Mark Goodman

Mark Goodman (born October 11, 1952, Philadelphia, PA) is a radio DJ, TV personality, and actor. He is best known as one of the original five VJs on MTV, from 1981-1987. He is also best known for hosting Illinois Instant Riches and its successor Illinois' Luckiest alongside Linda Kollmeyer for the Illinois Lottery and WGN-TV.

He started out as a radio personality at WMMR-TV in his hometown of Philadelphia and later moved to New York to work at WPLJ, the number one rock station in New York.

In 1981, he left WPLJ and became one of the first ever VJs (video jockeys) for the then new cable network MTV. He worked as a VJ for six years from 1981-1987.

Goodman returned to radio in 1989 in Los Angeles on “The Edge”. Over the next 10 years he worked at stations including KROQ-FM, KMPC-FM (The Edge) and Star 98.7 in Los Angeles as well as Q101 and WLS-FM in Chicago, IL and Mix 96.9 in Phoenix, AZ.

While still doing radio, Mark became an accomplished actor doing show like: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Married with Children and The Practice. He even hosted TV programs.

In 1999, Goodman became Senior VP of Music Programming for Soundbreak.com, an internet radio station. He developed the format, hired and trained the air staff and developed all the special programming which became available for syndication to other sites including British Telecom Open World, As Seen In (Aaron Spelling’s site) and Newgrounds.

After the dot com crash, Goodman was offered a position on Sirius Satellite Radio on their Big 80s channel with the other three original MTV VJs still living, Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn, and Alan Hunter. Since starting there in 2004, Goodman has added shows on Classic Rewind (late '70s through early '90s rock) and The Spectrum.

Concurrent with his work at SiriusXM, Goodman worked in music supervision. He music supervised several pilots for Fox and the Touchstone/ABC TV show Desperate Housewives.

In the mid-2000s, Goodman could be seen on VH-1 and VH-1 Classic doing interviews and hosting special programs while continuing to broadcast 7 days a week on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.