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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 ...
MTV also helped invent a brand-new on-air gig: the video jockey, a.k.a. VJ, with five young, charismatic hosts who introduced videos and interviewed artists. Over the years, MTV would cycle ...
MTV in its ‘80s heyday was kind of like the epicenter of all things entertainment in a way — people would just drop by, like Andy Warhol with Simon and Nick from Duran Duran.
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.
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]
As a VJ, Jackson hosted the long-awaited and much anticipated "unmasking" of KISS. He was one of the few African Americans to DJ an "album rock" radio station. After five years at MTV, Jackson returned to Los Angeles radio, JJ's first gig after MTV was 106 KWST then at KROQ-FM in 1987, then as program director of modern rock/alternative station ...
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 .