Classic Nick Wed. – Nick Rocks: Video To Go
January 9, 2013
Nickelodeon’s answer to MTV came in the form of Nick Rocks
Video To Go! Joe from Chicago hosted this half hour video show began airing in
1982 and ran until 1989 and featured pop and rock music videos. Veteran
television composer Edd Kalehoff wrote the show’s theme song.
>>>From Wikipedia<<<
"Joe from Chicago" was / is really Joseph R.
Piasek, formerly the director of programming and news of New York's WPIX-FM and
currently on the faculty of New York University and SUNY Delhi.
Joe wrote and voiced Nick Rocks, which was produced by Andy
Bamberger, for Nickelodeon. Joe was an original member of Nickelodeon's 1984
on-air launch team and remained a voice producer, writer, director, and
consultant throughout most of Nickelodeon's (and Nick at Nite's) formative
years, producing, scheduling, writing and performing the networks'
"voiceover credits" and top-of-the-hour "pronouncements."
He has done similar work for Viacom's VH-1 and TNN. Joe's
doctoral thesis chronicles Nickelodeon's childhood in the context of
organizational learning. His earlier exploits in radio are revealed in Paul
Colford's book "King of All Media: Howard Stern." Piasek is a
co-founder and manager of WIOX radio in the Catskill Mountains, a wildly
diverse, live, community radio station at 91.3FM in Roxbury (NY) and
wioxradio.org.
Nick Jr. Rocks was a spin-off of Nick Rocks, a 30 minute
Nickelodeon program that consisted of popular music videos. This program aired
on Nick Jr. and was geared toward a younger audience.
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