TRL, or Total Request Live, was a show on MTV that started back in 1997. The show featured a daily countdown of the most requested music videos of the day. The videos were picked by viewers by going online and voting for their favorite video. The video that made number one the most amount of times was "Baby, One More Time" by Britney Spears. The show was hosted by Carson Daly all the way up to 2002, when he decided to step down and a rotation of other VJs hosted the show. It was shown every Monday through Thursday. TRL is that longest running live show on MTV, and the third longest running show of all time on MTV. This show kept music on the air, after reality shows had started taking over a bit. In November 2008, TRL aired its last episode, which lasted 3 hours. Throughout the episode, the set was being torn down. The very last video shown on the show was Britney Spears' "Baby, One More Time" and at the end of the show, the VJs, Damien and Lindsey, shut down the lights. This was a very iconic moment in MTV history, and I remember watching the final show. It was sad for me, after watching it everyday after school for years.
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