Music Television of yore. Some of our elder readers probably remember their elders telling them that MTV used to show ...

Free of ads (aside from some period-specific Rainier Beer spots) and broken into several collections, including “MTV 1st Day,” MTV ’70s, and MTV 2010s, the site does what people want: It plays music ...