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Comedy Central, MTV News, CMT, TV Land Online Archives Purged By Paramount Global

A vast treasure trove of web content has vanished from Paramount's online websites.

In an enormous cultural loss reminiscent of the degaussed tapes incidents in the early days of television, Paramount Global has removed the online archives to ComedyCentral.com, TVLand.com, MTVNews.com, and CMT.com from public access. Michael Alex, part of the team that launched MTV News in 1996, posted to Facebook about the move. “It’s a huge loss and a waste of something extremely valuable to anyone who cares about the history of great music,” he wrote.

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