• Los Angels Times, Friday, February 8, 2008 11:15 AM

Christina Norman, president of MTV since 2005 and a top protege of former Viacom Inc. Chief Tom Freston, will leave the company at the end of the month. Explains Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks and Logo Group, Norman -- a 17-year veteran of MTV and VH1 -- wants "to explore something new." Norman isn't talking, but under Freston, who left Viacom in 2006, she was elevated from the promotion department in 2002 to become general manager of VH1 and eventually its president.

She was widely credited with turning around the network with a dose of creativity into its bureaucratic culture. "Christina has led with incredible integrity, creativity, business savvy, perspective, spirit and humor." Toffler says. No replacement has been named yet but Toffler will fill in on interim basis.

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