Trygve myhren biography samples
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The Roundhouse Blog
Did you know that one of the most successful career awareness campaigns in history happened in the 1990s?
On November 23, 1993, the president of the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island, Trygve Myhren, saw the future of media in cable television and launched the TV Food Network (later renamed The Food Network). The channel became a känsla, turning many chefs into celebrities and introducing millions of Americans to the idea of cooking for a living.
In that year, postsecondary institutions issued culinary degrees to 7,218 people. Just ten years later, in 2003, that number more than tripled to 22,009 awarded degrees, and by the end of that decade – 2010 – that number jumped even higher to 34,028.
That doesn’t man this an unqualified success, of course: By glamorizing the yrke, featuring celebrity chefs without showing the years of low-paying, hard work it takes to establish yourself, many went into the field with unrealistic expectations and
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John Malone
Interview Date: October 22, 2001
Interviewer: Trgyve Myhren
MYHREN: I’m Tryg Myhren, Trygve Myhren to those Norwegians out there, and I’m here with John Malone in his offices at Liberty Media and it is Monday, October 22nd at 2:00 in the afternoon and we’re doing John’s oral history. This is a program of The Cable Center. It is generously underwritten by Gus Hauser. John, good to see you again.
MALONE: Nice seeing you, Tryg. I thought you were Danish! What’s this Norwegian stuff?
MYHREN: Oh, this Norski stuff is important.
MALONE: Well, you know, my wife’s Norwegian.
MYHREN: Leslie’s Norwegian?
MALONE: Oh, yeah. Erickson.
MYHREN: I’ll be darned. Well, that says even more good things about you. That’s great. I think, John, in starting this we might set the stage by talking about when you entered the industry and how that came to be. Could you tell us a little bit about that?
MALONE: Sure.
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Food Network
American basic cable channel launched in 1993
This article is about the American channel. For the Canadian version, see Food Network (Canadian TV channel). For other uses, see Food Network (disambiguation).
Television channel
Logo used since 2013 | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | Food Network +1 (UK) |
| Owner | |
| Parent | Television Food Network, G.P. |
| Sister channels | |
| Launched | November 23, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-11-23) |
| Former names | TV Food Network (1993–96) |
| Website | foodnetwork.com |
| Freeview(UK) | Channel 43 |
| DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 175 |
| Affiliated Streaming Service | Max |
| Services | fuboTV, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Philo, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Vidgo |
Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Foo