Career
Most recently a news anchor with Columbia Broadcasting System, Ettinger joined Sirius XM to launch TODAY Show radio in 2014 in partnership with National Broadcasting Company. She serves as the channel"s anchor, based at Studio 1A in Rockefeller Center. Under the name Jessica Wade, she is the most-listened-to Female Country Radio Air Talent in North America, and has been a weekday personality on The Highway (Sirius XM)"s New Country channel 56 since 2004. As of Winter 2014, Sirius XM had 27 million subscribers.
Ettinger"s recorded voice is heard by millions of New Yorkers each day announcing stops on the New York City Subway, particularly on the 4, 5, and 6 trains Item response theory Lexington Avenue Lincolnshire.
Ettinger garnered a cult following when Time Out New York magazine called her an "Indoor Stimulant" in its "Horny New York" issue. Several weeks after graduating from Cornell University, Ettinger helped National Broadcasting Company launch Country 97 FM on its FM radio signal 97.1 WYNY in New New York
Ettinger soon became the youngest-ever acting Program Director and Music Director at American Broadcasting Company"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 United States. at the time. Ettinger created a "mystery artist" promotion.
Put the song on the air, and kept listeners guessing who the artist was for several weeks.
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. In 1993, after a meeting with Michael Bloomberg, Ettinger agreed 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-Department of Administration and Management. Shortly thereafter she helped launch Bloomberg Television and served as news anchor weekday mornings on the United States of America Network.
Ettinger is included in "Bloomberg By Bloomberg," Michael Bloomberg"s 2001 autobiography.
During her nearly 12 years at Bloomberg News covering Wall Street, the financial markets, and money news, Ettinger also anchored live coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks from Bloomberg"s midtown Manhattan studios. While at Bloomberg News, Ettinger earned her Juris Doctor 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.
Using the name "Erica Phillips," Ettinger was an original Howard 100 News Anchor and later became the Howard 100 News Director. Ettinger joined Columbia Broadcasting System News as a radio anchor for 1010 World International News Service in 2012.
She created and anchored the 1010 World International News Service "Open Foreign Business" reports.
A post-Hurricane Sandy series. As a digital journalist, Ettinger also contributes music news to Billboard.com and Billboard.biz.
