Comments on: ManiaTV Cuts Half Its Staff To Entice Buyers, But Will It Be Enough?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:35:49 +0000

A retraction from my previous comment. Peter Hoskins would never make the cut at In N Out and will likely be down the road at Burger King serving onion rings and working register on the night shift. Good luck Peter!! We wish you the best!!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:32:43 +0000

Mania TV had the most cancerous management department a company has ever seen. This was one of the creepiest groups of ego maniacal, self absorbed liars I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. I wish them all success as In N Out shift managers which is where their "credentials" will take them.

By: The King of The Hill

The King of The Hill — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:27:48 +0000

The best show they had going was the Queer's Edge.
Funny as shit….and smart too.
It had Jeff Jett and Sandra Bernhardt

By: Wayne Price

Wayne Price — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:56:35 +0000

I would like to say from an objective point of view that ManiaTV did provide a great vision in the early years and even today the shows are produced well and I know from my own experience, that it takes a dedicated staff and crew as well as host, reporters and all those involved in the production end to come up with good quality content. I have followed the rise and it seems now the fall of of great concept that probally did not have the management to run a good company. TOO BAD TOO SAD and if anyone knows anyone we are always looking for good people, so far I have been blessed and just like to say for those who made ManiaTV programming good on you.

By: Oakside

Oakside — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:21:34 +0000

INSIDER…as someone who had the pleasure of knowing some of those very people you correctly cite in your post, right on! While I can't comment on what things were like at the beginning, you are dead on accurate in your appraisal of said ego-maniac CEO. This is a guy who should NEVER be allowed near a company again, much less in a position of authority. Everything you say is true and then some. He is, by far, one of the most dishonest, disreputable and disgusting execs in the new media space. I only wish some of the fawning tech blogs and sites like Tubefilter and TV Week had actually looked into the lies he would spin in the press. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see none of them ever added up yet these sites regurgitated the lies as truth. As the old saying goes…he's a bad, bad man. How he goes home at night and faces his family is beyond me.

By: Insider View

Insider View — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:43:35 +0000

Now that the train wreck is over, something should be pointed out. There were GREAT people who worked very hard for many years in the studios of maniaTV, from Denver and LA. There were many magical years, from launching the first ever live 24 hour webtv network, to launching a show from Tom Green's house, the Indie Music bus, Dave Navarros Spread and more. There was real magic there and they were pioneers. Then, unfortunately, an ego-maniac CEO took over and cast away those that didn't agree with him. He lied to his staff and made them look stupid in public. He lied to his customers and made them look bad. He disenfranchised the audience there to give maniaTV a shot. oh well, it was fun for a while.

By: Oakside

Oakside — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:03:04 +0000

Looks like NO ONE is at maniaTV anymore from the story hitting the wire today. It's shutting down. Unless Hoskins wants to do another lie-filled interview like he has been doing since January to convince people otherwise. Of course, looking at his self-aggrandizing Twitter feeds, he could care less. What do people and lives matter when you can continue to run on the beach and act like you're the king of a kingdom that never existed?

By: Daniel Paul

Daniel Paul — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:10:30 +0000

Daniel Paul is still at maniaTV. Thanks for asking JOOST'd up! I hope you are well.

By: kelleyl194

kelleyl194 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:43:56 +0000

sounds like all of these people involved are a bunch of liars. smoke and mirrors all the way……to the bank? I don't think so.

By: lodgegoat

lodgegoat — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:54:01 +0000

Did they ever turn a profit? We have to turn a profit to keep the doors open.