Total Request Live

Total Request Live (known from 1998 to 2008 as TRL) was a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. In addition to music videos, the show also featured daily guests.

TRL played the top ten most requested music videos of the day, as requested by viewers who voted for their favorite video online. The countdown started with the tenth most requested video of the day and ended with the most requested video of the day. As of October 22, 2007, the countdown was based on votes, charts, ringtones, downloads, radio airplay, and streams, meaning that the video that the user requested might not have been the number one video of the day. The show mainly aired from Monday to Thursday for an hour, but the scheduling and length of the show has changed over the years. Even though the word "Live" is in the show's title, a lot of the show's episodes have actually been pre-recorded.

On September 15, 2008, it was announced that TRL would be over and it was later replaced by another show.^[1] A special, three-hour finale was aired on November 16, 2008 at 8 p.m.^[2]

Until 2010, a local version of TRL was still running in Italy on MTV.

1. ↑ "Report: MTV to Cancel TRL". Broadcasting & Cable. 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
2. ↑ Vena, Jocelyn. "Beyonce To Perform On 'TRL' Finale". MTV News. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-02-13.