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List of MTV video jockeys

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7888519 ↗
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This is a list of people who have been video jockeys on the music channel MTV.

Originally hired to represent a wide array of musical tastes and personal ethnicities, VJs eventually became famous in their own right. Initially, they were nothing more than on-air personalities, but as the popularity of MTV grew, they began to branch out past just introducing music clips. Soon, they were considered by many to be full-fledged music journalists, interviewing major music celebrities and hosting their own television shows on the channel.

MTV U.S.

Former VJs

MTV

MTV News

A list of people who were MTV News on-site or digital personalities.

MTV 2

Chris Booker

DJ Envy

Jancee Dunn

Jim Shearer

Kris Kosach

MTVU

Carly Henderson

Gardner Loulan

George Oliphant

Sophia Parola

Kim Stolz

Sarah Messer

Josh McCutchen

MTV Chi

Angel Tang

MTV Desi

Niharika Desai

Tim Kash

Utkarsh Ambudkar

MHD

George Oliphant

Jeremy Bloom

MTV K

Grace Subervi

MTV Europe

Past VJs

MTV Asia

Includes the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of MTV video jockeys” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.