{"id":766793,"date":"2026-07-16T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766793\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:46:12","slug":"dave-kendall-creator-and-host-of-mtvs-120-minutes-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766793\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Kendall, Creator and Host of MTV\u2019s ‘120 Minutes,’ Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDave Kendall, the creator and longtime host of MTV<\/a>\u2019s highly influential show 120 Minutes, has died. A cause of death and age were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatt Pinfield, a DJ and fellow former MTV host, confirmed the news on social media. \u201cDave was one of the true believers. Long before alternative music found its way into the mainstream, he was there every week on 120 Minutes, introducing people to bands that would go on to define an era,\u201d wrote Pinfield in an Instagram post. \u201cHe didn\u2019t just host a show. He gave a home to music that deserved to be heard. He loved the music, respected the artists, and connected with fans in a way that always felt authentic. That\u2019s a rare gift. Sending love to everyone whose life he touched. Rest easy, Dave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKendall began his career as a journalist and editor. His work appeared in both U.S. and British publications, including Melody Maker, Spin, and the New York Post, according to his website<\/a>. He moved from his native England to New York, and while living there, created 120 Minutes. The show initially aired late on Sunday nights on MTV, where he served as a writer, producer, presenter, and news reporter for seven years, beginning in 1986.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter MTV, Kendall went on to work on the TV program Music Scoupe and in radio, including hosting the program Planet Traxx on New York\u2019s Hot 97 and serving as a host for syndicated shows Left of the Dial and Cross Currents, according to his website. In the Nineties, he worked on a number of internet endeavors, including projects for Raygun Publishing, Inc., Soundbreak.com, and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tKendall also worked as a club DJ, serving a seven-year residency at New York\u2019s Limelight alongside playing other clubs. In 2001, he released\u00a0A Voyage Into Trance, Volume 2 via Hypnotic\/Cleopatra Records.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the mid-2000s, he moved to Thailand, and later lived in Hong Kong and Shanghai. As of 2017, he worked for Bangkok Post, where he wrote and edited stories, produced and anchored podcasts, and more.<\/p>\n

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\n\tJim Shearer, the host of 120 Minutes when its run ended in 2003, shares an anecdote with Rolling Stone about filming the final episode with Kendall and Pinfield. \u201cI met Dave for the first time when MTV2 flew in him and Matt for the final episode of 120 Minutes,\u201d Shearer says. \u201c120 Minutes was my all-time favorite MTV show, so it was an honor to share the screen with Dave, the creator and former host of the show, and Matt, the face of the show during my formative years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShearer adds: \u201cI told Dave and Matt that their two names would be remembered\u00a0whenever 120 Minutes is talked about in past tense. Twenty-three years later, I haven\u2019t been proven wrong.\u00a0Dave cared about music deeply and his idea to create 120 Minutes helped shape a really cool era in music. If you came of age musically in the Eighties or Nineties, you may even call it the best of era of music!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Kendall, the creator and longtime host of MTV\u2019s highly influential show 120 Minutes, has died. A cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,29277,45482,13441],"class_list":["post-766793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-mtv","tag-obit","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766793","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=766793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}