[1] Prior to his radio, TV, and film career, Elliott was the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of multiple companies.

In October 2004, The Jon Elliott Show began airing for two hours on Sunday afternoons on KLSD radio in San Diego, California.

He did so with guest John Meacham, the then Editor of Newsweek magazine[8] [www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek.html] who had devoted almost an entire issue to epilepsy, Jon's neurologist and his wife Katherine.

[9] Jon was named to Talker's Magazines annual “Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America” list for four consecutive years: 2007,[10] 2008 [11] 2009,[12] and 2010.

Other contributors included Tony Bennett, James Brady, Dominick Dunne, Nora Ephron, Melissa Etheridge, and Thomas Franzen.

In 1986 Jon co-hosted the pilot for the television series “VCR: Video Cassette Review” with Loren Sydney, host of CNN's daily “Show Biz Today”.

Jon shares the on-camera narrator duties with Bree Walker for the feature-length documentary film, Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio, which premiered in April 2012.