One day in 2009, Nick Cannon, the rapper and former child performer best known for portraying the likes of “Latanya” the diva-ish convenience store clerk on early-2000s Nickelodeon shows All That and The Nick Cannon Show, as well as for having married Mariah Carey once the acting and music work dried up, arrived at the Viacom offices in Times Square with plan to recapture the adolescent demo that had been his audience. Read More
Earlier this summer, when Brian Graden announced in an email to colleagues that he would be stepping down as the president of entertainment at MTV Networks at the end of the year, he didn’t cite the reasons typically invoked by media executives on their way out the door. He wasn’t starting a Huffington Post–meets–something-or-other Internet Read More
While we were all moaning and groaning about MTV bringing the Real World to Brooklyn, the network was producing their own Project Runway-type show in a Real World setting: a renovated loft in Dumbo. Today’s New York Times reports about MTV’s new show Engine Room, in which four teams of digital designers from Read More
Michael Hirschorn, the lowbrow celebreality guru and highbrow Atlantic Monthly columnist, is on the verge of signing a new deal to serve a much different role at Vh1, where he has served as Executive Vice President of Original Programming since January of 2006, according to sources familiar with the situation. Details of Mr. Hirschorn’s new Read More
So it looks like, just in time for the holidays, MTV Networks has done an about-face and decided that it’s not going to cut benefits for its many freelancers after all. Cue much rejoicing.
Gawker has the memo…
Via Gawker
Employees at Viacom’s MTV Networks (which includes, in part, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Logo, and Spike) are threatening a walkout on Monday, apparently in protest at a new plan from management that would roll back benefits to the networks’ legions of freelance workers.
