He is best known as one of the original five video jockeys (VJs), along with Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson and Martha Quinn, on the music network MTV, from 1981 to 1987.

He was heard Monday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Goodman was on the air the night in December 1980 that John Lennon was murdered in front of his Manhattan apartment building.

In a 1983 interview with David Bowie, the singer pressed Goodman on MTV for playing few music videos by black artists during that time.

Goodman received no royalties from replays of the show but was pleased to help people learn how to eat right, exercise more, and be open to alternative methods of healing and stress reduction.

Over the next 10 years, he worked at alternative rock KROQ-FM and KYSR "Star 98.7" in Los Angeles; WKQX "Q101" and WLS-FM in Chicago; and KMXP "Mix 96.9" in Phoenix.

After the dot com crash, Goodman was offered a position on Sirius Satellite Radio on its Big 80s channel, along with the three living original MTV VJs, Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter.

Concurrent with his work at SiriusXM, Goodman supervised the music for several pilots for Fox television as well as for the Touchstone/ABC TV show Desperate Housewives.