Jamie White is an American
radio
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personality and
actress
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who is most notable for having hosted mornings on
KYSR Star 98.7 in
Los Angeles
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for nearly nine years. Initially hired by a
Kansas City
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radio station, she took a string of broadcasting jobs that had led to her former job at KYSR.
Jamie White has also played a part in a few movies, her largest movie role being an
MTV
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VJ and
groupie
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in the 2001 movie ''
Rock Star'' (Jamie's best friend,
Heidi Mark
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, was also in that movie). She's also had a few appearances on
TV show
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s including ''
Rock Star: Supernova'' when she interviewed a group of final contestants, including some bickering with winner
Lukas Rossi
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.
Biography
Jamie was born December 6, 1968, in the town of
Energy, Illinois
Energy is a village in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 974 at the 2020 census. The community was named for local "Energy" brand coal.
History
What is now Energy was originally known as "Fordville," which was est ...
, She has one sister, Mary Jo White-McCurdy, who still resides in Southern Illinois and is a community leader. She shares a very tight bond with her sister and father. Jamie took a
modeling
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Models c ...
job in
St. Louis, Missouri
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, that led to a career in radio broadcasting. Jamie co-hosted a morning radio show on Denver's KALC Alice105.9 with personalitlies Frosty and Frank. Jamie was married to a prominent
Denver
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orthopedic surgeon
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. Her personal website cites her
divorce
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and her mother's battle with
cancer
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as influential to her on-air personality. Jamie and her sister formed the Nancy White Breast Cancer Fund after their mother's passing to assist in the financial burden of women undergoing treatment.
In 1994, she was hired by Denver's
KALC Alice 105.9 along with Frosty Stilwell and Frank Kramer, to host the "
Jamie, Frosty and Frank Show", which became the number one morning show in Denver. In 1998, she moved to Los Angeles when the show was moved to KYSR Star 98.7 (while still being
syndicated to Denver on KALC). The "Jamie and Danny" show was also syndicated to KALC until the summer of 2000, then returned to Denver on KFMD (now
KDHT) from July 9, 2001 until April 27, 2005, when the station switched to an "
Urban
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" format.
The show remained on Star 98.7 until July 1, 2005, when Bonaduce was fired from the station and replaced with Technical Producer Jack Heine and producer Mike Roberts (aka "Stench") to form the "Jamie, Jack and Stench" weekday morning show. This show was taken off the air on April 10, 2006, along with the rest of the Star 98.7 DJs, but the morning show returned a month later on May 8.
White was also involved in an on-air argument with
KFI AM 640
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host
Bill Handel
William Wolf Handel (born August 25, 1951) is a Brazilian-born American radio host and attorney.
Handel currently hosts two radio programs on KFI in Los Angeles, California. First is KFI's local morning drive time show, in which he comments on ...
on December 15, 2006, that resulted in Handel being suspended for using obscene, threatening language.
White had asked Handel's two 12-year-old girls to stay out of the KYSR studios (in premises shared with KFI and other Clear Channel stations). In a tape of the exchange aired on
KTLA-TV - with four sections 'bleeped' - Handel tells White "If you ever talk to my kids that way again, Jamie, I'm gonna kick your
leep, criticizes her "
leeplosing numbers on this loser show" and shouts "Don't you touch me!" as he leaves the studio. The recording concludes with two bleeped f-bombs and White shouting "Get outta here, Bill. You're nuts!" Handel later apologized to the "Jamie, Jack and Stench Show", saying he lost his temper.
On January 3, 2007, she was let go from
KYSR
KYSR (98.7 FM) is a commercial alternative radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving the Greater Los Angeles area. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., KYSR is the flagship station of syndicated morning drive program ''The Woody Show''. T ...
when the station announced that the "Jamie, Jack, & Stench" morning show would not be returning from the holiday hiatus.
On March 8, 2007, Jack and Stench (Stretch) started their own subscription podcast. Jamie White
joined them from September 14, 2007, to June 8, 2009. She left the podcast to start a new job with 106.5 The Buzz in Sacramento, CA, on the Morning Show with Ryan Beaman.
On April 22, 2011, Jamie announced that she was leaving 106.5 The Buzz in Sacramento to stay home and raise her son.
On January 9, 2012, Jamie White returned to the
KALC Alice 105.9 Denver morning show currently hosted by
BJ Harris
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, replacing host
Erica Cobb
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.
Legal Problem
On July 11, 2009, White was arrested at 1:30 am for an undisclosed felony. She was booked at 2:31 am and released at 6:14 am on $50,000 bail from the
LAPD Pacific Division. She was then due back in court on August 5, 2009. Charges against White were eventually dropped.
Felony Charges Dropped Against Jamie White
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Filmography
References
External links
Jamie White
on Facebook
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Jamie, Jack, and Stench Show
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American radio personalities
1968 births
Living people