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I have a job as disc jockey at a radio station. Do you listen to the radio?
A disc jockey (DJ) is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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History of radio disc jockeys
The history of radio disc jockeys covers the time when gramophone records were first transmitted by experimental radio broadcasters to present day radio personalities who host shows featuring a variety of recorded music. For a number of decades beginning in the 1930s, the term "disc jockey", "DJ", "deejay", or "jock" was exclusively used to describe on-air personalities who played selections of popular recorded music on radio broadcasting stations. The term "disc jockey" first appeared in print in a 1941 issue of Variety magazine, although the origin of the term is generally attributed to American radio news commentator Walter Winchell who used it to describe radio presenter Martin Block's practice of introducing phonograph recordings to create a "Make Believe Ballroom" experience for radio listeners.
Voice-tracking
Voice-tracking, also called cyber jocking and referred to sometimes colloquially as a robojock, is a technique employed by some radio stations in radio broadcasting to produce the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the radio studios of the station when one is not actually present. It is one of the notable effects of radio homogenization. Strictly speaking, voice-tracking refers to the process of a disc jockey prerecording his or her on-air "patter". It is then combined with songs, commercials, and other elements in order to produce a product that sounds like a live air shift.
Captain Mikey
Marion Elbridge Herrington (July 18, 1935 – November 16, 1997), (also known as Mikel Hunter Herrington), best known as Captain Mikey (and also known by the air names "Mikel Hunter", "Motorcycle Mikel", "Lefty", "Hot Rocks Hunter", and "Oil Can Harry"), was an American disc jockey; voice-over actor, who was the national voice for Sears; and innovative radio program director, who "pioneered album-oriented rock formats at San Jose's KOME and Los Angeles' KMET", and was described as "one of the very best programmers in Top 40 radio as well as what we called progressive rock on FM." In October 2007 he was inducted into the San Jose Rocks Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame on October 1, 2008.
Ellie Dylan
Ellie Dylan (born Elinor Angel Helman September 8, 1952) is currently the President and Founder of The Skyshapers Foundation (dba Skyshapers University) and the CEO, President and Founder of SKY U, LLC. Both Companies are involved with motivating children to excel. Dylan began her career in radio as a college disc jockey and rose to become ‘the most listened to female disc jockey in the United States’ on NBC Radio: First, by taking her 7:00pm to midnight time shift on WMAQ Radio from 17th place in the ratings to the number-one rated show in Chicago; Then, as the first female to do an afternoon drive shift on AM Radio in a major market.
History of DJing
DJing is the art of mixing recorded music in real time. "For the history of radio disc jockeys, see Radio disc jockey history". The practice of modern "real time" disc jockey mixing was preceded by radio personalities who introduced and played individual selections of recorded music on broadcast radio stations. In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term "disc jockey" (the combination of "disc", referring to the disc records, and "jockey", which is an operator of a machine) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first radio announcer to gain widespread fame for playing popular recorded music over the air.
Chubbie Chumps
"Chubbie Chumps" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series "The Goodies". This episode is also known as "Radio 2" and "The Beauty Contest" as well as "Housewives" and "Miss Housewife". Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Graeme and Bill return from their fishing trip to discover that the office wasn't completely clean and Tim has become obese through eating huge amounts of lard. Tim has also taken to listening to a radio show which, it turns out, is also listened to by a lot of housewives (all of whom have also become obese), and this leads the group (Tim included) to a health club, where they slim down again.
Symphony Sid
Sid Torin (born Sidney Tarnopol, December 14, 1909 – September 14, 1984), known professionally as "Symphony Sid", was a long-time jazz disc jockey in the United States. Many critics have credited him with introducing bebop to the mass audience. Sidney Tarnopol was born in New York City into a Jewish family. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, his parents were Isidore (a printer) and Caroline, both Yiddish-speaking immigrants; his father was from Russia and his mother from Romania. Sidney was the oldest of three siblings—he had a brother Martin and a sister Mildred. Born on New York's Lower East Side, Sid grew up in Brooklyn, in a poor neighborhood.