KB

MTV's Chris Connelly


Listen Later

🎬💿 Welcome to KB: The After-Show — MTV Edition! 💿🎬Where you have no idea what year it is! You’ve just stepped into KB’s MTV Wonderland, where time rewinds to the golden era of music television — and pop culture is forever young.

TONIGHT’S GUEST: The legendary MTV and ABC journalist Chris Connelly — the man who lived, breathed, and reported the pulse of a generation.

We’re diving into:

* Growing up on Manhattan Island (with all the grit and groove)

* Katie’s childhood MTV tapings — yes, literally on VHS

* Why so many classic MTV clips never made it to YouTube 👀

* Life at Rolling Stone, working beside Kurt Loder

* Behind the lens of MTV’s The Big Picture

* The wild ride from print journalism to live TV

* The magic (and chaos) of the live show era

* What made the MTV audience unlike any other

* The back injury Chris still remembers

* Reflections on the end of MTV’s cultural chapter 💔

* Woodstock ‘99 — What The Hell Happened?

* The art of asking (and not asking) questions as a journalist

* All The Graceland Vibes!

* True crime: Cold Blooded Mystery In Alaska (20/20)

* Chris’s heartfelt story about reporting the death of Tupac Shakur

* Memories of Afeni Shakur, (Tupac’s Mother).

💥 Plug in. Press play. Relive the music, media, and mayhem that shaped a generation. This is KB: The After-Show — part of our MTV series.

Don’t forget to check out the TV edition on YouTube! 📺

#woodstock99 #newyorkcity #mtv #tupacshakur #kb #mtv



This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit katie1987.substack.com
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

KBBy Katie Black