You can no longer access MTVNews.com after MTV took down the website and its related content.
According to Variety, the brand also pulled down its sister site, CMT.com.
Why Has MTV Done This?
In 2023, the news platform was closed amid the financial issues of parent company Paramount Global.
Until Monday, you were directed to the main website if you tried to access the news site.
The now-unavailable content includes several decades of music journalism, including thousands of interviews and articles on major artists from 1996.
One of the worst losses is the hip-hop archives, especially the “Mixtape Monday” column, which ran from the 2000s to the 2010s.
Former staff shared details of the website shutdown on social media.
Patrick Hosken, the defunct website’s former music editor, wrote on X:
“So, mtvnews.com no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn’t fit some executives’ bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word.”
Crystal Bell, Mashable’s cultural editor and former entertainment director of the defunct website, shared:
“sickening… to see the entire @mtvnews archive wiped from the internet. decades of music history gone…including some very early k-pop stories.”
Long-term Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt wrote:
“This is disgraceful. They’ve completely wiped the MTV News archive. Decades of pop culture history research material gone, and why?”
Last week, Paramount Global pulled down its CMT website, removing its decades-long depository of country music journalism.
