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14 unusual facts about 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.

Catupecu Machu

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Toenut

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

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.


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.

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 Dead Yet?

The clip received its premiere in the US on MTV Headbangers Ball on March 18, 2006 wherein the band made a special appearance.

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.

Bryan Defares

He played with Oakland (Slam-n-Jam) Soldiers in 1999-2000 for Coach Ken Carter, whom the 2005 MTV/Tollin-Robbins produced film Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson, was based.

Burn It Black

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

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.

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.

Force Theory

Their later work included composition and sound design on director Marjan Tehrani's Arusi: Persian Wedding (PBS, 2009) and a complete sound design for Benson Lee's Planet B-Boy, which aired on MTV in January 2009.

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.

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.

Jeff Kline

From 2006-2008 he was a consulting producer for Cartoon Network’s Banana Splits revival, wrote a Paris Hilton pilot for MTV, and co-wrote the feature film The Rosenbergs Save Christmas (with Goldie Hawn attached to star) for Fox Searchlight.

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.

Johan Liiva

After releasing their first album Black Earth in Japan that same year, the album became a success, receiving airplay on Japan's MTV Rocks! and in 1998 Arch Enemy were invited to tour Japan, and sign a new deal with Toy's Factory records.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: Islands

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

Robbie Rivera

The song became popular enough that it gave Rivera some face time on Top of the Pops and MTV.

Sinner or a Saint

Then it was featured on the mid-season 5 finale of MTV's series "The Hills".

Skellington Productions

After producing award-winning animation for MTV, Ritz, Pillsbury, and more, Tim Burton left to work on Beetlejuice (1988), so Selick renamed the studio to Selick Projects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).