Mark Goodman
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Occupation(s) | Television and radio personality |
Mark Goodman (born October 11, 1952) is an American radio host, TV personality and actor. He is best known as one of the original five
Early life, education and family
Goodman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1952. He is Jewish.[1][2]
From 1982 to 1987, he was married to New York City rock DJ Carol Miller.[3] They first met when they both worked on radio station 95.5 WPLJ. Goodman has one daughter from a subsequent relationship and is currently married to Jill Goodman.
Career
Radio
Goodman started in radio at rock station 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia in 1978 and later became the music director of the station. In 1980, he moved to New York to work at WPLJ, at the time the top rock station in the U.S. He was heard Monday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Goodman was on the air the night in December 1980 that John Lennon was murdered in front of his Manhattan apartment building. Goodman reported extensively on the events as the news began to spread about Lennon's killing.[4]
MTV
In 1981, Goodman left WPLJ to join the new and as yet unknown music video channel named MTV. He became one of the five original hosts who introduced music videos and gave short music news reports and artist interviews. These hosts would be called Video Jockeys or VJs by MTV, as opposed to radio hosts who played records and were known as disc jockeys. Goodman interviewed many of the top Rock and Roll artists of the day. He also hosted several special shows for the channel, including The Week in Rock, 120 Minutes, and The Top 20 Video Countdown.
In a 1983 interview with
Acting
In the late 1980s, Goodman began an acting career that saw him working in film and TV. Goodman appeared in several films, including Man Trouble with Jack Nicholson and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege. On TV, Goodman was seen in such shows as Married... with Children, The Practice, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Vinny And Bobby, and others.
Through the 1990s, Goodman hosted several different TV shows and music specials. In particular, "Fit TV" ran on cable for years after the final episodes were shot. 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. Goodman also hosted the game show Illinois Instant Riches and its revamp Illinois' Luckiest from 1994 to 2001.
Return to radio
In 1989, Goodman returned to radio, working in
.In 1999, Goodman became senior VP of Music Programming for Soundbreak.com, an internet radio station. He developed the format, hired and trained the air staff and developed all the special programming that became available for syndication to other sites, including
After the
Concurrent with his work at
In 2013, he and Blackwood, Hunter and Quinn co-authored the book "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave," published by
References
- ^ "After midnight, the (Jewish) stars come out" The Jewish Standard TimesofIsrael.com. Published December 5, 2014. Accessed January 12, 2016.
- ^ MTV's first five VJs get 'unplugged' in new tell-all Today.com. Published May 6, 2014. Accessed January 12, 2015.
- ISBN 9780061845246.
- ^ John Lennon December 8 1980 - NY Radio AS IT HAPPENED!, retrieved August 3, 2022
- ISBN 9781451678123.