Eight years is a long time to be enamored with anything. What happened next?
Although I wasn’t part of the “staff,” I was one of the “intimates” from the beginning. I was good friends with a lot of the people who put it together, so I was around MTV a lot. I was involved in the early stages of making videos and producing them and all of that. When John Sykes (the original President of MTV) left, they were talking to a lot of people about coming to work there. I wanted to do that. One night I got a phone call at home. It was from a friend of mine who worked there who said, “How come you’re not talking to them about this job?” I said, “You’ve got it completely wrong. Why aren’t they talking to me about it?” We did end up talking. We talked for about two months as a matter of fact. I went to work at MTV in 1988 as Vice President of Programming. It was a very exciting time. I had three great years out of the four-year time I was there. I had an amazing time. We had a great team of people there, and we accomplished a lot of wonderful things.
