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 ...

For those of a certain age, the letters TRL mean a great deal. The super-popular block of fan-voted songs and music videos on MTV known as Total Request Live, which launched in 1998 and was programmed ...

NEW YORK - MTV's "Total Request Live" is no longer totally live. It's another sign of how both the audience and cultural juice have faded for "TRL," once the most influential program on television for ...

Total Request Live was a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continued to concentrate on reality-based programming.