Gen X'ers And Millennials Are Mourning MTV News Shutting Down, And It's Truly The End Of An Era

MTV News, which first launched on the network in 1987, is a huge iconic piece of MTV history for both Gen X'ers and millennials. And for anyone who grew up watching MTV in the '90s, they probably mostly remember it being anchored by the ever dry-witted Kurt Loder — who sometimes seemed to have a disdain for the things he was reporting on (but that was part of his charm).