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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.
Later VJs included Bobby Rivers, who joined in 1987, Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM (the current day FM rebroadcast of WFAN), a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1, Roger Rose - Actor and comedian (Ski Patrol), and Alison Steele ("The Nightbird" of WNEW-FM). Rosie O'Donnell later joined the outlet's VJ lineup.
VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group [broken anchor] subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.
VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown: October 28, 1994: November 28, 2015 Pop-Up Video: October 27, 1996: September 21, 2012 Crossroads [a] October 31, 1994: 1998 8-Track Flashback: September 23, 1995: February 15, 1998 VH1 Dance Machine: 1997: 1998 Emma: October 8, 1999: November 5, 1999 Insomniac Music Theater: 1999: 2005 Nocturnal State: August 2005 ...
In the '00s, Blackwood found a new home on SiriusXM Radio, where she became the host of '80s on 8 along with the other original VJs. Currently, she and her fellow VJs host The Big '80s Top 40 ...
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 the channel was trying to obtain: Goodman was the affable everyman; Hunter, the popular jock; Jackson, the hip radio veteran; Blackwood, the bombshell vixen; and Quinn, the girl next door.
VH1 Classic logo (2007-2016) Relaunched on August 1, 1999 as VH1 Classic Rock, the channel primarily featured a mainstream rock/adult hits-formatted mix of music videos and concert footage from the 1960s to the 1980s, though it originally included a wider range of genres and time periods. [6] The channel name was quickly changed to VH1 Classic ...
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.