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Sharon Gomes Thomas - MTV News; Alan M. Wong (Singapore) - MTV; Rita Tsang (British Chinese)- MTV News; Daniel Mananta (Indonesia) Belinda Lee Xin Yu (Singapore) Danny McGill (USA) Original VJ of the first Incarnation of MTV Asia, moved to Channel V and moved back to MTV Asia/MTV India (Second Incarnation) Anu Kottoor (India) [5] Zarina Safuan ...
The first 24 hours of MTV were held together by duct tape. It was so seat-of-the-pants, it was scary. Mark: That was the thing about MTV, completely, at the beginning: Nobody knew nothing.
Two days later Quinn got the news she was an MTV VJ. [3] Quinn joined Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter and J. J. Jackson as original faces and voices of MTV. Being hosts of the nation's first music television network provided them with an in-depth and up-close perspective on the most popular rock/pop music and artists of the 1980s.
Quinn et al weren’t just the faces of MTV — they also became real-life friends, cohosting subsequent shows together, and even coauthoring a tell-all book, VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's ...
It underwent a transition to emulate a full Top 40 station in 1984. Fresh-faced young people hosted its programming and introduced videos. Many VJs became celebrities in their own right. MTV's five original VJs in 1981 were Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson and Martha Quinn. The VJs were hired to fit certain demographics ...
Ray was the first ever half-Korean VJ (he is also a quarter-Irish and a quarter-English) and was the first contest winner to stay longer than a year at MTV. The runner up, Shannon Wiseman of Dallas, North Carolina, became a co-host for UPN's Atlanta Tonight in 2004 and the host of NASCAR.COM's Post-Race Show in 2005.
MTV is celebrating its 40th anniversary on Aug. 1, and ET is revisiting the channel's biggest moments with two of its most beloved VJs.ET spoke with both Kurt Loder and SuChin Pak, who talked ...
MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel dedicated to music, music industry and history in the United States upon its founding in 1981. MTV Networks has since produced various original television shows, many of which concern genres unrelated to music.