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30 unusual facts about MTV


Arioch

Arioch is also the name of an escape artist and magician who rose to fame in the 1990s after performing on MTV.

Catupecu Machu

After this trip, MTV produced the “Diary of Catupecu Machu," showed in different countries across Latin America.

" This same show was transmitted several times on MTV and live via the Rock & Pop radio station.

Chris Rado

• Chris also revved up the MTV Special: Life in the Fast Lane- documenting the wild lifestyle and heavy foot of Pro Drag Racer Chris Rado.

Distorted Lullabies

The single "Sometimes" found moderate success with MTV and many modern rock radio stations.

Don Tetto

This new single occupied the top spots on Hispanic networks HTV and MTV.

Firin' Squad

Recent international gigs have included Dubai, New York, Russia, Ukraine, MTV Block Parties in Lithuania, and through Summer 2008 they hit the holiday hotspots of Ibiza and Ayia Napa.

Fliper

Fliper became more popular in 2002 when they released their debut album Wypas and MTV Polska, VIVA Polska and other music TV stations begun to air Fliper’s first videoclip “Kocham Cię i Kocham”, which was also the first single promoting the album.

From Safety To Where

Propelled by the appearance of its ethereal instrumental, "Monument" (from Irreversible Trend) on MTV's The Real World and several tours of the East Coast and Midwest in 2002, the band recorded its final album, Interference, over the course of the next two years.

Gipsy.cz

Their music has recently hit the charts there and they are gaining a following throughout Europe, featuring on MTV.

Hastang

The band’s first big break came in May 2005 when they made it to the finals of the MTV Hits Cebu band showdown held at the SM City Cebu Parking Lot.

Hughes/Thrall

It was released as a single and a promotional video was shot, which received heavy rotation on MTV.

In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns

"Into the Ashes" had its television premiere on MTV's Headbangers Ball on December 6, 2008, although the video was posted online prior to this.

Louis Falco

After the explosive success of the film, he began a career in commercial choreography including music videos for a number of MTV artists.

Maanam

In 1988, Maanam's "Sie ściemnia" became the first Polish music video to air on the international MTV.

MTV-82

Nizhny Novgorod tram & trolley museum has a third operable MTV-82 in its tramcar collection.

MTV's The 70s House

During the "To Tell the Truth" elimination segment, actor Christopher Atkins was brought in as a 1970s star and stated that The Blue Lagoon was released in 1979.

Patashnik

A music video made for the track "The Shield" was often played on MTV's Chill Out Zone show.

Planet P Project

Music videos for singles from the first albums received moderate airplay on MTV, when originally released.

Pro Wrestling USA

Despite this move being unsuccessful, McMahon was also able to air the historic "War to Settle the Score" and "Brawl to End it All" wrestling cards on MTV; in addition, McMahon also still had the most recognized wrestler in the industry, Hulk Hogan.

Ryan Sakoda

Sakoda returned to UPW in March 2005 as a full-time trainer and made his return to full time in-ring competition in 2007 with MTV's Wrestling Society X.

Sinergia

After a recess, was consolidated with the current band, releasing his album 2001 Sinergia, with which they reach to be recognized as an innovative band, both in letter and in his music with songs and their music as "strong woman", "Competition" or "Chile Robot", which even come to the broadcaster MTV.

Synchro Nine Factor

Snippets of songs from the band’s 1999 debut CD Right Wing Conspiracy have appeared on MTV’s Making the Video and elsewhere.

T. L. Hanna High School

MTV came to T.L. Hanna High School in September 2007 to cast for "Made", a reality-show featuring the makeovers of high school students.

Taxxi

The band formed in the late 1970s and first came to prominence in the early 1980s with a few minor AOR hit singles and some MTV airplay.

Templebeat

"Einstein On The Beach" a track from "Wargasm" - became a video clip that got heavy rotation on Videomusic and 3 appearances on MTV's 120 Minutes.

Texas Is the Reason

Produced by Jawbox's J.Robbins and released on Revelation Records, Do You Know Who You Are? brought a lot of major-label courtship to Texas Is the Reason, who were being hailed as the "next big thing" in the growing punk explosion on MTV.

The Holiday Plan

The band were featured on MTV's documentary on upcoming bands, Breaking Point, where MTV followed The Holiday Plan, as well as other bands, around as they went around touring, among other rock band duties.

The Motor City Machine Guns

In 2008, the team appeared in an episode of the MTV series Made, teaching a school boy the basics of professional wrestling.

Toenut

CMJ charts, MTV spins, international exposure, and a spattering of singles followed.


100% Pure Love

The music video directed by Marcus Nispel and choreographed by Michael K. Williams (who later went on to star as Omar Little on The Wire) was nominated for Best Dance Video on The 1994 MTV Video Music Awards

Acura Legend

On an episode of MTV's reality show Cribs, hip-hop artist Ludacris owns a 1993 Acura Legend sedan, which he calls his favorite car.

Adam Hauck

Adam quickly found work as a writer and producer on the nightly FX talk show, "The X Show", then later worked on Comedy Central's "Beat the Geeks", and several reality TV shows, including MTV's "Road Rules" and NBC's "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?"

Adobe Premiere Express

Later, MTV acquired Express on their website as a way of remixing music videos for contests, games, or for fun.

Alive from Off Center

Notable episodes included "As Seen on TV," starring comic actor Bill Irwin as an auditioning dancer who becomes trapped in a television, wandering among daytime dramas, MTV, and PBS's own Sesame Street and the atmospheric puppet melodrama "Street of Crocodiles," adapted by the Brothers Quay from the Bruno Shultz story.

Anthony Sperduti

Trained as an art director, he has worked as creative director at advertising agencies Wieden & Kennedy (Portland, New York, and London offices), TBWA\Chiat\Day, Modernista and with brands like Nike, The Gap, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, ESPN, MTV, Volvo, and Heineken.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Bill Flanagan

He has also worked on VH1's Legends, VH1 Archives, Hotel MTV, and many other series and specials.

Dennis Berry

Although he died in 1994, his work continues to be used worldwide, frequently as incidental music in television, most recently in BBC's Little Britain and Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoons Rocko's Modern Life and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Dexter Romweber

The band was also featured around this time on MTV's The Cutting Edge directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (who later went on to direct Little Miss Sunshine).

François-Eudes Chanfrault

His soundtrack and score for the 2008 film Donkey Punch, which was directed by Olly Blackburn, was praised by film critic Kurt Loder in a review for MTV.com and was also received favorably in a review of the film in Libération.

I'm the Answer

The song and single "I'm the Answer" features Pete Townshend singing backing vocals, There were a couple of singles lifted from the album "So Real" and "I'm the Answer" both got little Album-oriented rock radio play the track "I'm the Answer" was the only song to feature a music video, the music video was played on MTV and Simon Townshend was Interviewed with Pete Townshend about the album of which MTV wrongly said the artist of the song was "Peter Townshend".

Inside the Hollow

Its music video premiered on Yahoo!'s LAUNCHcast on 5 July 2006, and has been featured on MTV's Making the Video.

Jasmine Dotiwala

Following her stint at The Word, Dotiwala moved to MTV Europe where she was a presenter for MTV News, before becoming Senior Producer-Director for many of MTV International’s flagship TV shows including ‘Making the Video’, ‘MTV Cribs’, ‘MTV’s Diary Of’ and ‘MTV News Specials’.

Jason Hirschhorn

After MTV, he transitioned to the president of Sling Media's Entertainment Group, where he led the introduction of Sling’s video anywhere device.

Jim Shearer

Since 2009 Shearer has been the host for VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown. He has also hosted the shows Advance Warning, 120 Minutes,Subterranean, Video Mods, Summer Gig, as well as other shows on both MTV and MTV2.

Johanna Klum

Johanna was a member of the German girl band Samajona until 2002, after which she became the presenter of Total Request Live on MTV.

John Beck Hofmann

He has also created music used in multiple television shows, such as FX's "Nip/Tuck", MTV's "The Real World", Travel Channel's "Eye of the Beholder" and multiple NASA documentaries.

Joshua Caldwell

In addition to winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Film on Campus in 2006, The Beautiful Lie, starring Michaela McManus, was also an official selection at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the One Reel Film Festival and the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (where it won the Classic Beauty Prize).

Julian T. Pinder

Apart from producing television and directing feature documentaries, his extensive work in various film genres also includes directing commercial spots, MTV's Rock the Vote campaign pieces, music videos starring actress Amanda Seyfried, and experimental art-house documentary shorts in Bosnia and wartime Kosovo.

Kara Saun

After Project Runway, Saun was costume designer for the hit WB series What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth, designed for the America’s Next Top Model Campaign 5 advertisement, and designed costumes for various TV series and pilots, such as UPN’s R U the Girl, the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly and MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar.

Kerosene Hat

Contributing to the song's success was a noir-ish, black-and-white video shot by director Carlos Grasso, which was added to MTV's Buzz Bin.

Last 2 Walk

One of the reasons why the album was pushed back so many times is because of their reality TV show on MTV Adventures in Hollyhood.

Lo Bosworth

After the success of Laguna Beach, MTV developed The Hills, a spin-off series documenting the lives of Conrad and her friends (Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, and Whitney Port) in Los Angeles, California.

Mack Maine

In 2003, he placed 16th out of a thousand contestants in a freestyle battle hosted by MTV; this, combined with a backstage performance at the 2004 BET Awards with Cassidy,led him to becoming a founding member of Young Money Entertainment with Lil Wayne in 2005.

Mia Carruthers

Mia Carruthers (born March 30, 1991) is one of the main cast members of MTV's Taking the Stage.

MTV Brasil

Cuca Lazarotto, who introduced the first music video aired on MTV Brasil, also introduced the last music video, "Maracatu Atômico" by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi.

Nino Alejandro

His second cd "Nocturnal" spawned "Why", his first top ten hit(#2), and his most recent solo effort, simply titled "NINO", introduced him to the rest of the world via MTV and MYX, with his music videos for the singles "I Still Love You" and "Alaala", both directed by top photographer Xander Angeles.

Over Now

The performance from MTV Unplugged can also be found on the box set Music Bank, the home video release Music Bank: The Videos, and the compilation album The Essential Alice in Chains.

Post-classical editing

Director Lawrence Kasdan states in the documentary titled The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, that the generation of people who grew up on MTV and 30 second commercials can process information faster, and therefore demand it.

Prudence Fenton

She was executive Producer and Story Editor for the award winning MTV series Liquid Television and with this series brought Beavis and Butt-head to MTV.

Randal Malone

At an ensuing autograph show for Sunset After Dark Malone was discovered by producers from MTV who cast him opposite Carmen Electra on MTVs 1990s quirky hit show Singled Out.

Reshawn Davis

Reshawn "Bam Bam" Davis(born January 26, 1972) is a professional bodyguard, but is best known for his role on MTV's Rob & Big, which followed him and his co-star/best friend Christopher Boykin.

Road Rules: South Pacific

Road Rules: South Pacific is the twelfth season of MTV's reality show Road Rules that takes place in the South Pacific.

Road Rules: X-Treme

Road Rules: X-Treme is the 13th season of the MTV reality television series, Road Rules, which takes a group of young people and places them on a series of quests and challenges to compete for prizes.

Sam Kieth

In 1995, The Maxx was adapted as part of MTV's short-lived animation series MTV's Oddities, which also included Eric Fogel's The Head.

Shane Theriot

He has performed with many influential musicians, authored guitar instruction books and DVDs, and composed and produced music for MTV and ESPN, among others.

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

The video was the 25th video to be played on MTV's launch date on August 1st 1981.

Sun Electric

Sun Electric have worked with graphic artist and videographer Nick Philip; "Meccano", created for MTV's Amp, was the first video played on that show.

Telestream

Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

Waverly Films

Their members' portfolios include films commissioned for MTV, VH1, Channel 102, McDonald's, Heinz Ketchup and bands such as The Rapture, Fatboy Slim, LCD Soundsystem, Death Cab For Cutie, and TV on the Radio.

When Animated Animals Attack

It is now extremely hard to acquire, but aired originally to shocked, delighted reactions on MTV's now legendary adult block Cartoon Sushi, which was created by Afro Samurai producer Eric Calderon in the 1990s when he was Director of Development at MTV Animation.

Whip-Smart

Phair was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone on the week Whip-Smart was released, and by 1994 and 1995, she made a frequent number of television appearances, including the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and MTV's 120 Minutes.

WKZL

The popularity of many of the new artists that were played on "New Generation," the introduction of MTV, and the dedication of record and radio professionals who recognized the value of these new artists, prompted WKZL to open its format a bit and bring new artists such as X, the English Beat, the Psychedelic Furs, Berlin, Gary Numan, Wall of Voodoo, Duran Duran, U2, and R.E.M., into regular rotation.

World Entertainment News Network

It began as the World Rock News Network (WRNN) and the company soon established a niche for itself, providing music news to subscribers including MTV, BBC, ABC and Russia's daily youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Yin Chang

Some of her other works include several national commercials such as Time Warner, Verizon Wireless, MasterCard, Best Buy, MTV, and Mead School Supplies.

Zendeko

Motion picture and television credits include The Tonight Show with rock band, Korn, MTV VMA's, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Ellen DeGeneres Show with Kanye West, and an appearance in Sony Pictures motion picture Charlie's Angels (film).