Martha Quinn Biography

Martha Quinn is best known as one of the original video jockeys on MTV (along with Nina Blackwood Mark Goodman Alan Hunter and J.J. Jackson). On July 13 1981 Quinn was working at NYU's Weinstein Dormitory where she answered phones and gave students their toilet paper mail and lightbulbs. At the end of her day she decided to stop at WNBC Music Radio where she'd just finished up interning for her senior year. Coincidentally California record company executive Burt Stein was also visiting WNBC. He asked out loud if anyone knew what Bob Pittman was doing. Pittman had been the program director of WNBC a year or so earlier but had left to start a new venture: a cable channel called MTV (Music Television). WNBC assistant program director Buzz Brindle overheard Steins question and remembered the new venture. He turned to Quinn and suggested that she should try out for a role at the new network as a VJ. Brindle called Pittman and told him about his former intern Martha Quinn. Pittman told him to get her to the MTV studios immediately as it was the last day of auditions. Quinn immediately took a cab to Hell's Kitchen for her audition.

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