Several MTV music-only channels broadcast in the U.K. and several other countries went off the air for good on Wednesday night.
The channels included MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live, according to Collider.
Such U.S. channels such as MTV Classic and MTV Live remained on the air into the new year, however.
One of the shuttered channels, MTV Music, paid tribute to MTV history by selecting “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles to be the last video ever played over the air on the channel, according to Deadline.
The video was the first to be played on the original MTV channel in 1981.
Other channels played different videos; the MTV 90s channel, for example, signed off with “Goodbye” by the Spice Girls, according to TheWrap.
In addition to the U.K., music-only MTV channels also stopped broadcasting in Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland and Poland, according to Deadline.
Simone Angel, a former video jockey for the European version of MTV, told the BBC in October that “we need to support these artists and we all need to dance again and listen to music. And I know we do that online in our own little bubbles, but MTV was the place where everything came together. So it really does break my heart.”
The closures came as part of downsizing by MTV parent company Paramount Skydance, according to Rolling Stone.
