The folks at MTV were exploring the new world of video rock, taking big risks and playing with the future of popular music. They wanted a logo to express that spirit and they chose space as the theme.

Someone wanted their MTV, so they bought a piece ... a guest video jockey on the network in 1986. The Paiste steel-hammered lot has the iconic MTV logo emblazoned on its front.

“We really wanted to see the logo featured in a new way, and this was really meant to be able to house all the great things that are happening at MTV at any given time.” Exarhos said the ...

See About archive blog posts. Is it a surprise to anyone actually watching MTV that the network on Monday quietly dropped ‘Music Television’ from its logo? Probably not. It’s a wonder that ...

MTV just unveiled its brand-new logo, which looks just like its old logo except the bottom part (where it used to say “Music Television”) is chopped off. According to a press release ...

In a move that signifies the end of an era, MTV will no longer include the words “Music Television” under its iconic logo. The Wrap was the first to report on the new logo, which will still ...

For its part, MTV says viewers had moved beyond what the old logo said. “The people who watch it today, they don’t refer to MTV as music television,” MTV’s head of marketing, Tina Exarhos ...

For the first time in the network’s 29-year history, MTV gave the channel’s iconic logo a face-lift, removing the words “Music Television.” The change was quietly made earlier this week.