Doug Herzog
Doug Herzog is an American television executive who served as president of Viacom's Music and Entertainment Group, overseeing networks including MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Spike, TV Land, and Logo. He is best known for developing groundbreaking franchises at MTV such as The Real World, the MTV Video Music Awards, and Unplugged, and later for launching defining Comedy Central programs including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, The Colbert Report, and Key and Peele. He is set to become chair of Emerson College's Board of Trustees in June 2026, having served on the board since 2010.
“They went back and came back to me with, okay, we're eliminating the writers. What we're going to do is find seven or eight people and stick them in a loft down on Broadway and Prince Street... And that became the real world, which really launched the modern version of reality television.”
Source→“There was a fellow who was a champion for it internally named Doug Herzog, who eventually would go on and become the head of Comedy Central.”
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