MTV Leaving Times Square

Now it's really an end of an era. Sort of.

MTV will be packing bags and leaving the MTV studio, offices, and store in Times Square in NYC by the end of this year. The location used to be the home of TRL, and saw dozens of teen girls screaming outside waiting to catch a glimpse of their favorite celebrities.

...But then that show went down the gutter (waaay down) and the studio's windows were covered for good almost a year ago.

Today, it houses It's On with Alexa Chung (fun show) and not much else. And that set has no view of Times Square so it can really be located in any random studio.

Does this mean MTV is short on money? Yeah, probably. Wouldn't be surprising with their lame show lineup. Apparently the lease is now ten times as costly as it was in 1997, when MTV first opened the studio doors and Times Square was full of crime.

Come to think of it, the fact that MTV is there hasn't mattered in at least five years. As long as it's replaced with something cool (i.e. not another Forever 21), no one will be shedding tears.