MTV, which is owned by Viacom (NYSE: VIA), is canceling one of its most iconic shows: TRL, the popular and once-influential daily top music video countdown.TRL debuted in 1998 with Carson Daly as its host, and reached its height of relevance popularizing hits from teen-pop stars like NSYNC, Britney Spears and The Backstreet Boys.
Daly left the show in 2003 to host his own late-night show and since then, a revolving door of forgettable video jockeys have emceed TRL.
The last epsiode will appear in November, according to E!
MTV will still be showing music videos when it begins more regular showings of FNMTV, hosted by Fall Out Boy frontman Pete Wentz on Friday nights.
I'm dating myself here, but there was a time when I would rush home from junior-high school in order to pick up the corded rotary phone and vote for George Michael videos on Dial MTV. This was before the former Wham! star's legal foibles, before the Internet, and before MTV stopped playing music videos altogether. Hosted by the big-haired and smooth-voiced Adam Curry, the show played the top-ten most requested videos of the day, as called in by viewers. Simple enough. 
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