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Fresh-faced young people hosted its programming and introduced videos. Many VJs became celebrities in their own right. 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 ...
MTV was launched on Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m, [6] [7] under the ownership of the Warner-American Express Satellite Entertainment Company. [4]On June 25, 1984, Warner Communications spun-off Nickelodeon, MTV into a new public corporation called MTV Networks.
Nina L. Diaz [55] - Diaz worked for MTV for 10 years, developing and launching My Super Sweet 16, MTV Cribs, and came up with idea for The Osbournes show on the set of Cribs. [56] [57] [58] She left MTV to work as an independent producer for various networks, and helped develop hits such as Mob Wives on VH1 and Real Housewives of New Jersey on ...
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 ...
After leaving MTV in 1986, Jackson went back to radio, working for KROQ and KEDG in L.A, and returned to KLOS, the station he hosted for in his pre-MTV days. From 1995 to 2002, he hosted The ...
It's one of pop culture's great questions: Why did MTV, a cable network literally called "Music Television," stop playing music? When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network ...
MTV's first day on the air was rebroadcast on VH1 Classic in 2006 and again in 2011 (the latter celebrating the channel's 30th anniversary). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first hour on the air was broadcast again on August 1, 2016, and was called MTV Hour One, as part of VH1 Classic's planned re-launch as MTV Classic, MTV itself, and additionally streamed on ...
MTV logo until 2010. On March 3, 1981, Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (now as "Paramount Media Networks") introduced MTV (Music Television), [6] the first 24/7 cable television network completely dedicated the broadcast of music videos. MTV was aimed to reach and profit from the young adult demographic.