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Mother-to-be radio star is at home on the airBy PAMELA DAVIS © St. Petersburg Times, published May 4, 2001 TAMPA -- Some listeners may not have realized the three voices from the Jeff & Jen Morning Show on WSSR-FM 95.7 (Star) were coming from separate locations all week. Jeff Thomas has been broadcasting from the Bahamas, news director Lori Lewis has been in the radio studio and Jennifer Jordan has been in her house. When Thomas returns to the studio Monday, Jordan will still be doing her half of the show from her Tampa home because she's on doctor-ordered bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. Instead of waking up at 3 a.m. and driving to the Clear Channel Communications complex where the WSSR studio is located, Jordan now rolls out of bed at 4:30 a.m. and gently walks to her spare bedroom where a makeshift studio is set up. She settles into her leather recliner (sometimes with Miller the cocker spaniel at her side), turns on the equipment, studies her notes and takes to the airwaves. Technology, including an ISDN line that sends voice and data over telephone lines, makes the transition possible. Add in the microphone, mixing board, computer, TV and headphones and it's as if Jordan were right there in the studio. But the separation has forced them all to listen to each other more closely. "Jeff and I have been such good friends for so long that a lot of times there are inside jokes between the two of us that we know just by looking at each other," Jordan said. "Now, we're forced to let the audience in a little bit more." She's also missing out on public appearances. "Not only am I detached from the people in the building," Jordan said. "I'm detached from listeners." VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR: Orlando, WLLD-FM 98.7 program director and co-host of the Morning Freak Show, is featured in Wyclef Jean's video for Perfect Gentleman. It debuted Wednesday on MTV's Total Request Live. Orlando met Jean in San Francisco last year when radio programmers, in town for a convention, were invited to Jean's recording studio to hear some songs he was working on for Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book. Wyclef solicited advice from Orlando and the two hit it off, Orlando said. The video was filmed about four weeks ago in California and can be downloaded on WLLD's Web site at www.wild987.com. WMNF EVENT: Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, which airs on community radio station WMNF-FM 88.5 weekdays at noon, and Verna Avery Brown, the former host of the Pacifica Report, which airs at 6 p.m., will be in Tampa Saturday. The broadcast journalists will speak about the current dispute at the Pacifica network at 7 p.m. at St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church, 506 E Harrison. Tickets are $15 at the door or $10 in advance by calling the station at (813) 238-8001 or purchasing tickets at outlets listed on WMNF's Web site, www.wmnf.org.
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