In the late 1980s, a group of grumpy music journalism vets and fresh-faced 20-somethings came together for a radical media experiment: the launch of a cable news division programmed for, and largely run by American youth. On May 9, 2023 — 36 years after its inception — Paramount announced that the fruits of their labor, MTV News, had been shuttered for good.
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to many of MTV News’ star reporters — Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, Alison Stewart, Chris Connelly, SuChin Pak and Gideon Yago — and visionary executives Doug Herzog and Ocean MacAdams to reminisce about the glory days of the outfit, where one day you might be hanging backstage with Prince in Paris, the next chasing a pre-White House Bill Clinton through the snowy streets of New Hampshire.
For each of them, it was a bittersweet journey they were more than happy to take.
Alison Stewart I tell my nieces,...
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to many of MTV News’ star reporters — Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, Alison Stewart, Chris Connelly, SuChin Pak and Gideon Yago — and visionary executives Doug Herzog and Ocean MacAdams to reminisce about the glory days of the outfit, where one day you might be hanging backstage with Prince in Paris, the next chasing a pre-White House Bill Clinton through the snowy streets of New Hampshire.
For each of them, it was a bittersweet journey they were more than happy to take.
Alison Stewart I tell my nieces,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thirty-six years after MTV News was created to expand the stable of programming that defined the cable channel MTV, it is no more.
MTV News was shuttered this week as part of larger layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.
What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn’t cutting it.
Correspondents like Loder, Tabitha Soren, SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Alison Stewart and others covered music, pop culture, politics and other topics with an eye toward the younger generation that was tuned to MTV, rather than the network evening newscasts.
Along the way MTV News created some pop culture moments itself, perhaps none moreso than in 1994, when President Clinton appeared on MTV’s Enough is Enough, a...
MTV News was shuttered this week as part of larger layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.
What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn’t cutting it.
Correspondents like Loder, Tabitha Soren, SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Alison Stewart and others covered music, pop culture, politics and other topics with an eye toward the younger generation that was tuned to MTV, rather than the network evening newscasts.
Along the way MTV News created some pop culture moments itself, perhaps none moreso than in 1994, when President Clinton appeared on MTV’s Enough is Enough, a...
- 5/9/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marnie Schulenburg, who played Alison Stewart on the CBS daytime soap As the World Turns, died following a battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She was 37.
The actress, who is also known for her turn as Jo Sullivan on One Life to Live, died Tuesday at a hospital in Bloomfield, New Jersey, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Schulenburg is survived by her husband, Succession actor Zack Robidas, and their 2-year-old daughter, Coda. Schulenburg and Robidas were married in 2013.
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The actress, who is also known for her turn as Jo Sullivan on One Life to Live, died Tuesday at a hospital in Bloomfield, New Jersey, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Schulenburg is survived by her husband, Succession actor Zack Robidas, and their 2-year-old daughter, Coda. Schulenburg and Robidas were married in 2013.
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- 5/18/2022
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
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J.J. Abrams‘s production company has purchased the rights to adapt TV legend Rod Serling‘s last, uncompleted screenplay, The Stops Along the Way. It is hoped a network will order an adaptation of Stops that turns the teleplay into a mini-series. The details of the story are currently secret.
A magic-performing detective, perhaps? Please, Simpsons?
Will Arnett is bringing his voice to The Simpsons, TVLine reports. He’ll play an FBI detective who goes after Homer for illegally downloading a movie.
The upcoming season of Drop Dead Diva may be gaining a hunky new guardian angel but it’s losing its hunky boss as Josh Samberg is leaving the legal dramedy.
I guess Kim is going to have to take over all the grumpiness at Harrison & Parker.
Considering all the characters who have made a return appearance on Mad Men, Vulture asks, when will we get to see Sal again?...
J.J. Abrams‘s production company has purchased the rights to adapt TV legend Rod Serling‘s last, uncompleted screenplay, The Stops Along the Way. It is hoped a network will order an adaptation of Stops that turns the teleplay into a mini-series. The details of the story are currently secret.
A magic-performing detective, perhaps? Please, Simpsons?
Will Arnett is bringing his voice to The Simpsons, TVLine reports. He’ll play an FBI detective who goes after Homer for illegally downloading a movie.
The upcoming season of Drop Dead Diva may be gaining a hunky new guardian angel but it’s losing its hunky boss as Josh Samberg is leaving the legal dramedy.
I guess Kim is going to have to take over all the grumpiness at Harrison & Parker.
Considering all the characters who have made a return appearance on Mad Men, Vulture asks, when will we get to see Sal again?...
- 6/6/2013
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
Why broadcasters want to emulate the success of Angry Birds, Moshi Monsters, Cut the Rope and others
"Wherever children are, we've got to be there with them."
No, not the words of an overbearing parent. The sentence above is what came from the lips of just about every broadcaster or producer who stepped onto the stage at the MIPJunior conference in Cannes this weekend.
The gist: lots of children are using tablets, laptops, smartphones, iPod touches and handheld games devices, so owners of children's brands and/or shows know they need to take them to those platforms. Otherwise children will find other new characters and stories to love who are there.
In a research presentation based on a survey in July 2012 of 933 British 7-16 year-olds, 1,120 parents and 202 teachers, Family Kids and Youth managing director Dr Barbie Clarke claimed that 58% of British children aged 7-16 are using a smartphone, tablet or iPod touch,...
"Wherever children are, we've got to be there with them."
No, not the words of an overbearing parent. The sentence above is what came from the lips of just about every broadcaster or producer who stepped onto the stage at the MIPJunior conference in Cannes this weekend.
The gist: lots of children are using tablets, laptops, smartphones, iPod touches and handheld games devices, so owners of children's brands and/or shows know they need to take them to those platforms. Otherwise children will find other new characters and stories to love who are there.
In a research presentation based on a survey in July 2012 of 933 British 7-16 year-olds, 1,120 parents and 202 teachers, Family Kids and Youth managing director Dr Barbie Clarke claimed that 58% of British children aged 7-16 are using a smartphone, tablet or iPod touch,...
- 10/8/2012
- by Stuart Dredge
- The Guardian - Film News
Who did you ring in the New Year with last night? Dick Clark on ABC? Carson Daly on NBC? Anderson Cooper on CNN? Or are you a Time Warner Cable subscriber? In that case, you counted down to the minutes to midnight to see if your Fox affiliate would go blank (it didn’t, as negotiations over broadcast fees stretched beyond the 12 a.m. deadline). Here at EW.com, we watched all the festivities, so you could go to bed early. Below, a morning after recap: Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest (ABC): ABC's New Year's coverage was aggressively youthful.
- 1/1/2010
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
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