Two old cronies from MTV’s salad days, Bob Pittman and Tom Freston talk TV, business and nurturing talent on the latest edition of the iHeart chief’s podcast Math & Magic.
Freston notes that at MTV and parent Viacom, "A lot of focus was on creating a culture that would attract creative people; they would want to come and live there. I mean, we'd have, at one point, Judd Apatow, or Ben Stiller, or Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Adam Sandler would be sleeping in the offices sometimes; it was a hot-house atmosphere."
We have a hot house atmosphere here at HITS, too, but we’re lucky if we can even get a ripe tomato.
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