“Total Request Live” is coming back to MTV, The New York Times reports. MTV President Chris McCarthy promises its return in October, and says that “a massive studio” facing Times Square is currently under construction. “If we’re going to come back and reinvent MTV, the studio is a given,” he says. “It is the centerpiece.” The afternoon show, originally hosted by Carson Daly and filmed in a Times Square studio, ran on MTV from 1998 to 2008. It played the top 10 most requested music videos of the day and featured celebrity and musician guests. This June and July, MTV experienced back-to-back months of ratings growth for their core audience (18 to 34-year-olds) for the first time in four years. “TRL”’s return follows the re-engineering of MTV reality shows “Fear Factor” and “Wild ’n Out.”

In the interview, McCarthy also addressed his decision to kill MTV News, which recently laid off several staff writers and freelancers in order to create “more video and short-form content for a younger audience.” “MTV at its best — whether it’s news, whether it’s a show, whether it’s a docu-series — is about amplifying young people’s voices,” he says. “We put young people on the screen, and we let the world hear their voices. We shouldn’t be writing 6,000-word articles on telling people how to feel.”