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MTV News shutting down

These kinds of things only make sense in linear TV. And with MTV no longer operating that way, it's no surprise they're dropping the news division. There was a similar operation at CMT, once run by the late Chet Flippo. I'm sure it too will go away.

It's too bad because there is an audience for music journalism. But there's very little money for it.
 
Street Novelist said:
Hell, I am surprised MTV hasn't shut down.
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There must be fans for its reality shows -- maybe not in huge numbers but in the age and social demos that advertisers love. "Ridiculousness" seems to make up a large part of MTV's schedule, and that low-brow collection of stupid-people-doing-stupid-things videos, with in-studio commentary by various C-list show biz types, has been in production forever.
 
inari said:
I thought MTV News went away 20 years ago.
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Me too. I remember when Kurt Loder was the "adult in the room" on MTV, adding gravitas to the lighter, fannish music tidbits that Martha Quinn and friends would offer during their shows. Kurt is now 78 years old, long gone from MTV. He last had a show on the SiriusXM channel Volume, but that channel was axed last year. Apparently music talk couldn't find an audience on satellite radio either.
 
CTListener said:
Me too. I remember when Kurt Loder was the "adult in the room" on MTV, adding gravitas to the lighter, fannish music tidbits that Martha Quinn and friends would offer during their shows. Kurt is now 78 years old, long gone from MTV. He last had a show on the SiriusXM channel Volume, but that channel was axed last year. Apparently music talk couldn't find an audience on satellite radio either.
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Supposedly Loder's hiring was a direct result of Live Aid. MTV had its regular VJ's host its coverage, and they were clearly out of their depth and were hammered in the press. Loder was then the editor of "Rolling Stone".
 
MTV News was only on MTVU I didn't ever see MTV News on main MTV for years not in primetime anyways. And there wasn't even an anchor telling you what the promo was about music artists or the newest movie coming out that was about it. I liked Kurt Loder he was the face of MTV for almost 2 decades.
 
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