Dave Sirulnick is an American television producer. Sirulnick was born on May 26, 1964, and grew up and graduated from high school in Teaneck, New Jersey, and became involved with booking musicians such as LL Cool J, Run DMC, and Salt-N-Pepa at the nearby Bergenfield, New Jersey, roller rink. He later attended Rutgers University. After the university, he was hired as a news producer at CNN through his father's connections. Sirulnick was eventually involved with Nirvana.In 1987, he joined MTV, claiming that they "wanted someone to grow their news department. It's what I wanted my whole life: TV, music and news". He eventually became the executive vice president for Multiplatform Production, News and Music at MTV. Sirulnick's responsibilities included oversight of MTV's signature show, Total Request Live. Half of MTV's programming had been within his job functions. He was the chief architect of the MTV Video Music Awards. In March 2015, he and others were dismissed from their positions at MTV by Viacom, the parent corporation.As of January 2019, Sirulnick is a partner at RadicalMedia.