Since 2004, he’s been at Sirius XM Radio, working on channels like The 80s on 8, The Spectrum and Classic Rewind. Since quitting his VJ role in August 1987, Goodman has consistently worked in the music industry, with tenures at KROQ,, VH1 Classic - and even working as the music supervisor for the TV drama Desperate Housewives. This is something completely different,” Goodman described. Soon the teleprompter scripts were thrown away to give the network a more rock and roll feel, giving the VJs the freedom to ad lib. “We’re a lot like your favorite radio station, but you’ll see your favorite music,” he said in an early MTV segment, seen on the Biography special. Mark Goodman was already an experienced radio DJ when he landed the MTV VJ job after two auditions - including one where he mock interviewed a staffer standing in an “obnoxious Billy Joel,” he told Gothamist. Mark Goodman in 1982, Goodman in 2013 Photos: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic Jackson sadly died in 2004, but even at his death, he had been making plans to reunite with his fellow original VJs on Sirius XM Radio, where the remaining four worked together on its 80s radio station. While most of their tenures lasted about five to seven years, the group has stuck together throughout the decades, writing a 2013 book together called VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave, and appearing at events, like at the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in 2019.
Despite some early glitches - and having to cross the Hudson River since New York City didn’t carry the stations - MTV music television was launched, changing the entire face of the music industry and pop culture, as detailed in the special Biography: I Want My MTV, airing September 8 at 9/8c on A&E.Īppropriately, the first music video to air was The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” - introducing an entirely new concept of television, hosted by the first group of MTV video jockeys, also known as VJs: Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, J.J. Huddled in a Fort Lee, New Jersey, bar on August 1, 1981, the team behind a new television network watched anxiously as their project hit the airwaves.
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