How Maria Menounos Is Building the 'ESPN of TV Talk' With AfterBuzz TV

CEO and co-founder on new network that's breaking all the rules of advertising and engagement

Maria Menounos is a host, an author, a podcaster and even a wrestler, but she is also the CEO and co-founder of a new type of network, AfterBuzz TV, which produces more than 150 hours of programming each week and helps develop the careers of hundreds of new hosts each year.

Maria Menounos (l.) with Nadine Dietz

Growing up as the daughter of Greek immigrants who didn’t speak English, Maria quickly learned the value of hard work from the age when she could first pick up a broom to help with her family’s janitorial business.

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