Beth McCarthy or Beth McCarthy-Miller was the director of NBCs Saturday Night Live starting in 1995. She left SNL at the end of season 31, replaced as director by Don Roy King. She became a director for Viacoms MTV in 2003 when she directed the MTV Video Music Awards. NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center and is shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Viacom (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIAb) is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). ... MTV (Music Television) is a cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ...

She started out as an intern at MTV, then worked as an assistant to the line producer and then began directing in 1988. During her nine years with MTV, she worked on MTV Unplugged with Nirvana, Neil Young, Tony Bennett and kd lang. MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ... Nirvana was a popular grunge rock band from Aberdeen, Washington, United States. ... Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Tony Bennett, 2000 Tony Bennetts heart, left in San Francisco Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926) is an American popular music, standards, and jazz singer who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

She currently operates through her company Catalyst Entertainment.

Director

• Saturday Night Live
• MTV Unplugged
• 1996-1999, 2001-2003, 2005 MTV Video Music Awards
• America: A Tribute to Heroes
• Super Bowl 35 & 38 Half-Time Shows

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ... America: A Tribute to Heroes was a benefit concert organized in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and United States television networks. ...

Awards

• Emmy Award, nominee 4 times
• Cable ACE Awards
• Directors Guild of America Award, winner 2 times

An Emmy Award. ... The CableACE Award was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programing. ... Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. ...

References

• IMDB: Beth McCarthy
• Wake Forest University Beth McCarthy