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 ...

Director of scheduling and acquisitions for MTV, John Taite, is to join BBC Worldwide as director of programming, global channels, EMEA. BBC Worldwide has recruited MTV UK's John Taite as director of ...

The channel, now owned by US media giant Paramount Skydance, will wind down its international music broadcasting by the end of the year. MTV in the 1980s fuelled the ...