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25 unusual facts about MTV


Amazonian pop art

Originally, it is an mural art that blends prominently the colorful amazonian culture, European motifs and commercial characters, which could be influenced by American pop art when the era of cable television came to the city, like MTV.

Appnovation

Some of Appnovation's clients include MTV, NBC Universal, Sage Software, World Wildife Fund and Nerve Media.

Arioch

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

Catupecu Machu

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

Dicta License

Dicta License also collaborated with Urbandub to do the theme song for the 2006 MTV Music Summit for HIV/AIDS, which was held December 2006 at The Fort Open Grounds.

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.

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.

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.

Jamie Livingston

He also worked as a cinematographer and editor of music videos for MTV, as well as working on advertisements with Nike.

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.

MTV-82

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

MTV's The 70s House

On each episode contestants were assigned tasks by Oscar, the house's unseen owner who communicated over speakerphone in an obvious parody of Charlie from Charlie's Angels.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Ally Burnett

Ally Burnett is an American pop and rock singer/songwriter best known for song placements on MTV shows such as 'Jersey Shore' and her theme song for 'The Seven'.

Andrew Jenks

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

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.

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.

Bill Flanagan

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

Burn It Black

The song also made it onto the soundtrack for the MTV reality wrestling show Tough Enough.

Burning Sensations

The group is best known for its MTV hit "Belly of the Whale", the music for which blends a rather unique fusion of rock and calypso styles, and for covering the Jonathan Richman song "Pablo Picasso", which was included in both the 1984 film and soundtrack of director Alex Cox's Repo Man starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez.

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’.

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.

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.

Keith Varon

An independent soft rock musician, several of his songs have been selected to appear on different TV shows, such as MTV's Laguna Beach and its spin-off The Hills as well as Next, ABC's What About Brian and Paradise City on E!.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Media Storm

The agency also specializes in advertising for entertainment clients and is the agency of record for: Fox, MTV, WE TV, Food Network, FX and TruTV.

Mia Carruthers

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

Northern Blue Entertainment

Working primarily in television, Northern Blue Entertainment has produced content for A&E, The Travel Channel, Sundance Channel, National Geographic, Lifetime, E! Entertainment, MTV, and WE: Women's Entertainment.

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.

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.

Road Rules: Islands

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

Rockcityclub

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

Ruby Rose

In order to land her gig as an MTV VJ in Australia, she competed against 2000 other hopefuls in a three-week national search, as former VJ Lyndsey Rodrigues moved to the United States to co-host TRL.

Run It!

In an episode of the MTV series When I Was 17, Jeremih reveals that "Run It!" was a favorite song of his.

Ryan A. Conklin

In 2008, after returning from his first tour in Iraq, Conklin was cast on the 21st season of the MTV reality series, The Real World in 2008.

Sam Korkis

His credits include 'American Chopper', 'Jesse James Outlaw Garage',and 'Street Outlaws' for Discovery, 'The Bachelor' for ABC,' 'Couples Therapy' for VH1, 'Temptation Island for FOX, 'High School Reunion for The WB, 'KEPT for VH1, 'Ultimate Blackjack Tour for CBS, 'Wrestling Society X for MTV, and numerous other series and pilots.

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.

Sister Crayon

Their debut video for the track "(In) Reverse" (directed by New York fashion photographer, Robert Ascroft) was aired several times on MTV's LOGO network in May 2010.

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

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

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 Challenge: Rivals

The season used former cast members from MTV's The Real World, Fresh Meat, Fresh Meat II and the Spring Break Challenge.

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.

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.

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.