Brian "beej" Jackson

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Brian D. "Beej" Jackson was born in Harrison, Arkansas in 1957, the youngest child of a Baptist minister, the Rev. Dr. H. Dale Jackson and Frances Marie Reinsmith Jackson who moved their family to St. Louis in 1967.

Brian became involved in school and church music and dramatics, and as a teen played in several bands and appeared in a variety of stage entertainments. After graduating from Missouri Baptist College in 1979, Brian studied at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY while performing in a professional folk/rock band. In 1981 Brian was offered a radio show on WZZX/Louisville, and eventually became the morning announcer of WJYL/Louisville; he then worked at WAV970 under program director Lee Masters. In 1983 Brian assumed the morning show at WSTO, a 100 kW station serving the Evansville, Indiana/Owensboro, Kentucky markets; he has since made Owensboro his home. For nearly 15 years his show has had some 250,000 listeners a week.

In 1989 Brian established "Street Relief", a fund and consciousness-raising effort aimed at supporting area homeless relief charities. During his 9-year direction, millions of dollars were raised and hundreds of volunteers recruited for the cause.

In 1995 Brill Media purchased WSTO; in 1997 he was replaced and moved to rival 100 kW WQXQ. Since then WSTO's market share fell dramatically (from 33-share to sub-10-share) whereas WQXQ has increased its ratings.

In that same year Brian became the founding marketing director of Satellite America, where his radio advertising was responsible for the acquisition of over a quarter-million Dish Network subscribers.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000 Brian became the announcer for the TV show My Classic Car featuring Dennis Gage and in 2003 he was named Host/Writer/Announcer/Co-producer of Corbin's Ride On, a Speed TV series documenting the motorcycle hobby.

Brian is currently Vice President/Creative for Premier Marketing Services Inc., an advertising agency in Evansville, Indiana. He and his wife Rebecca reside in Western Kentucky near Owensboro on their horse farm, Dragon Hill.

Brian is a distant cousin of actor Don Johnson.