OMG, Shut Up Everyone! Like, MTV Moves Out of Times Square Studio; Future of Music Now All “Uncertain” and Shit!

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...HUH? WHA?! Oh... sorry guys, I guess I nodded off there. Jeeeez I’m tired today. Um, I’m supposed to be writing this story about how MTV is apparently moving out of its “famed studio overlooking Times Square” in New York City at the end of this year, according to their landlord, SL Green. *Yaaawn*... oh, ‘scuse me... but yeah, I know, right? According to the New York Post, I guess that MTV's parent company, Viacom, didn't renew its studio lease when it extended its lease on more than 1 million square feet of offices at, ummmmmm... hang on... let me see... ah: at 1515 Broadway, between 44th and 45th streets, last year. And while it could still make an offer on the space (which is, I guess, now possibly 10 times more costly than it was 12 years ago, or whatever or something), it has not yet... you know... done that, blah blah blah. Man, I did NOT get enough sleep last night!

Ummm, mum, mum, mum, mum... lets see heeeeeere: It says here that “‘We're taking it back from MTV at end of year,’ SL Green Leasing Director Steven Durels said. ‘We're actively marketing it, and we think it will be the crowning touch of the retail development we've done since we bought the building,’ which signed store tenants Billabong, Element, and Bank of America.” God, this print is kinda small.

Well, whatever-his-name-is also said the 22,216-square-foot, second-floor studio -- which has block-long, 167-foot frontage and 16-foot-high windows visible to daily hordes of office employees, shoppers, and visitors from around the world -- could be used as a store, or for another "broadcast use." Like, duh right? God, my back hurts today... but yeah, sorry... uh, I guess old boy didn't say how much Green was asking, but databases list it at $450 per square foot for the studio, and a, *yaaaaaaaaaawn*, $1,000 per square foot for the 1,624-square-foot MTV store at street level, which must be taken with the studio space, for a total rent of... oh my fucking god, hang on... where’s that calculator... ah, yeah: of $11.6 million a year. Sheesh, how about that? Guess they probably can’t afford it or somethin’, huh? GOD, I am so HUNGRY too! Where’s that intern with those Jimmy John’s orders?

Siiiiigh. Whatever. Back to work. Focus, focus. Breaking news here. Aggggghhhhhhhm!!! Aaaaaaand, of course, MTV opened the studio there in 1997, when Times Square was emerging from its age of crappy, porny, violent, muggy whateverness, and blah blah blah, blah blah. The studio served as home to TRL and Carson Daly, da-dah, da-dah, da-dah. And it drew throngs of annoying tweens with cell phones to the "magical" sidewalks below, screaming and yelling and skipping school and hoping to spot their favorite stars and snag autographs and...

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