Alan Mruvka of E! Entertainment Television: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a C-Suite Executive

Alexandra Spirer
Authority Magazine
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10 min readApr 15, 2021

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I think that executive and C-Suite leaders must be motivating, similar to a great coach in sports. You have a certain responsibility to be motivational. There are some executives that scold people when they make a mistake, but it is ultimately the leader’s responsibility to train their team properly and lead them in the right direction.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Alan Mruvka. Alan Mruvka is the co-founder and creator of E! Entertainment Television. Yes, that’s E! Entertainment Television. Alan literally created the first ever 24-hour celebrity obsessed news station in America, what he considers one of his most distinguished accomplishments to date.

Now in its 31st year, E! Entertainment Television is his monumental success, having revolutionized a genre of entertainment and celebrity-based news, and is now a Comcast company that is valued at over twelve billion dollars. E! Entertainment Television was groundbreaking at the time, as it became the first Entertainment program that ran celebrity news 24 hours a day, a vision Mruvka had that many doubted. To this day, his idea and concept for the network is extremely successful and is one of the few U.S. general-entertainment cable channels that broadcasts daily with millions of viewers.

Mruvka is an avid philanthropist. He is a supporter of and is involved in several charities including Wounded Warrior Project, St. Joseph’s School for the Blind, Special Olympics, the Make-A-Wish Foundation and others. Mruvka also recently announced the establishment of the StorageBlue Scholarship Fund for sending underprivileged inner city kids to the prestigious St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey. Even further, Mruvka recently announced a corporate partnership with Goodwill, establishing the BlueWorld Initiative, where StorageBlue drivers collect and bag unused clothes from customers while making pick-ups.

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Alexandra Spirer
Authority Magazine

I am an entrepreneur, publicist, journalist and event producer based in Sunny Florida. My passion is writing & giving back to others.