In an interview, Quinn, now 65, remembered ... and most experienced of the original MTV VJs, having started his radio career at Boston’s WBCN in the ’60s. He then moved to the L.A. station ...

On Aug. 1, 1981, a cable network called MTV started appearing on television sets...well, not everywhere, because households weren't as digitally plugged in as they are now. But whomever was ...

Another member of the OG VJ crew, gravelly-voiced Nina Blackwood first appeared on MTV in 1981. In VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, the MTV veteran reminisced about her and her co ...

The early days of MTV were such ... few old clips of the original VJs doing their thing and it brought back a lot that I had forgotten about the style of the network back then.

As one of the five original VJs who launched MTV into the ... and a big RV traveling behind us. It was total MTV ‘Road Rules’ craziness.” Then there came longer-form specialty music ...

For a long time, the VJs ... then migrated to the U.S. She became a topic of national news in 2019 when she experienced a racist rant from a white man. For most people, Mike Kasem was the original ...