Tony DiSanto is the Executive Vice President of Series, Development and Animation for MTV and Head of Programming for MTV2. He is also the Executive Producer of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, Run's House, The Hills, 8th and Ocean, and The Andy Milonakis Show. In 1998 he co-created Total Request Live ("TRL") with Carson Daly, as well as Say What? Karaoke, two shows that had long runs on MTV. Tony is a graduate of NYU Film School and worked as a director of music videos, short films and promotional spots prior to taking a staff production job at MTV in the mid-1990s.