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Amanpour and Company

MTV Creator Tom Freston on His Iconic Career and the Future of Creativity

Season 2025 Episode 8034 | 18m 15s

MTV was the first-ever 24-hour cable network dedicated solely to music videos. Launched in the 1980s, MTV brought hit songs to the living rooms of audiences across the globe. Tom Freston is a co-founder of the once-beloved video channel and former CEO of Viacom. Freston speaks with Walter Isaacson about his career, the birth of MTV, and his new memoir "Unplugged."

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