Will Michael Hirschorn Stay At VH1?
NYPost.com reported yesterday afternoon that VH1’s brilliant executive vice president of programming Michael Hirschorn is in talks to possibly leave his comfy perch at Viacom. Hirschorn’s role at the notoriously louche VH1 has always presented itself as something of a conundrum to media observers. Hirschorn has been navigating the thin line between high and low culture since the summer of 2002, when he joined the network with a mandate to mix things up.
Hirschorn, who comes from the magazine world, has a master’s degree in comparative literature from Columbia University (with a concentration in the language of Vladimir Nabokov) and comes from a family of intellectuals.
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