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In this episode of The Track Star Podcast, we sit down with Tom Freston, one of the founding executives behind MTV, to trace how a risky cable experiment grew into a defining cultural institution. Through a chronological run of songs and moments, Freston walks us through MTV’s evolution: launching music video culture in the U.S., forcing cable companies to carry the channel, shaping how artists were presented, and gradually expanding from nonstop videos into the VMAs, Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, To
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