Despite his 26 years in a traditional media job, ultimately rising to CEO of what was then Viacom, Tom Freston had no ...

Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers of The Police all yelled into the camera: "I want my MTV!" Then came Pat Benatar, doing the same thing, followed by Pete Townshend of The Who, all demanding ...

MTV Legend, 80, Is Unrecognizable Reuniting With Fellow On-Air Icons originally appeared on Parade. If you grew up watching MTV in the '80s and '90s, there was one name you knew you could trust: Kurt ...

Apparently, apart from spoiling kids' morals, rock and roll (videos) also ruined their financial discipline. Well, no, maybe not. But, due to poor spending and savings habits, the finances of the MTV ...

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For the purposes of this post, I feel I must divulge that I have watched a whole hell of a lot of MTV in my lifetime. Notice my careful wording — watched. I honestly cannot watch MTV nowadays — I’m ...

NEW YORK — George Lois, an advertising executive and art director who designed provocative magazine images and coined the slogan “I Want My MTV,” died Friday in New York City. He was 91. Lois’ son, ...

An alternative title for I Want My MTV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution could be Drugs and Money. As we learn in Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s splendid oral history, music ...

Did you know that in addition to streaming, (see last week’s column), YouTube is also considered a primary music platform for lots and lots of people? Chances are high you did, because over two ...

Rob Dyrdek broke his silence on the recent cancelation of his MTV series ‘Ridiculousness’ after 46 seasons calling it ‘divine ...

Through rock and roll history, there have been few stars bigger and more important than David Bowie and Paul McCartney. Imagine being a young exec at an upstart cable TV channel called MTV and finding ...