Russ Jackson has had a diverse media profession working in information and sports activities radio each on air and behind the scenes. He presently freelances for IMG and Westwood One broadcasts of NFL and faculty soccer video games. And he attributes all of it to his begin at WOUB.
“I grew up in Cincinnati and wished to get into media from a younger age. I had a present for talking and all the time wished to be behind the microphone,” Jackson mentioned. “My dad marketed on WLW radio on a regular basis and I knew quite a bit in regards to the station. I used to be taken with sports activities media. So when it got here time to search for a university, one in all my highschool counselors instructed me in regards to the popularity of the EW Scripps College of Journalism at Ohio College, and that was it.”
Along with the journalism college being among the finest within the nation, Jackson additionally selected Ohio College due to the alternatives to achieve hands-on expertise at locations like WOUB.
“WOUB made one other nice motive to decide on Ohio College,” Jackson mentioned. “It's so essential to have the ability to get dwell expertise early in your faculty profession. You didn't get to do this at different colleges. WOUB performed a giant position in why I selected Ohio College.”
Jackson labored at ACRN and WOUB throughout his time on campus. He labored for the WOUB Sports activities Division doing radio and tv and in addition hosted the Evening Shift radio music program.
After Jackson graduated in 1989, he obtained a job working at a radio station in Lima, Ohio. He was information and sports activities director on the station. Jackson then moved into sports activities radio in Cincinnati, working for stations that broadcast Cincinnati Bengals soccer video games and Cincinnati Reds baseball video games, earlier than working for IMG and Westwood One.
“Getting hands-on studio expertise with microphones proper from Ohio College is such a giant deal,” Jackson mentioned. “We obtained to do issues that they did in the true world and have issues to indicate potential employers was wonderful. Due to what I had achieved on the air at WOUB, I used to be in a position to get a job actually two weeks after graduating.”
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