Adam Curry Biography

Adam Clark Curry is a podcaster, announcer, internet entrepreneur and media personality, known for his stint on MTV as VJ and being one of the first celebrities personally to create and administer Web sites. Now known mostly for co-hosting the No Agenda show, in the 2000s, Curry first became involved in podcasting and has been called the ‘Podfather’ because of his efforts.

Adam Curry Age

Adam Clark Curry was born on September 3, 1964 in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. He is 54 years old as of 2019.

Adam Curry Wife

Curry is married to his long term girlfriend of four years, Tina Snider (dubbed “The Keeper” by John C. Dvorak on the No Agenda Show), on May 19, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Curry was also married to Micky Hoogendijk in July 2012. He announced on January 29, 2015, on the No Agenda Show that he and Hoogendijk had separated. The two divorced in 2015. Previously Curry was married to Dutch television/radio personality Patricia Paay from 1989 to 2009. They have a daughter, Christina.

Adam Curry Net Worth

Curry has a net worth of $2 million as of 2019.

Adam Curry Career

Born in Arlington, Virginia, Curry lived in Amstelveen, Netherlands, from 1972 to 1987. After a time working in Dutch pirate radio at Radio Picasso in Amstelveen and Radio Decibel in Amsterdam in the early eighties under the pseudonym “John Holden”, he got a break in broadcasting as the host of the Dutch weekly pop-music television program Countdown and the English version of the same show, which was broadcast on pan-European music channel Music Box.

Curry also hosted several other radio and television programs for the Dutch broadcast station Veronica. Aside Countdown, in the Netherlands Curry is mostly known for his part in the Curry and Van Inkel radioshow (together with Dutch DJ Jeroen van Inkel), broadcast on Radio 3 for Veronica between 19:00 and 22:00 on Friday.

He became a VJ for MTV in 1987. Besides making spot appearances between music videos, he was also host of the programs Headbangers Ball and MTV Top 20 Video Countdown in which he interviewed stars like Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. While working for MTV, Curry also did radio work, including drive-time host for the New York City radio station WHTZ, and host of the national program HitLine USA.

From November 1991 to June 1994, Curry hosted the radio countdown show “Adam Curry’s Top 30 Hitlist” for Entertainment Radio Networks.

Web and MTV.com
In 1993, Curry registered the then-unclaimed domain name “mtv.com” with the idea of being MTV’s unofficial new voice on the Internet. Although this move was sanctioned by his superiors at MTV Networks at the time, when he left to start his own web-portal design and hosting company, OnRamp Inc, MTV subsequently sued him for the domain name.

OnRamp eventually grew to 4,000 employees and was sold to Think New Ideas Inc., another company that he co-founded, becoming Chief Technology Officer of Think. When the Internet was undergoing its “bubble” in 1996, the company made an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. It subsequently grew to employ over 7400 people and with offices in seven countries and was absorbed into Answerthink Inc., in a later merger.

Curry founded a video sharing site called PodShow in 2005, which later changed its name to Mevio, with Ron Bloom. Mevio claimed to have reached 9 million unique visitors in May 2008. It offers advertisers “brand safe” content on a large scale. It raised a US$15 million third round in July 2008, bringing the total amount it has raised since its launch to over US$38 million. Mevio later rebranded as Bitesize Entertainment and ultimately BiteSizeTV, located in Los Angeles, CA.

Enterprises in the U.S. and Europe
After selling his business in the U.S., he and his family moved to the Netherlands in 1999, where Curry hosted a morning talk/music show for Radio Veronica. Curry also landed various television assignments and his family briefly starred in the reality show Adam’s Family.

In 1999, Curry and two business partners founded the multimedia company United Resources of Jamby. It was to act as an incubator and cultivator for new internet-related businesses. The business was ultimately unsuccessful. His participation in Kennisnet, another venture to introduce the Internet to Dutch schools, ended in a bitter argument and lawsuits. Sportus.nl, an online webshop in collaboration with Dutch athletes like Marcel Wouda, Jacco Eltingh, Ron Zwerver and Daniëlle Overgaag, began in 1999, went bankrupt in 2001. Another content exchange project, Freedom Controller was cancelled in 2002.

Curry and business partner Simon Cavendish, a participant in his earlier ventures, founded the RotorJet company in 2000 to offer helicopter services. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2005. In the subsequent dispute, Cavendish seized the assets of the company and in April 2005, Curry was ordered by a Dutch court to repay approximately US$3 million that he had withdrawn from RotorJet.

In 2002 Curry produced and starred in the reality soap Adam’s Family: een kijkje in het leven van de familie Curry which was aired by the Dutch SBS6 network.

In January 2005, Curry founded PodShow, now Mevio, with his business partner Ron Bloom. PodShow is a podcast promotions and advertising company that encompasses the Podshow Podcast Network, the Podcast Delivery Network and the Podsafe Music Network. Some of Podshow’s top podcasts are his own Daily Source Code, The Dawn and Drew Show and GeekBrief.TV.

Curry hosted a weekday evening show on Sirius Satellite Radio called ‘Adam Curry’s PodShow’ from June 2005 to May 2007.

In late 2005 he was caught making anonymous edits to the Podcast Wikipedia page, deleting several sections concerning contributions made by fellow podcasting pioneers, Kevin Marks and Stephen Downes, while adding material that emphasized his own involvement with the development of the medium.

Curry went on to evoke ignorance as his primary defense stating, “I edited out the Marks part previously because I never saw a full front-to-back solution that he was credited for…Once I saw the video of the session where he does demo it, after saying he had spoken to me and I had ‘challenged’ him to create it, I realized I was in error.” Curry also claimed to have difficulty with the Wikipedia interface, claiming he had originally planned to revise the paragraphs to include his recollections of events but instead became “exasperated” with the process and decided to give up.

Since October 2007, Curry has hosted the twice-weekly podcast the No Agenda Show with John C. Dvorak, discussing recent news whilst deconstructing mainstream news media. The podcast does not accept any advertising and is solely supported by the listeners.

He has heavily promoted his podcasting endeavors. Curry promoted his podcast Daily Source Code in Second Life under the name ‘Adam Neumann’, together with a Second Life island called Podshow Island. Curry used podcasting to endorse 2008 Republican Presidential hopeful Ron Paul. Curry also uses his show to discuss alternative takes on topics in the daily news, and also offering up topics of discussion that are “off the beaten path”, like Free energy suppression and the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Curry is widely credited for popularizing the podcast medium. As Annalee Newitz noted in Wired, “Every new medium needs a celebrity and Curry is happy to fill that role.”