Background
He was born in Humboldt and raised near Trenton, Tennessee.
He was born in Humboldt and raised near Trenton, Tennessee.
After graduation from college at Middle Tennessee State University in 1981, he worked in radio at WIRJ (Department of Administration and Management)/WZDQ-FM in Humboldt, Tennessee from 1982–1983, moving to television as a weathercaster/news reporter at WBBJ-television in Jackson, Tennessee. He also spent a short stint as a sports anchor at WBBJ, before moving to WPSD-television in Paducah, Kentucky in 1989 as weekend news anchor/meteorologist. Jetton is a second cousin of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist National Caldwell of the Nashville Tennessean.
Jetton left WPSD to work in marketing.