Jay Zeager, the morning show host of 95.9 FM Seaview Radio in West Palm Beach during a guest appearance on Star 106 in The Bahamas. (Photo by Debra Pinder)
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Bahamasair,
the nation’s national flag carrier has partnered with the Ministry of Tourism
(MOT) as it works to attract passengers for its West Palm Beach to Nassau
service.
According
to Woody Wilson, Senior Sales Manager, Bahamasair, the national flag carrier brought
in
Jay Zeager, the morning show host of
95.9 FM
Seaview Radio in West Palm Beach, on Thursday, July 17, for a
four day stay to promote the service.
Mr.
Wilson said, “We asked him to come over and broadcast live from here, and we
have paired him with Star 106 here in Nassau.
The talk
show host appeared on Star to talk about West Palm Beach, while the hosts from
the local radio station, Tony Williams and Greg Lampkin, talked about what The
Bahamas is all about and what to do during a stay in the country.
Mr.
Wilson also noted that during his stay, Jay experienced what to do while in
Nassau.
“This is
where our partnership with the Ministry comes in. We actually made sure that Jay saw everything
there was to see. We did not want him to
just come and see the hotel, but we wanted him to come and experience our
culture, our food and just have a good time in The Bahamas.”
Mr.
Wilson said that on Jay’s return to West Palm Beach, he was to do a drawing for
one of his lucky listeners to win a trip to come to The Bahamas. “So he is going to be telling one of them of
the wonderful time he had and then he is going to give one winner an opportunity
to come to The Bahamas and experience what he did.
“Then on
the flip side, Tony and Greg will do the same thing. They will give a lucky listener here in The
Bahamas an opportunity to win a trip to go over to West Palm Beach.
“So for
Bahamasair, the nation’s flag carrier, we need traffic in both directions. This is the way for us to bring everybody
together.”
Debra
Pinder, Assistant Manager, Communications and Public Relations, MOT made sure
that Jay and his guest experienced what Nassau had to offer in between his
stints at the radio station.
Jay said
they swam with the dolphins at Dolphin Encounters and visited Educulture where
they learned of the history of Junkanoo.
He said they also intended to experience scuba diving.
They also
ate at The Poop Deck and experienced eating fresh conch underneath the bridge
at Potter’s Cay Dock.
“The fish
kind of freaked me out because it looked like an actual fish. It had the head on the fish; we are not used
to seeing that.”
On Friday
evening, they attended the Summer Junkanoo Festival where they tried out the
local cuisine.
“I am
excited to go home and give one of our listeners a trip and let them come here
and experience all of this.”
“We are
going to be giving away one trip on Tuesday morning and then we are going to be
doing another trip later in the year.”
Jay said
he will also try and promote the Summer Junkanoo Festival as well as the Boxing
Day and New Year’s Junkanoo Parades.
“We are
hoping that our winner on Tuesday will take the trip and come back next weekend
to be able to see the Summer Junkanoo Festival, and then when we give another
trip away later on in the year, we are really going to promote that they do the
Boxing Day and the New Year’s Day Parades.”