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Returning MTV executive Van Toffler has dreamed up a week of all-music programming for three MTV channels during the week ...
While time loop horror isn’t novel, the choice allows “Until Dawn” to escape merely replicating the original game while also ...
Charli D'Amelio shares an exclusive glimpse at her Tony Awards 2025 look. Read more about why she chose her timeless Zuhair Murad ballgown, here.
Another memorable moment came in 1985, when Wolf, then a solo artist, was invited to record a duet with Aretha Franklin and producer Narada Michael Walden. The track, “Push,” would ultimately ...
The '80s witnessed Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson, Martha Quinn, and Alan Hunter pioneer the early days of MTV, and as the decades unfolded, new generations of VJs left their ...
MTV VJs Alan Hunter (left) and Nina Blackwood (second right) as they pose with members of the fictional band Spinal Tap at MTV Studios in 1984.
Left: 1981; Right: 2013 Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images; Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic/Getty Images. Nina Blackwood originally studied acting but found her calling as an MTV VJ — a job she got ...
Nina Blackwood originally studied acting but found her calling as an MTV VJ — a job she got when she responded to an ad for the then-new channel in Billboard magazine. She stayed with the ...
Original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood is 72. Actor Rachel Ward is 67. Actor Amy Yasbeck is 62. Bassist Norwood Fisher of Fishbone is 59. Actor Darren E. Burrows is 58.
Nina Blackwood is delivering some Motley Crue news ahead of introducing Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” It feels like 1985. It’s 2023. And Blackwood isn’t on MTV ...
Original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood is 71. Actor Rachel Ward is 66. Actor Amy Yasbeck (“Wings,” ″Life on a Stick”) is 61. Bassist Norwood Fisher of Fishbone is 58.
Martha Quinn and Nina Blackwood were two of MTV's original VJs. They helped revolutionize the industry by making music videos a new preferred choice of music consumption for much of the 1980s and ...