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Adam R Jacobson was once an aspiring disc jockey who thought it was cool to have a DJ name. Cleverly, he reversed his last name and first name and came up with “Jake Adams” – hence the name JakeAdams – Editorial Services and Research Consultancy.
Jacobson’s radio career is highlighted by cameo appearances as a semi-frequent contest winner on WHTZ (Z100) in New York, an extremely brief internship at WMXJ (Majic 102.7) in Miami and as “Gnarly Charly” and “Bubba the Luv Sponge” at WVAU-AM & FM (Eagle 102) in Washington, DC – the student-run radio station at American University.
Despite a life-long desire to become a professional radio pronouncsticator, Jacobson followed the advice of retired Miami talk radio icon Neil Rogers and WABC-Channel 7 morning co-anchor Ken Rosato – “Stay out of the business!”
But Jacobson couldn’t do that. So he got his journalism degree from AU and after bouncing around a few jobs – including writing about sludge and toxic waste, of all things – he was hired at Radio & Records and moved to Los Angeles to cover the industry he’d loved since a kid.
Today, “Jake Adams” has a pitiful radio resume, which now includes a five-hour “audition” for a part-time weekend shift at Lincoln Financial Media’s Soft AC WLYF-FM “101.5 Lite FM” in Miami.
Unscoped hourlong recordings of Adams’ tryout at Lite FM are too large to post, at 10.2MB. Perhaps that’s a good thing (despite what friends and relatives have said about my abilities).
Nevertheless, Adam R Jacobson and the JakeAdams Editorial Services and Research Consultancy are eager to assist radio stations in a plethora of ways, from analysing Arbitron ratings to effectively communicating with local media and your listeners.
And, if you are desperately seeking a weekender or fill-in host and are within 150 miles of Miami, feel free to contact us – Lite FM is nothing to sneeze at!
Meanwhile, for your listening pleasure, here are three demos Adam R Jacobson cut in 2006 in yet another failed attempt to become the next Scott Shannon.
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As the senior associate editor at Hispanic Market Weekly, Jacobson developed and created all of the content featured in the CMO Essentials platform – including a series of video vignettes appearing at CMOEssentials.com and on YouTube during fall 2008.
Jacobson’s early work in front of the camera confirmed beyond a doubt that he’s a radio guy. However, he quickly got the hang of a three-minute video report.
Sadly, the project was abandoned in January 2009.
View Adam in a CMO Essentials report:
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