Viacom confirmed today that at the end of 2009, MTV will vacate their famed Times Square Studio!!!

MTV opened the Times Square studio in 1997, and it then became famous when it launched the show TRL with then host Carson Daily.  Since TRL went off the air last fall, Viacom (owner of MTV networks) doesn’t really feel the need to keep the 22,216-square-foot studio.

The studio is currently owned by SL Green.