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This is a list of people who have been video jockeys on the music channel MTV.. Originally hired to represent a wide array of musical tastes and personal ethnicities, VJs eventually became famous in their own right.
From 28 February to 31 March 2020, MTV 80s was broadcast for one month as a themed alternative to its host channel, MTV Classic UK, but was not planned as a full-time replacement. From 30 June 2020, until 5 October 2020, VH1 Classic Europe broadcast a block of MTV 80s programming from midnight until midday as a test bed for what would ...
Quinn was also featured in a 2007 computer game, The '80s Game With Martha Quinn, and hosted a public television show, The 80's (My Music), in 2017. These days, Quinn can be heard as the host of ...
Blackwood formerly hosted a weekday show on Sirius XM Radio The 80s on 8 from 11 to 2 Eastern. On weekends, she continues to co-host the Sirius XM Radio show The Big '80s Top 40 Countdown with other original MTV VJ's. She performed as part of the 2003 road company of The Vagina Monologues. [8] [9]
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.
Mark Goodman (born October 11, 1952) is an American radio host, TV personality and actor. He is best known as one of the original five video jockeys (VJs), along with Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson and Martha Quinn, on the music network MTV, from 1981 to 1987.
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
He was part of a Verizon Wireless national radio campaign for three years and since 2004 has been on Sirius XM radio's '80s on 8 channel, along with two other surviving original MTV VJs. In 2013, he and Blackwood, Goodman and Quinn co-authored the book "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave," published by Atria Books. [1]