Jason Reeves
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Jason Reeves is a New Zealand radio broadcaster who hosts the drive home show on Classic Hits FM and he has also worked on The Edge and ZM and also hosted Headliners on TVNZ. His partner is Tanya Pouwhare who was the winner of TV Series Treasure Island in 2001.
Jason began his radio career in 1994 at the age of 18 after leaving Karamu High School and working on Hot 93FM in Hawkes Bay. Jason remained there until 1996 when he moved over to another Hawkes Bay Station Xtreme 100. In 1997 Jason then moved to Hamilton to work on then local station The Edge originally working on the Drivetime show and moving onto the breakfast show with Jay Jay Feeney in 1998. The Edge was the radio station that made Jason Reeves a household name across New Zealand as Jason worked with the station at a time when it grow from being a local Hamilton station to becoming a nationwide network station based from Auckland.
At the end of 2004 Jason left The Edge and it was reported shortly after as a result of a prank carried out by his breakfast co-hosts Jay Jay Feeney and Dominic Harvey. Jay Jay and Dom started sending Jason text messages from a prepay cellphone pretending to be a fan who somehow managed to get Jason's number. Over 100 texts were sent and management of The Edge were aware such a prank was going on, Jason left filing a personal grievance against The Edge operators Canwest Mediaworks. [1] In February 2005 only 3 months after leaving The Edge, Reeves was given a job with oposition station ZM originally co-hosting Stables Rump 30 countdown with Stables on Saturday afternoons and later his own Saturday morning breakfast show with co-host Andrew Mulligan. Jason also filled in for other ZM announcers, including Stables while he took leave to Judge NZ Idol and the ZM Morning Crew, Polly and Grant.
Jason's success on radio allowed him to have a short television career between 2004 and 2005 co-hosting his own television show on TV1 called Headliners as well as voice over work for other TV shows. At the end of 2005 Jason's contract with TVNZ was terminated after Headliners was axed as part of a revamp of the TV1 News Service, which also involved sacking long serving newsreader Judy Bailey.
In February of 2007 Jason moved over to Classic Hits and now hosts the Drivetime show.
