Playboy's 20Q: Carson Daly

Playboy's 20Q: Carson DalyThree years ago, MTV plucked Californian Carson Daly from radio and moved him to the Big Apple, handed him a studio overlooking Times Square and charged him with reviving the network's sagging ratings. Daly's first days in New York were spent ''talking to executives about the plan for making MTV cool again. We were at our worst.'' Daly and the MTV brass (''the young hip suits,'' he says, ''even if they're not wearing suits'') hit upon the formula of playing audience-req...