All you '90s kids, no Channel V on television anymore

Channel V, for the longest time, was a lot more than just a music channel. In a no-internet age, it served as YouTube's prototype feeding viewers home-grown music by indigenous rockstars and making video-jockeying young India's dream profession.

It's also known for launching the careers of several celebrities, most notably Ayushmann Khurrana, Aditya Roy Kapur, Purab Kohli, Neeti Mohan and Anushka Manchanda.

It feels like the end of an era for us '90s kids. Most things that we loved so much while growing up either don't exist anymore or are fast fading from memory: Barista, Planet M, Archies, Harry Potter, and now Channel V.

Of course, Twitter had to burst out in nostalgia. Channel V's former employees and once-upon-a-time viewers all mourned the irrevocable loss.

Poor branding, lack of a focused strategy, and low viewership killed Channel V.

However, to stay relevant, it re-invented itself every three years in the past decade.

Launched exclusively as a youth-centric music channel, it switched to fiction and reality shows in 2012, and back to music in 2016.

Channel V kept changing too drastically too soon and hence lost connect with its audience.