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Just me and the boybands…

Mark Kemp, Creative Loafing, 21 June 2012

IT WAS BEGINNING to get very surreal. For months we'd been broadcasting live out of a brand-new studio overlooking Times Square, first as MTV Live, and then later – after many long meetings and much debate involving executive outbursts like, "but dude!" – as Total Request Live.

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