Ep 236 | Katie Daryl | TV host & AXS TV VP on Her Journey From Radio DJ to Music Media Star
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 236 features Katie Daryl — award-winning TV host, producer, and VP of Programming at AXS TV. From her early start as a teen radio DJ, to reporting for MTV's Choose or Lose, co-hosting The Mark Cuban Show, and creating smash hit series like The World's Greatest Tribute Bands and The Top Ten Revealed, Katie has built a career at the intersection of music, media, and storytelling.
🎙️ Don't miss this fantastic conversation as Katie shares her journey, her love for rock-'n-roll culture, and how she continues to shape music television for fans around the world. Fun fact: back in 2006, after long days in law school, our host Benny Gold would unwind by watching Katie's show Deadline!—a reminder that there's more to life than casebooks and exams. A true personal fan moment brought full circle!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:17.0 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:25.6 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, I'm especially excited because we're joined by someone I've been a personal fan of since her deadline days, Katie Daryl. |
| 0:49.3 | Katie's a television host, producer, and executive known for her quick wit, rock star interviews, and her ability to spotlight authentic stories. |
| 1:00.4 | That's something we value deeply here at lawyer stories, connecting people through storytelling. |
| 1:06.3 | As an alumna of the Walter Concrete, Kronkite, excuse me, school of journalism at Arizona State University, |
| 1:13.6 | Katie got her big break with Mark Cuban's HDNet. |
| 1:16.6 | And today, she's now best known as the host, |
| 1:20.6 | an executive producer of Access hit series, |
| 1:25.6 | The Top Ten Revealed. She also dedicates her platform to causes like hit series, the top 10 revealed. |
| 1:28.6 | She also dedicates her platform to causes like Cancer Can Rock and the She Rocks Award |
| 1:34.7 | and brings her community together every day on Instagram at Katie Daryl. |
| 1:40.2 | I know that was a lot, Katie, but welcome to lawyer stories. |
| 1:44.4 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here and be but welcome to lawyer stories. Thank you. |
| 1:45.1 | Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here and be chatting with you today. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm going to do all my introductions. As I enter the grocery store, I could have you just be like, ladies and gentlemen, Katie Daryl, as seen on TV. Can I do it? I'd be happy to do it. That's amazing. Yeah, no, there's a lot. |
| 2:01.3 | I mean, there's a lot to say. |
| 2:02.4 | You could talk for a long time about all the amazing accomplishments you've had and like where you've started and like where you are now. And of course, like I, you know, just on a personal note, I connected with your show, deadline. I graduated loss in 2006. |
| 2:19.0 | And that was like sort of when deadline was going on. |
| 2:21.7 | So I'd be in this like rigorous, like, |
| 2:23.6 | challenging, competitive world. |
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