Mark Goodman Biography
Mark Goodman is an American radio broadcaster, television personality, and actor best known as one of the original five video jockeys (VJs) on the music network MTV, alongside Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson, and Martha Quinn, between 1981 and 1987.
How old is Mark Goodman? – Age
He is 71 year old as of October 11, 2023. He was born in 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Mark Goodman Wife – Daughter
From 1982 to 1987, he was married to Carol Miller, a New York City rock DJ. They originally met while working at radio station 95.5 WPLJ. Goodman has a daughter from a subsequent relationship and is currently married to Jill Goodman.
Mark Goodman Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Mark Goodman MTV
Goodman left WPLJ in 1981 to join MTV, a then-unknown music video station. He became one of the five initial hosts, introducing music videos and providing brief music news updates and artist interviews. MTV would refer to these hosts as Video Jockeys (VJs), as opposed to radio hosts who played records and were known as disc jockeys. Goodman conducted interviews with several of today’s leading rock & roll artists. He also presented various special series on the channel, such as The Week in Rock, 120 Minutes, and The Top 20 Video Countdown.
In a 1983 interview with David Bowie, the singer chastised Goodman on MTV for airing few music videos by black musicians at the time. In its early years, MTV featured very few minority acts in any genre. Goodman argued that the network was thinking toward “narrow casting” suburban adolescents. The channel was built up like an album rock radio station, with a focus on predominantly white rock musicians.
Mark Goodman Radio
Goodman began his radio career in 1978 at rock station 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, where he eventually rose to the position of music director. In 1980, he relocated to New York to work at WPLJ, the top rock station in the United States. He was heard Monday through Saturday between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Goodman was on air the night in December 1980 when John Lennon was assassinated in front of his Manhattan apartment building. Goodman reported extensively on the events as the news began to spread about John Lennon’s killing.
Mark Goodman Career
In the last part of the 1980s, Goodman started an acting vocation that saw him working in film and television. Goodman showed up in a few movies, incorporating Man Issue with Jack Nicholson and Police Foundation 6: City Under Attack. On television, Goodman was considered in such demonstrates to be Hitched… with Youngsters, The Training, Lois and Clark: The New Experiences of Superman, Vinny And Bobby, and others.
Through the 1990s, Goodman facilitated a few different Programs and music specials. Specifically, “Fit television” ran on link for quite a long time after the last episodes were shot. Goodman got no sovereignties from replays of the show yet was satisfied to assist individuals with figuring out how to eat right, practice more, and be available to elective techniques for recuperating and stress decrease. Goodman additionally facilitated the game show Illinois Moment Wealth and its redo Illinois’ Most fortunate from 1994 to 2001.
In 1989, Goodman got back to radio, working in Los Angeles on KMPC-FM, a stone radio broadcast known as “The Edge.” Throughout the following 10 years, he worked at elective stone KROQ-FM and KYSR “Star 98.7” in Los Angeles; WKQX “Q101” and WLS-FM in Chicago; and KMXP “Blend 96.9” in Phoenix.
In 1999, Goodman became senior VP of Music Programming for Soundbreak.com, a web radio broadcast. He fostered the arrangement, recruited and prepared the air staff and fostered all the extraordinary programming that opened up for partnership to different destinations, including English Telecom Open World, As Found In (Aaron Spelling’s site), and Newgrounds.
After the website crash, Goodman was offered a situation on Sirius Satellite Radio on its Huge 80s station, alongside the three living unique MTV VJs, Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn and Alan Tracker. Since beginning there in 2004, Goodman has facilitated shows on ’80s on 8, Exemplary Rewind (late 1970s to mid 1990s rock) and The Range.
Simultaneous with his work at SiriusXM, Goodman managed the music for a few pilots for Fox TV as well concerning the Standard/ABC Program Frantic Housewives. During the 2000s, Goodman was seen on VH-1 and VH-1 Exemplary doing interviews and facilitating unique projects while proceeding to communicate seven days out of each week on Sirius XM.
In 2013, he and Blackwood, Tracker and Quinn co-wrote the book “VJ: The Turned off Undertakings of MTV’s Most memorable Wave,” distributed by Atria Books. From 2016 to 2022, he facilitated a work day evening syndicated program on Sirius XM’s music conversation channel “Volume.”