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MySpace's very, very long search for someone to run the social network's new music site is just about over: A person familiar with the situation says the company has just about wrapped up negotiations with Courtney Holt, who heads up digital music at Viacom's MTV.
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As MySpace’s revenue continues to grow, its music site may finally have a CEO
VentureBeat — MySpace Music, the music site created by the News Corp.-owned social network in partnership with major record labels, may finally have a chief executive: Courtney Holt. He was first named as a candidate in a CNET article, last week. Today, MediaMemo says his contract is almost but not quite signed. MySpace Music launched at the end of September, without a chief executive. Ex-Facebook chief operating officer Owen Van Natta and a variety of other candidates have already been rumored for the job. MySpace Music, a part ...

MySpace Music CEO Announced Tomorrow
SocialTimes.com — ... Peter Kafka is reporting that the MySpace Music CEO is being announced tomorrow. Mike Arrington also just claimed to me that that the report is confirmed. MySpace will be announcing Courtney Holt,who’s currently the head of digital music at Viacom, as the new CEO of MySpace Music. The service which debuted only a few weeks ago (see our posting ...

MySpace Big Announcement Tomorrow
Furrier.org - John Furrier's Personal Blog — ... I ran into MySpace exec today at Web 2.0 Summit and they are announcing their MySpace Music CEO tomorrow. She was hush hush on it but speculation is that is it.  From her facial expressions after Mike Arrington asked her directly, I’d bet that they will announce tomorrow. ...

New MySpace Music chief Courtney Holt is a dude, okay? [Corrections]
Gawker: valleywag — ... I feel sorry for Courtney Holt. Partly because the MTV executive is rumored to be taking a terrible job running MySpace Music, a feature of the social network masquerading as a separate company. But mostly because of his name. In a previous article, I was enough of a bonehead to refer to Holt as "she." Trying to do my part to promote the role of women in the tech industry, okay? ...

MySpace closes in on music boss
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... is that it's MTV's head of digital music Courtney Holt. I caught up with chief executive Chris DeWolfe today, and while he wouldn't confirm the news he did say that they hoped to announce the appointment of a boss "within a week" (as early as Thursday, perhaps?). It might be a politically expedient time to ...

MySpace Revenue Up, New Ads Up Even More
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... , which launched in September, is shopping for a CEO. AllThingD’s Peter Kafka notes, however, that the job doesn’t carry as much prestige as the title normally would, since it’s only a divisional CEO position. He says Courtney Holt, head of Viacom & MTV’s digital music, will be announced as the MySpace Music CEO tonight or tomorrow. ...

Former Facebook Exec Van Natta Set to Take Over at MySpace, As Founder DeWolfe Steps Down
BoomTown — ... , bristled at the job’s org chart: Rather than a standalone company, a la Hulu, the site News Corp. set up with GE’s (GE) NBC, MySpace Music is simply a unit of MySpace, reporting to DeWolfe. MTV executive Courtney Holt eventually took the job. ...

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