1. Mark Goodman was born on October 11,1952 and is an American radio host, TV personality and actor.
16 Facts About Mark Goodman
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Mark Goodman is best known as one of the original five video jockeys, along with Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, JJ Jackson and Martha Quinn, on the music network MTV, from 1981 to 1987.
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Mark Goodman started in radio at rock station 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia in 1978 and later became the music director of the station.
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Mark Goodman was on the air the night in December 1980 that John Lennon was murdered in front of his Manhattan apartment building.
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Mark Goodman reported extensively on the events as the news began to spread about Lennon's killing.
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In 1981, Mark Goodman left WPLJ to join the new and as yet unknown music video channel named MTV.
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Mark Goodman became one of the five original hosts who introduced music videos and gave short music news reports and artist interviews.
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Mark Goodman interviewed many of the top Rock and Roll artists of the day.
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Mark Goodman hosted several special shows for the channel, including The Week in Rock, 120 Minutes, and The Top 20 Video Countdown.
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Mark Goodman's defense was that the network was thinking in terms of "narrow casting" at suburban youth.
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Mark Goodman appeared in several films, including Man Trouble with Jack Nicholson and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.
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Mark Goodman received no royalties from replays of the show but was pleased to help people learn how to eat right, exercise more, and be open to alternative methods of healing and stress reduction.
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Mark Goodman hosted the game show Illinois Instant Riches and its revamp Illinois' Luckiest from 1994 to 2001.
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In 1999, Mark Goodman became senior VP of Music Programming for Soundbreak.
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Mark Goodman developed the format, hired and trained the air staff and developed all the special programming that became available for syndication to other sites, including British Telecom Open World, As Seen In, and Newgrounds.
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Since starting there in 2004, Mark Goodman has hosted shows on '80s on 8, Classic Rewind and The Spectrum.