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Jamie White Back on the Air in Sacramento

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Mr11WXIA

Jamie White, formally of KYSR Star 98.7, will be back on the air after a 2 1/2 year absence from radio. She had a guest appearance on KLSX on the Tim Conway Jr show a few months ago and a trial run on another radio market's morning show. She will be on 106.5 The Buzz doing the morning show starting June 29th. She will do her portion of the morning show from studios in Denver, CO. Denver, she said on her podcast show, would be a good environment for her son. She will no longer be on the podcast show, which she had been on with her former morning radio partners, Jack Heine and Mike Roberts aka Stench/Stretch. White had been mostly absent on the podcast for the last month or so making preparations for her move to Denver.

We will see if Sacramento can handle Jamie, who can be funny, when she is not being outright mean.
 
Remember that incident with Bill Handel? We all know that Jamie White can be a little feisty. I think Jamie White will for sure make The Buzz even worse than it is right now. The Buzz is not exactly "buzzing around" much in Sacramento right now. The ironic part is that Entercom already tried this audience when it launched KWOD V2.0 in 2005! Didn't it learn anything from it's mistakes. But I'm sure White will work out for The Buzz because the station is attracting those middle aged women who love being nostalgic (translating to White's success)
 
I will say that with the Bill Handel incident, which I did hear live and uncensored (the internet feed at the time didn't use the dump button) Jamie was well justified in her confrontation with Bill Handel. A lot of people were not aware that Jamie had put up with Handel's daughters previously bothering her morning show phone screener, Monica Medina. They would come over from Bill's studio (on another floor in the building) and ask for candy while Monica was trying to answer the phone calls coming into the show. Jamie had asked the management at Clear Channel to talk to Bill. Bill had even apologized to her and assured her it wouldn't happen again.

On the December morning that will be remembered by Jamie, Jack and Stench listeners as the last time Clear Channel had them on the air, Handel's daughters burst into the KYSR studio while they were doing what the industry calls doing cuts. Cuts for people who don't know what they are, are separating audio tracks for different times during the show when the hosts want to play recording of things such as audio from The View or Tonight Show for example. The show wasn't on the air yet as it was before 5:30AM. They asked for CD's (you'd think Bill would have bought anything they would want) and were told they could not be in the studio and legally could not receive CD's from the producer and board operator. They then came back later while the Jamie, Jack, and Stench show was on the air, once again asking for things from Monica Medina. At that point, Jamie opened the studio door and held a plastic flute, pointing it at Handel's daughters and told them they couldn't be there.

Bill stormed up onto the floor and was pacing back and forth waiting for a station break to talk to Jamie. She saw him but had no idea that he was about to go off on her so she opened the studio door figuring he would be reasonable so she didn't wait for the commercial break. That turned out to be a bad call for her. Bill actually physically shoved the morning producer when he was in the studio, which actually kept Clear Channel from letting him go when they fired Jamie, Jack, and Mike aka Stench. They didn't want to get sued so they didn't let him go until a year later when the statute of limitations ran out for a lawsuit.

This was actually one of the few times Jaime wasn't being aggressive without a reason.
 
I listened online to Jamie auditioning in Seattle a few months back and thought she sounded GREAT! She was on with an LA comedian and they made fun of Bonadooshbag and had some great stuff on their short time together. The Seattle station still has not hired anyone.

She is not going from market #2 to #27...she is going from on the beach to EMPLOYED. You can't argue with that, especially when so many people are still sitting on the beach. Way to go Jamie!
 
SandyG said:
I listened online to Jamie auditioning in Seattle a few months back and thought she sounded GREAT! She was on with an LA comedian and they made fun of Bonadooshbag and had some great stuff on their short time together. The Seattle station still has not hired anyone.

She is not going from market #2 to #27...she is going from on the beach to EMPLOYED. You can't argue with that, especially when so many people are still sitting on the beach. Way to go Jamie!
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Well, I hope that she left her lawn chair there. Because who knows how soon she might return to the beach.
 
My personal opinion...Jamie, Jack and Stench were honestly the most annoying morning show that LA had ever heard. Jamie White has NO morning show talent. She seems more of someone you'd hear hosting a AC station on a midday, not morning. I would have rather preferred the bore-fest of Valentine and Lisa Foxx. Remember that one??? But overall, she will probably do good for the moment at "The Buzz", looking at who they're targeting.
 
Jamie has the most ANNOYING voice I have ever heard!
 
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