“Jason Hirschhorn, named global digital officer of MTV Networks in November, is leaving the Viacom-owned cable network. He will assume a transitional consulting role through the summer,” Abbey Klaassen reports for AdAge.com. “Mr. Hirschhorn has been largely credited with guiding MTV’s broadband, wireless and digital-music strategy, most recently launching Urge, a digital-music store in collaboration with Microsoft that is an ambitious challenger to Apple’s iTunes, which has largely owned the digital-music market… He plans to spend part of the summer traveling through Europe.”

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But, wait, why not stick around to enjoy the success of MTV and Microsoft’s URGE and those Italian-designed MTV portable music players? Oh, yeah, right… sorry. Hey, good move – summer in Europe sounds like a great idea!

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