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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.
Goodman left MTV in 1987, and he hosted the shows Fit TV and Illinois Instant Riches in the '90s. He also worked for a variety of different radio stations throughout the decade, including the ...
Nina: MTV’s thinking always was, they didn't want any of the VJs to be bigger than the channel. Alan: I believed in the evolution. I think the evolution was good and right. And I would have done ...
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.
Following his departure from TRL, Camp parlayed his MTV fame into a rock career with his 1999 debut album Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz on the Hollywood Records label. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo ( Green Day , Kid Rock ) and Julian Raymond ( Cheap Trick , Glen Campbell ), and specialized in the 1980s-style glam metal that fell out of ...
The company's decision to lay off MTV staff and close the news unit comes amid heavy financial pressures on MTV's parent company, which reported last week that it had a net loss of $1.1 billion in ...
Quinn joins the other surviving original MTV VJs in hosting programs for The 80s on 8 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm). On the September 22, 2005 episode of Comedy Central 's new series The Showbiz Show with David Spade , Quinn appeared as herself in mock archival footage (dating back to 1983) from her MTV days.
Several months later the future MTV founders patronized the club, interviewed her, and took notes. She told them she was a VJ, the term she invented with a staff member to put on her first pay slip. [ citation needed ] Her video jockey memoirs list the live music she documented during her VJ breaks. [ 3 ]