Jack Jacobson began his broadcasting career in 1929 on WHAM radio at the age of eight in Rochester, New York. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Jubilee of Freedom Medal from the French government. After World War II, he entered a fifty-four-year career in radio and television broadcasting, which included serving on ABC television network’s first Promotion Advisory Board, and was inducted into the Arizona Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame. He passed away in 2009.