LOS ANGELES (AP) — The MTV Movie Awards are getting a reboot. Network officials announced Monday that after 25 years of celebrating everything from the irreverent to the excellent in […]
Following in the stead of a number of pureplay news organizations, a majority of MTV’s staffers are now looking for union representation of their own. Daniel Marans reports that more than 80% of 50 eligible employees have voted for the Writers Guild of America, East to represent them.
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Chris McCarthy has been given oversight of MTV along with his current supervision of VH1 and Logo, Viacom said today, adding to the executive’s portfolio at a time when the New York entertainment conglomerate is under severe pressure to make many of its TV outlets more relevant to a younger generation that has embraced mobile devices and streaming video. McCarthy takes up duties very recently held by Sean Atkins, who was named MTV’s president at the end of September in 2015
Sean Atkins is stepping down as president of MTV a little over a year after joining the network. Atkins opted to leave when Viacom Music and Entertainment Group President Doug Herzog, to whom he reports, informed him of a plan to bring in an executive over him.
NEW YORK (AP) — MTV says it will consider airing its Video Music Awards live across the country in future years, a reflection of how the annual celebration of pop […]
On Aug. 1, 1981, MTV was born, starting its very first ever broadcast with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” followed by The Buggles’ 1979 hit Video Killed the Radio Star.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A helicopter working for an MTV reality show crashed in western Argentina on Saturday and both people on board were killed, local authorities said. The Bell […]
MTV might be signaling a move in digital direction with the appointment of veteran digital media executive Sean Atkins as MTV president. He replaces Stephen Friedman, whose exit was announced a short time ago. Atkins will report to Doug Herzog, president of Viacom Music and Entertainment Group.
NEW YORK (AP) — An organization that ran anti-cigarette smoking ads during the Video Music Awards has complained to MTV’s parent company about the program’s multiple references to marijuana and […]
Philippe Dauman doesn’t want his MTV — at least, not the current iteration. The Viacom CEO is ready to shed a generation of execs who helped build MTV Networks into a cable powerhouse — but then presided over its ratings decline.
MTV Networks and Major League Baseball said today they are collaborating on a weekly 30-episode series that melds pop culture and baseball. The untitled series will likely air on MTV2, which tends to have a higher proportion of male viewers than its sister station.
As Twitter prepares for its initial public offering, the San Francisco-based company is also working hard to insert itself into the TV advertising economy. In recent months, the social networking company has forged partnerships with television content owners such as CBS, MTV and the NFL through a program it calls Amplify.
