Mitchell Kozuchowski

Mitchell Kozuchowski was born in Melvin, Michigan. He attended Orchard Lake St. Mary's Preparatory in Orchard Lake, Michigan, and Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan where he received a degree in Communications. He moved to New York City where he got his start in the television business. He began working in the programming department of MTV in 1983, and helped launch VH-1 in 1985. he would return to MTV's programming in 1986 before moving over to the production department in 1988. As a producer he served as the line producer for MTV's daily productions before moving into long-form production. There he worked on a wide variety of channel's productions, Spring Break, the MTV Video Music Awards, and the MTV Movie Awards. He is best known there as the writer/producer of MTV's renowned Rock N' Jock (softball, basketball, and football) series. He also served as the channels liaison with NBA Entertainment, Major League Productions, the NFL, and the National Hockey League. In 1999, he left MTV to form Vagabond Productions which has produced series and specials for several major networks, and cable channels. He has served as the writer/producer on the long running YES Network series "Centerstage with Michael Kay" since 2005. He also has served as the writer/producer for the popular Fuse TV series "On the Record" since 2009.