Guitar Hero Live’s GHTV service shut down on December 1, 2018.
GHTV, short for Guitar Hero TV, was the game’s online music-video mode. Instead of presenting songs only as a fixed disc-based setlist, it streamed playable performances in curated channels modeled on music television. Players could join songs in rotation or use in-game currency and other features to access additional tracks.
The shutdown affected the online GHTV catalog, not the entire game. Guitar Hero Live’s separate GH Live mode continued to function on consoles, and its 42 on-disc songs remained playable. Because GHTV had expanded the available catalog to hundreds of tracks, its closure sharply reduced the game’s playable library. Hero Cash was an in-game currency connected to GHTV, not the name of the discontinued service; PlayStation Network and Xbox Live were platform networks rather than Guitar Hero Live modes.