Doug Herzog
| Doug Herzog | |
|---|---|
| Born | Douglas Alan Herzog July 16, 1959 Patterson, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Emerson College |
| Occupation | President, Viacom Music and Entertainment Group |
| Employer | Viacom Media Networks |
| Title | President |
| Awards | Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame |
Doug Herzog is an American television executive. The president of Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, he oversees MTV, VH1, Logo TV, Comedy Central, Palladia, Spike, and Epix.[1] Herzog is credited with bringing South Park, The Auditors, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report to Comedy Central and canceling Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Biography
He was born on born July 16, 1959. Herzog graduated from Emerson College in Boston. After college, one of his early jobs was as a music-segment producer on the nationally syndicated Entertainment Tonight show in Hollywood.
He has held senior positions with USA Network, where he helped launch Monk, and at Fox, launching Malcolm in the Middle. Prior to his first association with Comedy Central, he had been an Associate Producer on CNN and TBS, and a senior manager at MTV, and was responsible for MTV News, Camp MTV, The Real World, Road Rules, Beavis and Butt-head, The MTV Movie Awards, and The MTV Video Music Awards.
Legacy
He is mentioned in the South Park episode "Cartoon Wars Part II". In the episode, Kyle gives a speech to the president of the network as Cartman threatens to shoot him. The speech, in which Kyle begs the president not to censor an image of Muslim prophet Muhammad, is taken almost verbatim from a speech that Trey Parker gave to Herzog concerning censorship of the episode, so Kyle calls the president Doug, referring to Herzog. However, even though Muhammad had previously been shown on South Park, the image of Muhammad was censored by Comedy Central in "Cartoon Wars".
Awards
Herzog has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame[2]
References
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- ↑ B&C Hall of Fame, Doug Herzog
External links
| Business positions | ||
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| Preceded by
Robert Kreek
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President of Comedy Central 1995-1998 |
Succeeded by Larry Divney |
| Preceded by | President of FOX 1998-2000 |
Succeeded by Gail Berman |
