Wanna Be a VJ - Wikipedia Wanna Be a VJ This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2017 ) Wanna Be a VJ Genre Reality television Starring Jesse Camp Country of origin United States Original language ( s ) English Release Original network MTV Original release 1998 -- 2000 Wanna Be a VJ was a show and contest on MTV in the United States. Contestants were selected from the crowd around MTV 's Times Square office, and narrowed down via challenges testing the applicants ' music knowledge and personality. Once narrowed down to six contestants, viewers were allowed to vote for contestants by telephone and on the Internet. The winner was awarded $25,000 and a one - year contract to be a veejay on Total Request Live. All three events were hosted by Carson Daly. Contents 1 Wanna Be a VJ ( 1998 ) 2 Wanna Be a VJ Too ( 1999 ) 3 Wanna Be a VJ 3 ( 2000 ) 4 External links 5 External links Wanna Be a VJ ( 1998 ) In the first Wanna Be a VJ contest Jesse Camp beat Dave Holmes. Holmes ended up hosting various shows on MTV until 2001. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2017 ) Camp 's unexpected victory caused many viewers to suspect foul play. The Village Voice ran an article in which a source, identified only by his online handle `` UglyPig '', claimed to have hacked the voting site, allowing him to vote more than 3,000 times. Wanna Be a VJ too ( 1999 ) The second Wanna Be a VJ contest was won by 21 - year - old Thalia DaCosta, from Sunrise, Florida. Wanna Be a VJ 3 ( 2000 ) The third Wanna Be a VJ contest was won by Ray Munns. Munns went on to defend his job five times on a live show entitled TRL Presents : VJ for a Day, where he and the contestants introduced the eleven through fifteen videos of TRL. Ray was the first ever half - Korean VJ ( he is also a quarter - Irish and a quarter - English ) and was the first contest winner to stay longer than a year at MTV. The runner up, Shannon Wiseman of Dallas, North Carolina, became a co-host for UPN 's Atlanta Tonight in 2004 and the host of NASCAR. COM 's Post-Race Show in 2005. External links Jump up ^ `` MTV Contest Hacked '', The Village Voice, May 5, 1998 External links Wanna Be a VJ on IMDb `` I Want My Camp TV '', Salon.com, May 8, 1998 This article about a television show originating in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wanna_Be_a_VJ&oldid=800054082 '' Categories : 1998 American television series debuts 1990s American television series American reality television series English - language television programs MTV television series United States television program stubs Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from July 2017 All articles needing additional references All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 11 September 2017, at 08 : 30. About Wikipedia

Question: who won the first wanna be a vj contest on mtv
Answer: Jesse Camp