If you watched MTV’s Total Request Live a.k.a. TRL in the early aughts, Damien Fahey is a familiar face. After Carson Daly left the show in 2002, Fahey took over the VJ slot, hosting the daily music ...

Carson Daly, fittingly, was quick to recognize the importance of the day: "25 yrs ago today, before Instagram, TikTok & Facebook there was TRL," Daly wrote on Instagram. "The 1st truly interactive, ...

Carson Daly chatted with Eminem, Beyonce gave a show-stopping performance, girls shrieked at the sight of Justin Timberlake and hundreds of fans lined up outside in Times Square for a glimpse at ...

The year was 1998, and MTV was in need of a new program that would capture the ever-elusive teen demographic. The network had aired countdown shows before, and they'd seen success with the Carson Daly ...

Can you make a comeback if no one even remembers you left? That’s the question we are asking ourselves after it came to our attention that the new generation of MTV viewers doesn’t even know what TRL ...

Let the countdown commence (again!): MTV is bringing back Total Request Live nearly 10 years after the show went off the air. TRL, which made Carson Daly a household name, debuted in 1998, and ...

MTV has tweaked its scheduling plans for Total Request Live after announcing last month that it was planning to expand the franchise with daily morning and late night shows this summer. Staring in ...

Today’s reminder that you’re old: Total Request Live premiered 15 years ago. MTV’s daily Top 10 music-video countdown show premiered in 1998, kicking off a 10-year run as one of pop culture’s most ...

Carson Daly still looks back on Total Request Live (TRL) fondly a quarter of a century after the culture-shaping MTV series debuted. On Thursday morning, the Today host, 50, reflected on the early ...

A technical catastrophe that struggled with the tonal whiplash between the Vegas shooting and its premiere celebration, the new ‘TRL’ didn’t even bother to play music videos. Senior Editor, Obsessed ...

They don’t make TRLs like they used to. Or maybe they do. We’re all going to find out when the formerly world-beating afternoon MTV video show reboots for a new generation Oct. 2 and every weekday ...