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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Tom Murray

MTV News shut down after 36 years

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MTV News is being shuttered this week as its parent company Paramount Global announced it was slashing 25 per cent of its US workforce.

The network was launched as a single show in 1987 and became a cultural tastemaker for millions of Gen X viewers in the Nineties.

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