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21 unusual facts about MTV


Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005

At the time, the FCC Chairman Michael Powell said MTV and the CBS network's more than 200 affiliates and company-owned stations could be fined $27,500 a piece.

Buzz Potamkin

He was known for founding Perpetual Motion Pictures (later called Buzzco Associates) in 1968, which led to the production of hundreds of TV advertisements, including the Hawaiian Punch series, MTV's "Top of the Hour" (the moon man), and MTV's "I Want My MTV" campaign.

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.

Don Tetto

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

Electric Café

Earlier, MTV Europe had already included elements from the original song and the video in the title graphics for MTV's Greatest Hits.

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.

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.

Heartland Wrestling Association

The HWA was once featured in an episode of MTV's True Life in the episode "True Life: I'm A Professional Wrestler".

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.

Intoxicate O.S.

The video caused some controversy due to the fact it contained "flashing images", reason for which it was banned from MTV.

Patashnik

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

Spring of Two Blue J's

The album cover was a solarized photograph by renowned Japanese jazz photographer K. Abe, and the record labels designed by Frank Olinsky (the future designer of the MTV logo from Manhattan Design).

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.

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.

Triumph and Agony

The song "All We Are" received some airplay on American metal radio stations and its video clip shot by director Mark Rezyka had good rotation on MTV's Headbangers Ball.


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

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?"

Admirável Chip Novo

All the music videos for the songs were highly successful on MTV Brasil's Disk MTV, a correspondent to American MTV's TRL.

Adobe Premiere Express

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

Andrei Arlovski

Arlovski appeared on Mayhem Miller's MTV show Bully Beatdown in which he beat up a bully, earning the bully's victims $10,000.

Andrew Jenks

In January 2010, MTV signed Jenks to do a documentary-series titled World of Jenks.

Are You Magnetic?

"Are You Magnetic?" is the second single from Faker's second studio album Be the Twilight, although not achieving the major success as "This Heart Attack", it was very favored on channels and TV shows such as Channel V Hit Rater, MTV My Pix, and Network Ten Video Hits.

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.

Despedida

Not been as widespread as the first but it appears on MTV UK, Spain, Denmark, Netherland among other countries in Europe as in Latin America VH1.

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).

Don't Turn Off the Lights

Iglesias promoted the week of Thanksgiving, performing the song on TV shows Last Call with Carson Daly, MTV's TRL, Live with Regis and Kelly and the Today Show summer concert series, where he attracted the largest crowd of Summer Concert series to date.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

Katrin Fridriks

She also presented at the Goss-Michael Foundation for the MTV Re:Define project in 2011, at the Liverpool Biennial in 2008 and has undertaken commercial commissions for premium global brands, such as Land Rover’s 60th anniversary event or Ralph Lauren for the "Art Stars" project.

Keltech

Keltech's music has been published under multiple labels, including Second Skin, Intelligent, New Vision, Symbiosis, Broadcast, Headfuk and Sony BMG, and has been licensed to companies such as Sonic Foundry, BBC and MTV (for the Madonna/P Diddy profile show).

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.

Lifer

The band formed under the name Strangers with Candy in early 1999 and is most notable for winning MTV's Ultimate Cover Band contest, where they performed their own version of a-ha's hit song "Take On Me." They released a 7 song EP titled No Need in late March 2000.

Luke Toyne

Toyne has also presented live and pre-recorded TV, radio and corporates: quiz, youth, gambling and entertainment formats for MTV, GCap and O2 and appeared as a dating correspondent on Nihal’s BBC Asian Network show and Richard Bacon and Stephen Nolan on BBC Radio 5 Live.

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.

Mark Miremont

Much of his work was shown on MTV's alternative music program 120 Minutes.

Mary Aloe

Room 401 (2008) TV series (exec. producer, partnered with Ashton Kutcher) MTV

Matthew Pritchard

Mathew Pryderi Pritchard (born 30 March 1973) is a Welsh professional skateboarder, daredevil and one quarter of the Dirty Sanchez crew, who have their own television programme on MTV and also appears on Balls of Steel with Pancho as the Pain Men.

Mia Carruthers

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

One Rode to Asa Bay

Even so, the video received play of MTV's Headbangers Ball, which got Quorthon interviewed on MTV and introduced the band to American audiences.

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.

Putnam Hall

Putnam Hall’s guerilla Do-It-Yourself promotional tactics and flat-out hard work that has brought their music from shows all across Orange and LA Counties to garnering television airplay on MTV and radio airplay on 106.7 KROQ-FM and Indie 103.1.

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: Islands

Road Rules: Islands is the fourth season of MTV's reality television series, Road Rules.

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.

Rockcityclub

One of the original creators of MTV and co-founder of Internet service provider NetZero are listed among the company's board.

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.

Sussie 4

They have participated in collaborative presentations at festivals such as Techno Geist, Vive Latino Union Fest y Playa MTV in Mexico, Rock al Parque in Colombia, and Espárragos in Spain.

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.

The Fashion

The Fashion's debut album Rock Rock Kiss Kiss Combo was released in Denmark in September 2003 and gained extensive airplay across Danish radio, receiving MTV's Fresh Pick of the Week and positive reviews from Rolling Stone's David Fricke.

The Lyricist Lounge Show

MTV's The Lyricist Lounge Show had its roots in New York City's "Lyricist Lounge", a hip hop show case founded by Danny Castro and Anthony Marshall, which featured up and coming musical artists, many of whom have gone on to huge success, including Sean Combs, Notorious B.I.G, and Eminem.

The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP

The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP is an EP by the Australian pop rock duo The Veronicas.

Tomandandy

Milburn and Hajdu moved to New York after Princeton and started collaborating with film director Mark Pellington at MTV and film editors Hank Corwin and Bruce Ashley in the UK.

Wanna Be a VJ

Contestants were selected from the crowd around MTV's Times Square office, and narrowed down via challenges testing the applicants' music knowledge and personality.

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.

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.

You're Always Here

While promoting the film Scary Movie 5 (2013), in which she starred, Tisdale said in an interview to MTV that she was inspired to create music again and confirmed that since 2012 she has been recording for her third studio album.