Video makes the Radio Star
“Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll!”
Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Nina Blackwood, along with Martha Quinn and the late J.J. Jackson, were the five original faces and voices of MTV when it debuted on August 1, 1981. 25 years later, Goodman, Hunter, Blackwood and Quinn are together again spinning their favorite decades hits and sharing pop culture history on SIRIUS.
The Big 80s crew will recall how MTV made the VJ and the music video into a pop culture phenomenon, in a two hour special will air Tuesday August 1st at 10am ET on the Big 80s.
The four will share their memories of MTV’s launch and play songs from the videos the then-new cable channel aired during its first few hours of existence. Said Mark Goodman, “We all knew we were part of something really cool, really fun. I never imagined that we were part of something that would change pop culture forever.”