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Adam Curry in 1984. Curry was born in Arlington, Virginia, but lived in Amstelveen, Netherlands, from 1972 to 1987.After a time working in Dutch pirate radio at Radio Picasso in Amstelveen and Radio Decibel [] in Amsterdam in the early 1980s under the pseudonym "John Holden", he got a break in broadcasting as the host of the Dutch weekly pop-music television program Countdown, and the English ...
In doing so, MTV expanded the format and added more live interviews with bands. At its premiere it was hosted briefly by Kevin Seal, then by VJ Adam Curry, before ultimately settling on Riki Rachtman, who to many viewers became the most identifiable host of the show. [2]
The Daily Source Code (DSC) was a podcast by Adam Curry, known as the "Podfather", often considered a pioneer of podcasting. [1] [2] Curry talked about his everyday life and events in the podcasting scene or the news in general, as well as playing music from the Podsafe Music Network and promotions for other podcasts.
Dial MTV is a daily music video countdown program on MTV, with videos determined by viewers calling a 1-800 telephone number. [1] It premiered on February 17, 1986 and ran until June 1991. Much like Total Request Live , Dial MTV played the most requested videos of the day, as requested by viewers who dialed in (hence, the name) to vote for ...
Rachtman made appearances for MTV's heavy metal show Headbangers Ball in 1989 as a fill-in host and guest VJ, while Adam Curry was the show's main host. [7] [8] His friend at the time, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, had flown with Rachtman to New York City for an audition at MTV Studios. [9]
Sweet and perky Martha Quinn went straight from recent NYU graduate to MTV VJ, landing the job through a connection she’d made while wrapping up an internship at the radio station WNBC. She left ...
In the late 1980s, before the Internet, MTV VJ Adam Curry began experimenting online. In the 90's, he registered the then-unclaimed domain name "MTV.com" in 1993 with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Internet. Although this move was sanctioned by his supervisors at MTV Networks at the time, when Curry left to start his own ...
Project Healthy Minds, a millennial/Gen Z-driven mental health tech non-profit, has tapped Jody Gerson, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), to join the organization’s ...