TRL Going Off-Air In November
Posted by Rebecca Stone on 09.16.2008
The staple MTV Show "ending" after 10 years...
Start the countdown clock on MTV's countdown era: "Total Request Live" will soon shut down after 10 years on the air.
The music video show will conclude in a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon in November, Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of "TRL," said Monday. He stressed that the show wasn't ending for good, but felt now was the right time to give it a break after an unprecedented run on the cable music channel.
"We want to close this era of 'TRL' in a big celebratory way, and 10 is a great number," Sirulnick said. "And 10 is the number that `TRL' counted down every single day for 10 years, and we hit this 10th (anniversary) and we thought, `You know what? This feels like the right time and let's celebrate it and let's reward it. And let's let it have a little bit of a rest for a minute.' Let it catch its breath! Been working hard — for 10 years!"
"TRL" debuted in September 1998 and became the splashy center of the teen pop music scene with Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and other acts. From its heydey until 2008, it's been a destination for musicians, movie stars and celebrities promoting their new music, movies and other projects.
Sirulnick said "TRL" — which airs weekday afternoons from MTV's Times Square studio — lost some luster as it aged. It peaked in 1999 with 757,000 viewers tuning in daily, according to Nielsen Media Research.
MTV found a replacement of sorts with "FNMTV." The show debuted over the summer in a 15-episode run hosted by Pete Wentz, bassist for rock band Fall Out Boy. Taped in Los Angeles, it aired Friday nights and televised exclusive music videos and performances by such diverse acts as Slipknot and the Jonas Brothers.
MTV said it was bringing "FNMTV" back for another run in mid-November. Like last time, there will be no video countdown with the 10 viewer favorites.
It was the last thing that kept the M in Mtv. Sorry but the channel name should change to BStv.
Posted By: Captain America (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Finally!!!!
Posted By: Jaime (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Or Rtv, for reality television. thats all they show is BAD reality shows!
Posted By: scotty231 (Registered) on September 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Boo fucking hoo! I'm sure the JR High girls will be sad!
Posted By: kjr1984 (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 11:42 AM
And good riddance.
Posted By: Mike (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM
"Total Request Live" will soon shut down after 10 years on the air."
Wait, TRL still exists?
Posted By: nick (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 12:03 PM
YAY
Posted By: thedouce (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 12:17 PM
MTV still plays music videos? I guess not anymore now. I guess it should be called RTV for Reality Television, if you want to call that stuff "reality". Maybe UnRTV is better.
Posted By: William (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 02:20 PM
the one show that actually showed videos and they are taking it off the air-is anyone really surprised?
Posted By: jd (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 02:30 PM
Seriously, who in their right mind even watches MTV anymore?
Posted By: King Of Kings (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 02:34 PM
As much as I hated TRL, it was the only show on "MTV" that played videos. Man i wish they would wise up. MTV2 was so good for a while and now they just run Sucker free countdown marathons. It's like BET lite! I WANT MY MTV BACK!!!
Posted By: sefdog (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 02:45 PM
MTV = irrelevant now to anyone who remembers Idalis and music videos
MTVU and VH1 Classic are the last bastions of real music television.
Posted By: Soy (Registered) on September 16, 2008 at 03:21 PM
and the coffin is finally nailed shut
Posted By: gutter (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 04:08 PM
It's only overkill, the show REALLY died years ago once they cut the video clips to less than a minute and spent the rest of the show talking about nothing. Or around the time Carson left. Whichever.
FUSE > MTV
Posted By: Swift (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 05:08 PM
Not like it matters anyway, they only played like a 1/10th of each video. The show was mainly having celebs on plugging crap.
As much as I hate him, TRL truly died when Carson Daly left.
Posted By: Super Dragon (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 05:22 PM
Finaly!!! Now lets just get the whole channel off the air.
Posted By: yoda (Guest) on September 16, 2008 at 11:00 PM
About fucking time. Then again, I stopped watching MTV years ago.
Posted By: Guest#2188 (Guest) on September 17, 2008 at 08:09 AM
Guys, I was one of the lucky ones that saw MTV DEBUT in 84. It was never ALL videos, from the start they had music "news" and saturday night concerts. The shows the eventually brought in were late night sundays and were mostly british comedies like the Young Ones. (RULED!)
I honestly feel bad for you younger guys, you have to grow up with this bullshit. I at least can remember when it WAS Music Television.
Posted By: CM Wolf (Guest) on September 17, 2008 at 11:35 AM
i must say im sad that this is it. i always watched trl after school. and that fnmtv sucked! i mean i like pete but i just think the show sucked.
Posted By: Lauren (Guest) on October 14, 2008 at 04:17 PM
Damn this really freakin sux, i hate it =(
Posted By: Joely (Guest) on November 06, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I'm sorry to hear that TRL is not going to air anymore. MTV will not be the same now TRL was the only show left that MTV had with real music. I understand that it has been 10 years but it's not going to be the same.
Posted By: Carol (Guest) on November 11, 2008 at 04:08 PM
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