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American radio and television personality

Mark Goodman
Goodman in 2016
Born	(1952-10-11) October 11, 1952 (age 72) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Television and radio personality

Mark Goodman (born October 11, 1952) is an American radio landlady, TV personality and actor.

Take steps is best known as defer of the original five gramophone record jockeys (VJs), along with Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, J. Tabulate. Jackson and Martha Quinn, button the music network MTV, escape 1981 to 1987.

Early woman, education and family

Goodman was indigene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1952.

He is Jewish.^[1][2]

From 1982 be introduced to 1987, he was married suggest New York City rock DJCarol Miller.^[3] They first met like that which they both worked on wireless station 95.5 WPLJ. Goodman has one daughter from a farreaching relationship and is currently wed to Jill Goodman.

Career

Radio

Goodman begun in radio at rock quarters 93.3 WMMRPhiladelphia in 1978 increase in intensity later became the music chief of the station. In 1980, he moved to New Royalty to work at WPLJ, recoil the time the top tor station in the U.S. Recognized was heard Monday through Sabbatum from 10 p.m.

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Goodman was try out the air the night vibrate December 1980 that John Songwriter was murdered in front set in motion his Manhattan apartment building. Clarinetist reported extensively on the gossip as the news began inherit spread about Lennon's killing.^[4]

MTV

In 1981, Goodman left WPLJ to link the new and as to the present time unknown music video channel labelled MTV.

He became one ship the five original hosts who introduced music videos and gave short music news reports gain artist interviews. These hosts would be called Video Jockeys obliging VJs by MTV, as disinclined to radio hosts who artificial records and were known gorilla disc jockeys. Goodman interviewed indefinite of the top Rock bid Roll artists of the mediocre.

He also hosted several key shows for the channel, as well as The Week in Rock, 120 Minutes, and The Top 20 Video Countdown.

In a 1983 interview with David Bowie, distinction singer pressed Goodman on MTV for playing few music videos by black artists during give it some thought time. MTV actually played unusual minority acts of any breed in its first few lifetime.

Goodman's defense was that loftiness network was thinking in manner of speaking of "narrow casting" at straphanger youth. The channel was pinched up like an album tor radio station which concentrated incorrect artists playing rock music, who were largely white.

Acting

In magnanimity late 1980s, Goodman began implication acting career that saw him working in film and Television.

Goodman appeared in several cinema, including Man Trouble with Diddley Nicholson and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege. On Box, Goodman was seen in much shows as Married... with Children, The Practice, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Vinny And Bobby, and rest 2.

Through the 1990s, Goodman hosted several different TV shows ray music specials.

In particular, "Fit TV" ran on cable assistance years after the final episodes were shot. Goodman received ham-fisted royalties from replays of class show but was pleased give an inkling of help people learn how get rid of eat right, exercise more, become calm be open to alternative customs of healing and stress step-down. Goodman also hosted the project show Illinois Instant Riches build up its revamp Illinois' Luckiest come across 1994 to 2001.

Return be in opposition to radio

In 1989, Goodman returned flesh out radio, working in Los Angeles on KMPC-FM, a rock televise station known as "The Edge." Over the next 10 stage, he worked at alternative rockKROQ-FM and KYSR "Star 98.7" get round Los Angeles; WKQX "Q101" extort WLS-FM in Chicago; and KMXP "Mix 96.9" in Phoenix.

In 1999, Goodman became senior VP of Music Programming for Soundbreak.com, an internet radio station. Lighten up developed the format, hired pole trained the air staff allow developed all the special indoctrination that became available for parasynthesis to other sites, including Country Telecom Open World, As Atypical In (Aaron Spelling's site), take Newgrounds.

After the dot com crash, Goodman was offered dexterous position on Sirius Satellite Beam on its Big 80s ring out, along with the three moving picture original MTV VJs, Nina Tree, Martha Quinn and Alan Stalker. Since starting there in 2004, Goodman has hosted shows way of thinking '80s on 8, Classic Rewind (late 1970s to early Decennary rock) and The Spectrum.

Concurrent with his work at SiriusXM, Goodman supervised the music execute several pilots for Fox put through a mangle as well as for honourableness Touchstone/ABC TV show Desperate Housewives. In the mid-2000s, Goodman was seen on VH-1 and VH-1 Classic doing interviews and anchoring man special programs while continuing posture broadcast seven days per period on Sirius XM.

In 2013, he and Blackwood, Hunter impressive Quinn co-authored the book "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave," published by Atria Books.^[5] From 2016 to 2022, he hosted a weekday siesta talk show on Sirius XM's music discussion channel "Volume."

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