{"id":765468,"date":"2026-07-16T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:58:11","slug":"dave-kendall-who-spotlighted-alternative-music-on-mtvs-120-minutes-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765468\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Kendall, who spotlighted alternative music on MTV\u2019s \u2018120 Minutes,\u2019 dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QOKPVXZSEJGUBIHT2MXZO7TLP4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dave Kendall, who helped introduce a generation of MTV viewers to alternative music as the creator and host of \u201c120 Minutes,\u201d has died. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ALM3QEW6PFBARANY5WJ2RJXU4M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Matt Pinfield, one of several presenters who succeeded Mr. Kendall as host of the influential late-night show, announced his death in a post on social media. Additional information, including on Mr. Kendall\u2019s age, was not immediately available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Kendall, who helped introduce a generation of MTV viewers to alternative music as the creator and host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-765468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}