ted@iowadiscjockey.com

319-230-2500

Cedar Rapids DJ

Iowa City DJ

 

About Ted Burton Jacobsen

Ted Burton Jacobsen is a native of Decorah, Iowa. His work career started at a grocery store there, where he mastered the store intercom system as a teenager. From there, Ted Boy obtained a job as assistant janitor at the Luther College radio station. By the age of 20, he successfully established the station’s most popular program, sending its signal to a college population of about 2,000 students. Ted eventually served as Program Director and General Manager at KWLC. Prior to graduation, he was a student intern at WLS Radio in Chicago in the late 70’s, working under the likes of famous DJ’s Larry Lujack, Bob Sirott, John Landecker, and many more. From there, Ted spent tours of duty at commercial stations KROC in Rochester, Minnesota, and WIZM in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. At the beginning of 1980, he returned to his home state of Iowa, where he began a long run on FM Radio. The stations where Ted spent the bulk of his time were KKRQ 100.7 and KFMW 107.9, playing various genres of rock music: album rock, hot hits, top 40, adult contemporary, oldies, and classic rock. He served three runs as Morning DJ, and three separate terms as Program Director at those two stations, prior to his retirement from the airwaves in 1995. As a mobile DJ, Ted has mastered the art of the wedding dance, with twenty plus years of experience, and a list of past clients as long as your arm. He has trained and mentored several other mobile DJ’s in the area, and helped them to get started. With that much DJ road-time under his belt, it’s a sure bet that Ted knows and understands music as well as any DJ you’ll meet, and he knows how to create environments using it.