Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn, four of MTV’s original VJs, have kept in touch over the years and are now sharing their stories in a new book, “VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave.” They talk to TODAY’s Matt
80s on 8 MTV VJs The date: August 1, 1981. The time: 12:01 a.m. The words: “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” And with a montage of the first space shuttle launch rolling in the background, the cable network MTV was born. MTV has evolved over the past 35 y...
Over the years, MTV would cycle through many different VJs before deprioritizing music video programming altogether — much to the chagrin of anyone who grew up with MTV in its earlier days. But those original VJs —Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. JacksonandMartha Quinn— rem...