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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. Initially, they were nothing more than on-air personalities, but as the popularity of MTV grew, they began to branch out past just ...
In 1980, he had a role in the music video for David Bowie’s “Fashion” a year before MTV launched. After a chance meeting with MTV’s CEO, he became a VJ, and stayed with the channel until 1987.
The latest videos by Eminem, Nelly, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, and Eve began to be shown in VH1's rotation and even started to cut up on VH1's top 20 countdown. [ citation needed ] VH1 also plays music from Latin artists such as Ricky Martin , Marc Anthony , Enrique Iglesias , Thalía , and Shakira .
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 ...
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 ...
Music Television popularized the term in the 1980s (see List of MTV VJs). The MTV founders got their idea for their VJ host personalities from studying Merrill Aldighieri's club. [ 1 ] Aldighieri worked in the New York City nightclub Hurrah, which was the first to make a video installation as a prominent featured component of the club's design ...
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.
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.