Last year, MTV News shut down due to layoffs at parent company Paramount. And last week, Patrick Hosken, a former editor of MTV News (and a contributor to Stereogum), discovered that the music publication’s online page had been shut down, erasing decades of featured music. journalism. Now, the Internet Archive has come to the rescue with a searchable database on MTV News.
The database comprises 460,575 Internet pages previously published on mtv. com/news dating back to the creation of the Internet site in 1996. Paramount also got rid of content from its CMT, Comedy Central and TV Land websites. With broader tweaks to Paramount’s website, we’ve brought more streamlined versions of our sites, bringing fans to Paramount to watch their favorite shows,” a Paramount Global representative said in a statement. You can locate the MTV News database here.
Last month, Shari Redstone Inc. de s National Amusements (which controls Paramount Global) canceled merger talks with David Ellison’s Skydance Media (which produces film franchises such as Mission: Unimaginable and Star Trek) and is now reportedly looking to reduce its annual prices by $500 million while planning to sell part of its media empire. It’s unclear if Paramount plans to sell MTV or its other cable channels like Nickelodeon, however, today it was revealed that the company could hand over $1. 6 billion worth of BET to that network’s CEO and executive. Meanwhile, after Barry Diller’s IAC emerged yesterday as a new buyer imaginable from Paramount, the merger with Skydance turns out to be taking a stand after all.
Last year, Paramount Global’s long-term debt amounted to $14. 6 billion, and a few weeks ago, its shares hit an all-time low. Despite a faltering cable business, Paramount also owns valuable assets, CBS and Paramount Pictures. merge its Paramount with some other streaming service like Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max.
MTV was introduced in 1981 through Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, which was sold to a collective that included Paramount, then called Viacom, in 1983. Sumner’s National Amusements, Redstone’s father, took over Viacom in 1987. MTV got rid of “Music Television” from its logo in 2010, but continued to produce music journalism until MTV News shut down. The MTV Video Music Awards return to celebrate its 40th anniversary on September 10, while the MTV Movie Awards
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