MTV, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 24Robert "Bob" Johnson 4Suroosh Alvi 2Sam Calagione 2Rea Ann Silva 2Daymond John 2Ben Leventhal 2Beatriz Acevedo 2Matt Lieber 1Laura Ballance 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where MTV comes up
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
- ▶ 44:57 Guy Raz Ok, so, this is the late eighties, and something is going to happen, because anybody, I mean, you know, my age or, you know, anybody sort of over 40, let's say now, will have remembered a time when MTV actually was relevant and played… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:16 Guy Raz 1989, they launched this thing called MTV Unplugged, which would be 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:05 Guy Raz I mean, I, we've talked about the disco era, the MTV unplugged era.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
- ▶ 4:14 Ben Leventhal Um, those were the days where MTV executives were just, you know, epic heroes of, of, I guess, the sort of early media, cable media environment. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Tom Rinks of Sun Bum
- ▶ 19:30 Allison Mandelbaum I worked a lot at MTV, my Super Sweet 16, True Life, Catfish, all that fun.
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
Leading through radical change with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 22:35 Bill Simmons A little like how Rolling Stone missed with MTV in the eighties.
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva
- ▶ 15:29 Rea Ann Silva So, you're right, and if you think about the time we were in, you know, early to mid-eighties, it was the MTV revolution, and you're absolutely right, there are unions for makeup artists, and literally for anybody who works behind the… 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 5:01 Beatriz Acevedo At the height of my career, I had just won my three Emmys, my MTV award as a director and a media correspondent award, and I still got sort of canned.
- ▶ 6:33 Beatriz Acevedo So I, I went with my three Emmys under my arm, my MTV award, and a VHS tape, um, with some sort of, you know, demos to try to get my career going in the U.S., and as luck would have it, I sold my first series to Discovery Channel, and…
HOORAE: Issa Rae
- ▶ 22:06 Guy Raz I guess it was, like, kind of, maybe partially inspired, or similar, like, like the real world on MTV.
- ▶ 25:03 Guy Raz One of the ideas you had was to maybe pitch Dorm Diaries and see if you could maybe MTV or BET or somebody would be interested in helping you turn it into a, like a professional show.
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
- ▶ 9:50 David Heath And I think like every broke college kid that comes out of school, um, especially I think as well, being a product of the nineties and the MTV Cribs generation, everything was about make as much money as possible.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- ▶ 18:16 Sam Calagione Yeah, they were all in a show called The State on MTV when we were- 2 times in the scene
Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- ▶ 2:50 Guy Raz The early stations are ones we know today, CNN, MTV, HBO, ESPN.
- ▶ 14:18 John Hendricks Cable channels that had started, by that time there was a cable news network, you know, there was a sports network, ESPN, that started in 79, and there were plans for music television, MTV.
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- ▶ 41:29 Laura Ballance Trying to get MTV to pay attention.
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 16:22 Jack Conte They looked like MTV, and to see, like,
Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
- ▶ 23:34 Daymond John They started to know a little bit about it in the tight community we're at, and then, um, this one thing that just put me on the map was we would dress these two or three bodyguards that work for a guy in New York named Ralph McDaniels,…
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
- ▶ 19:45 Matt Lieber Well, I had done all these jobs in radio, and, um, I think I, I spent like a year, year and a half actually working at MTV radio.
FUBU: Daymond John
- ▶ 22:40 Daymond John Well, they started to know a little bit about it in the tight community we're at, and then, um, there's one thing that just put me on the map was we would dress these two or three bodyguards that work for a guy in New York named Ralph…
Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
- ▶ 23:36 Robert "Bob" Johnson And then when, when MTV refused to play, or started out not playing black music videos, and the black talent wanted to have their videos shown, and I went to them and say, hey, if you keep making the videos, I'll keep putting them on.
- ▶ 26:17 Robert "Bob" Johnson So, over time though, as cable began to get greater penetration, more and more programming came about, advertisers began to see the value of getting in first in advertising on BET or MTV and so on.
- ▶ 29:47 Robert "Bob" Johnson On the other hand, MTV, uh, 2 times in the scene
VICE: Suroosh Alvi
- ▶ 27:08 Suroosh Alvi Uh, we took a meeting with MTV, and they said, if we gave you money to make a DVD, what would you do? 2 times in the scene