Steve Blame

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Steve Blame, 2016

Steve Blame (born Stephen James on January 2, 1959 in Chelmsford ) is a British television presenter and developer of TV formats.

Career

Blame was an editor at MTV Europe and spokesman for MTV News from 1987 to 1994 . His coming out on the station let his superiors from America discuss whether you can be gay on MTV , which was cleared up after Christine Gorham's remark that everyone is gay on European television. He interviewed major pop stars from Madonna to Paul McCartney during this period , and brought secular leaders and religious figures to MTV. Michail Gorbachev , Jacques Delors , Shimon Peres and even the Dalai Lama were asked about daily events by Blame. He always started his news presentations with “Hi, Steve Blame here with MTV News” and ended with “I see you soon, and have a good one” .

After leaving MTV in 1994, the math and physics graduate from the University of Exeter relocated to Cologne, where he played a decisive role as program director in the development of the former music channel VIVA Zwei . Under his leadership, the station won the "Gold Art Director's" award for on-air design in 1996. However, he had to leave the station after two years due to differences with the founder Dieter Gorny . Blame sued against his dismissal and was able to obtain a severance payment of 200,000 DM after a month-long process.

In 2002 he helped set up the former TV music channel Tango TV in Luxembourg and became its first program director for a short time.

Today Blame develops international television formats, sitcoms and scripts . His format “Where is the Money” was nominated for the Rose d'Or television entertainment award in 2005 and was broadcast both in Holland (as “bank secret”) and in Spain.

In April and May 2010 Blame acted together with Oliver Petszokat and Anja Lukaseder as a jury member at the TV station Kabel 1 in the program “Germany's best party band”.

In October 2010, Steve Blame published his autobiography Getting Lost Is Part of the Journey: MTV, Deutschland und ich , in which he reported in episode form about his self-discovery process, his time in the music TV business and his drug problems at the time.

literature

  • Steve Blame, Stephan Glietsch (translator): Getting Lost Is Part of the Journey: MTV, Germany and me . 1st edition. Lübbe, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7857-6039-0 .
  • Steve Blame: Between red wine, fillet steak and pop star neuroses - a dinner with Steve Blame and the question of how pop stars transform the darkest moments of their lives into their greatest successes . 1st edition. gONZo, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-944564-02-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Steve Blame in Hörbar Rust on radio Eins ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Steve Blame: Getting Lost Is Part of the Journey , Lübbe Verlag, 2010; Excerpt: The beginnings of MTV in Europe - TV pioneers on coke , einestages.spiegel.de, January 23, 2011
  3. Steve Blames autobiography Getting Lost Is Part of the Journey: MTV, Deutschland und ich ; Lübbe Paperback, 2011; P. 16