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Radio personalities who introduce and play individual selections of recorded music are known as disc jockeys or "DJs" for short. Broadcast radio personalities may include talk radio hosts, AM/FM radio show hosts, and satellite radio program hosts, and non-host contributors to radio programs, such as reporters or correspondents.
Disc jockeys at WMCA (AM) New York in 1964. 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 ...
Disc jockey. A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music festivals ), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or ...
History of DJing. DJing is the act of playing existing recorded music for a live audience. For the history of radio disc jockeys, see Radio disc jockey history . A young woman plays a gramophone in an air raid shelter in North London (1940).
A private, government-funded academy for prospective disc jockeys called L'Ecole des. France has brought the world pâté, the Kelly Bag, Citroëns and The Three Musketeers. Now it wants to add ...
Adrian Joseph Cronauer (September 8, 1938 – July 18, 2018) was an American radio personality and United States Air Force Sergeant [4] [5] [6] whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.
Gary Owens. Gary Owens (born Gary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 – February 12, 2015) was an American disc jockey, voice actor, announcer and radio personality. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Mary Turner, pioneering KMET disc jockey who ruled L.A. rock radio, dies at 76. Stephen Battaglio. May 12, 2023 at 9:50 PM. Mary Turner in 2005. (R. Diamond / WireImage via Getty images) Mary ...