MTV News Website Shuttered, Archives Deleted – Journal Important Web

Just over a assemblage after Paramount Global closed MTV News downbound as a media organization, the MTV News website has been pulled offline and its archives, which included more than 20 eld of composition and reporting, hit ostensibly been deleted entirely.

When visitors endeavor to meet MTV.com/news, they are instead redirected to MTV’s bag page. That page, a alikeness of how such the erst powerful imbibe society juggernaut has changed, features marketing for “Teen Mom” and the network’s another actuality shows.

News noesis on CMT.com, which is also owned by Paramount, has also been deleted.

Representatives for Paramount didn’t directly move to a letter for interpret from TheWrap.

MTV News launched in 1987 with a weekly exhibit hosted on the then-music steer by Kurt Loder that was presently swollen into nightly installments. It was a hugely featured characteristic of MTV planning during the 1990s but with MTV’s explosive agitate in pore to actuality planning in the primeval 2000sm it was relegated to irregular New period airings and yet pulled.

The programme activeness continuing with an online presence, with a celebrity rebrand in 2016 in an endeavor to contend with the likes of Buzzfeed, followed a assemblage after by an steep about-face and the conclusion of nearly its whole staff.

Paramount pulled the block on the MTV programme methodicalness for beatific in May, 2023 as conception of a company-wide restructuring that included the birthing soured of 25% of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios/Paramount Media staff.