Harvey Levin

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508 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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On with Kara Swisher · TMZ’s Harvey Levin Says Politics Is Pop Culture · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

They used to cover parties.

I am so pleased to be able to talk to you.

We go back to the beginning of TMZ.

Warner Brothers killed it twice.

We were owned by Warner Brothers, by Telepictures.

And in 2008,

I think it was 2008.

I said I wanted to do TMZ DC.

And at the time, we were with AOL.

It was a partnership between Telepictures and AOL.

And I went back and forth to Washington, hired a staff.

We were going to have our launch dinner and open our office the next morning.

And I got a call just before leaving for dinner saying, I got some bad news for you.

We're killing it.

And they killed it.

What I later found out was that AOL in particular, although I think

Warner Brothers as well, but AOL in particular, they were worried because of regulations, that they were afraid that we might piss off a congressman who they needed for some regulatory act or whatever.

And the more they talked about it, the more scared they got and they killed it.

I mean, this is classic corporate culture.

And so they killed it twice when we were over there at Warner Brothers.

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