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Jessica Ettinger (born in 1964) is an American broadcaster and non-practicing lawyer.
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- RARE R142 2 Trains voice announcement Jessica Ettinger Gottesman via the Westchester Avenue Line
- Andrew Campbell and Jessica Ettinger Gottesman
- Career
- Awards
- References
Most recently a news anchor with CBS, Ettinger joined Sirius XM to create and launch TODAY Show radio in 2014 in partnership with NBC News. She serves as the broadcast's host, based at NBC's Studio 1A in Rockefeller Center.
Ettinger's recorded voice is heard on the New York City Subway system, providing the automated announcements on the 4, 5 and 6 trains.
Under the name Jessica Wade, she is one of the most-listened-to Female Country Radio Air talents in North America, and has been a personality on The Highway (Sirius XM)'s New Country channel 56 since 2004. As of Winter 2014, Sirius XM had 27 million subscribers.
Andrew Campbell and Jessica Ettinger Gottesman
Career
Several weeks after graduating from Cornell University and leaving the Program Director position at WVBR-FM, Ettinger was asked to help NBC flip the format of WYNY-FM, and became the Music Director and air talent at Country 97 FM.
Soon after, Ettinger was tapped as the youngest-ever acting Program Director and Music Director at ABC's WPLJ-FM New York, where she up-ended the top 40 music and radio industry by playing a song by an unsigned artist that was unavailable in the U.S. Ettinger created a "mystery artist" promotion; put the song on the air, and kept listeners guessing who the artist was for several weeks. Eventually, Ettinger had her air talent announce that the song "Soldier of Love" was by former child star Donny Osmond, who appeared live on the air for the reveal. Osmond was soon signed by Capitol Records, which copied Ettinger's promotion idea nationwide and released the song as a single. "Soldier of Love" reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 and Osmond credits Ettinger with re-launching his career by listening to the music and not pre-judging whether a song could be a hit based on the name of the artist.
Interested in innovation, she met with Michael Bloomberg, and agreed to return to news to help build New York's first all-business news radio station, Bloomberg Radio, joining Bloomberg, L.P. as an anchor for his newly acquired WBBR-AM. Shortly thereafter she helped launch Bloomberg Television and served as its weekday morning news anchor on the USA Network. Ettinger is included in "Bloomberg By Bloomberg," Michael Bloomberg's 2001 autobiography. During her nearly 12 years at Bloomberg News covering Wall Street and the financial markets, Ettinger also anchored live coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks from Bloomberg's midtown Manhattan studios. While at Bloomberg News, Ettinger earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
In 2006, Ettinger was asked by SiriusXM to assist in the creation and launch of Howard 100 News, ahead of the arrival of Howard Stern, creating the first reality-parody news organization.
Ettinger joined CBS News as a radio anchor for 1010 WINS in 2004, and rejoined in 2012. She created and anchored the 1010 WINS "Open For Business" reports; a post-Hurricane Sandy series. As a digital journalist, Ettinger also contributes music news to Billboard.com and Billboard.Biz.
Awards
Ettinger has won a Gracie Award for her anchor work, AP and UPI Broadcast Sports awards for her coverage of the Yankees Road to the World Seriesand the New York Rangers Stanley Cup Win, and several regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. In 2015, she was awarded a New York Press Club Excellence in Journalism award for Entertainment News for her work at NBC's TODAY.