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Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
MySpace Music has finally found a person to head the affairs and it is none other than Courtney Holt. We have had already reported this in the past but now the news has been officially confirmed via an internal memo sent by MTV president Van Toffler to the MTV staff. Holt was previously MTV Networks’ EVP Digital Music and Media. According to the memo published by TechCrunch : I wanted to let...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... of Integrated Marketing, joined MySpace in July. In an email to MTV staff today, President Van Toffler wrote:
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Reporting to MTV Networks music, Logo and films group topper Van Toffler, Friedman will oversee daily operations and strategy for MTV, along with platform offshoots MTV.com, MTV2, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits and MTV Jams. He'll also maintain his responsibilities at college-based network MTVU, where he has served as general manager and exec VP since 2003.
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
MTV famously missed its chance to buy MySpace. Now the network's president, Van Toffler, is investing in dozens of digital media projects -- and one might soon be a billion-dollar business
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Advertising Age - MediaWorks (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... Chief Doug Herzog. Sean Moran, exec VP-music and Logo ad sales, will report to President Van Toffler. And Jim Perry, exec VP-kids and family ad sales, will report to Nickelodeon president Cyma Zarghani.
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The Register (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... music.In a nod to concerns that the Beatles' back catalogue won't cut the mustard for youngsters, Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music/Logo Group, said that the game will be the "ultimate platform for a new generation to start a love affair with The Beatles".Jeff Jones, chief exec of Apple Corps Ltd, added that "for old hands the game offers a chance to experience the band as never...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Participants in the teleconference included MTV executives Judy McGrath and Van Toffler, and Alex Rigopulos, chief executive and co-founder of Harmonix, which created “Rock Band.” Music supervisor for the game will be Giles Martin, the son of original Beatles producer George Martin, who worked with his father in creating the double Grammy-winning soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil-Beatles show...
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Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... and be available for the holiday season in 2009. "It will be an interactive music-making game," Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music/Logo Group, said during a conference call with reporters. "I would say that there will be interactive performance of Beatles music, as well as a number of new dimensions that you haven't seen from us so far." The game will be an "innovative way to introduce"...
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Bumpshack (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... movies or TV. Putting together “Rock Band” with their songs is a coup for MTV’s Judy McGrath and Van Toffler, and shows that Apple Corps’ Jeff Jones is set to bring the Beatles into the 21st century. My mom, a huge Beatles fan, already enjoying coming over to jam with me to the likes of Kiss, Hole, Aerosmith, and Radiohead.?? Now I might not be able to get her to leave.?? Or perhaps I have...
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Eurogamer (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... yet," Rigopulos said in response to a question about DLC possibilities. MTV Networks president Van Toffler said, "We're going to provide the ultimate platform for new generations of fans to start their own love affair with the Beatles". He said the game has the blessing of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. He added that Giles Martin is doing music production...
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I Read the News Today: All Beatle News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... Jones, MTV Networks chairman and CEO Judy McGrath, and MTV Networks Music/Logo Group president Van Toffler. Gamasutra will update with more details following tomorrow’s press conference. Source: Gamasutra
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Game|Life (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... Harmonix over the creation of a "Beatles-themed video game." On the conference call tomorrow is Van Toffler, president of the MTV Networks Music/Logo Group, which includes Harmonix. Toffler was the MTV exec the company put me in touch with for our big Rock Band story . If this announcement doesn't have anything to do with videogames, why did MTV invite me ? Either way, whether or...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... Chief Executive Jeff Jones, MTV Networks Chairman and CEO Judy McGrath and MTV Networks President Van Toffler.(Reporting by Paul Thomasch and Tiffany Wu; Editing by Gary Hill)
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... Chief Executive Jeff Jones, MTV Networks Chairman and CEO Judy McGrath and MTV Networks President Van Toffler.(Reporting by Paul Thomasch and Tiffany Wu; Editing by Gary Hill)
