Former MTV Execs Tony DiSanto & Liz Gateley Unveil New Company, First Slate

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• Thank you Mr. Disanto and Ms. Gateley for continuing for enormously successful careers as supreme enemies of intelligence. Even though your time at MTV if over, you’ll still manage to create ridiculously low quality content shows for the half the cost of the other guys.
  Ms. Gateley, “probably best known for creating the game-changing hit reality series, Laguna Beach, inspired by her childhood growing up in Palos Verdes, California,” (wonder who wrote that wiki-entry, “gamechanging?”), as well as developing the never-ending searches for Nirvana that are “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant”, you have used your Law Degree from Loyola University positively.

  Mr. DiSanto, as creator of TRL, you single-handedly ruined the music industry and my childhood as well as launching the star we know now as Carson Daly into the strasophere of culture. Your amazingly “successful” programming styles have led me to search for alternative forms of life besides the amoeba that swim on your channel. Helping the Jersey Shore get on air is probably the greatest accomplishment we can attribute to you and from all of us, on Earth, we thank you.

  I hope this team is successful in developing the high-quality programming I know they are striving for. Also, nice touch by stating the DiGa means Speak in spanish. MTV have always held minorities in high esteem and use the many cultures in this country as fodder for conversation. Programs like Laguna Beach, The Hills, 8th and Ocean, Jersey Shore, Nitro Circus, Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and The Hard Times of RJ Berger really show the diversity that exist amongst this country. So many colors on one screen its like a rainbow!

  Once again, thank you to these two highly successful TV producers. May all the great content you’ve sent out into the world come back to bite you in the end.

  (If you have been a viewer of MTV over the past twenty years, you may not understand that the above comment was sarcasm. Thank you for your time.)

  Comment by brian — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 9:40am PST  Reply to this post

  • Brian – you wrote a brilliant letter. When were you fired from MTV?

    Comment by Martine — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 11:32am PST  Reply to this post

    • imho Brian hit it well.

      Comment by Kabbe — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 2:08pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Hear hear.

    Comment by Deal — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 7:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• Well said, Brian. This dreck on MTV needs to go.

  Comment by yep — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 10:32am PST  Reply to this post

• @ Brian Laughing here, but crying too, because it’s true. ugh.

  Comment by Here Here — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 10:37am PST  Reply to this post

• Agreed Brian!

  Comment by g — Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 1:27am PST  Reply to this post