DJs who scratch or mix generally prefer to use direct-drive turntables.

Though the station was young and trendy and a big favourite with pop-loving kids, the male DJs generally did not come into the " hunk " category and therefore Davies was projected as the eligible bachelor of the station, complete with catchphrase " Young, Free and Single " and saucy jingles which went " Wooh!

WRSU has a station playlist, but it generally consists of several hundred entire albums, and individual DJs have a large amount of control over the format of their shows.

BBC Radio 1's programming proceeded as normal throughout the day but with regular reports and updates both from the incumbent DJs and the Newsbeat team generally including listener feedback on the transport situation.

DJs played new records generally not played elsewhere.

DJ Alfredo still heralds the most diversity among Ibiza DJs, but generally the approach to mixing as well as the terminology, have been swallowed up by the Chillout scene.

For the time being, WODS remains " jockless " ( meaning without live DJs ), except for a couple of board operators who answer phone lines.

DJs stopped announcing the titles of the songs, and instead, to maintain an uninterrupted mood, listeners could call a 1-800 phone number to find out what song was playing.

Hoffman was one of the first of the 1980s style of contemporary hit radio ( CHR ) DJs — heavy on brief phone bits from listeners and a sarcastic sense of humor, sounding " hip ", as the future Z100 DJs would a few years later.

WNEW-FM was among the first stations to give Bruce Springsteen significant airplay, and conducted live broadcasts of key Springsteen concerts in 1975 and 1978 ; Springsteen would sometimes call up the DJs during records.

DJs call this " Pegging the Post " or " hitting the post ".

Country and bluegrass legend John Hartford parodied the distinctive style of WSM DJs on the album Aereo-plain, humorously changing the station's call letters to the phrase " Dorothy S.

After what many listeners and people in the industry perceived as a long steady decline in the station's output, attributed by most accounts to the station's decision to bring in consultant Lee Abrams and the strict " album oriented rock " formatting he favored, KMET management shocked southern California and all of radio by abruptly dumping rock music, the call letters and the entire air staff in 1987, switching to a new age format with no DJs at all.

This channel is famous for organising one of the four Hong Kong annual music awards, in which the prizes are awarded to the singers according to how often their songs are plugged, as they call it in Hong Kong, by the DJs.

Rock music entered the mainstream during the 1950s because of controversial white DJs such as Dewey Phillips, Alan Freed, Dick Clark and Wolfman Jack with an appreciation for black music.

The remaining classic DJs left on the station departed one by one during 1998.

Music of all types, from live jazz to DJs spinning techno, can be found in the bars and nightclubs and there are a number of festivals and special outdoor concerts during the summer.

Scratching would during the 1980s become a staple of hip hop music, being used by producers and DJs on records and in live shows.

More sophisticated methods of scratching were developed during that decade, with crews and individual DJs concentrating on the manipulation of the record in time with the manipulation of the cross fader on the mixer to create new rhythms and sonic artefacts with a variety of sounds.

The spelling and indeed the use of the word " Ghettotech " is contentious, with many Detroit DJs and artists preferring not to use the term, although Disco D is credited with developing the usage during his days as a teenager on the scene.

During the 1980s, the station would remain on air during morning / afternoon academic hours, going off air in the evening and weekends unless DJs were willing to volunteer.

Several festivals featuring foreign DJs take place in the country, many of them on the Ohrid Lake during the summer season.

More surprising numbers of airchecks have survived from listeners during the Top 40 era, many of whom recorded talented DJs to learn how to be DJs, and many who recorded Top 40 music because it was cheaper than buying the 45s.

This has allowed them to feature some of the world ’ s biggest DJs during the Drive @ 5 Streetmix, such as Tiesto, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Benny Benassi and special appearances by Paul Van Dyk and other world renowned DJs in various timeslots.

With the Butler family no longer owning the newspaper or broadcast properties, WBEN attempted to contemporize the sound during the mid-late 1970s by firing some of it's longtime on-air institutions, hiring DJs and playing Top-40 music.

The album sold moderately well — including on-site sales at the Hungry i during the Kingston Trio's engagement there through the summer — but it was DJs Paul Colburn and Bill Terry at station KLUB in Salt Lake City whose enthusiasm for a single cut on the record spurred the next development in the group's history.

The Orb established the genre in 1989 as DJs during night-club events called The Land of Oz, based at the night-club Heaven.

Another contributing factor was the underground power of the Spanish Radio market: Popular local DJs played marathon sets of Sánchez's music during the days following his death, and announced the time and location of the Norwalk wake to a broad audience of young Spanish-speaking listeners.

She was most popular during the mid 1990s in the Nordic countries, in Asia and Australia in the end of 1990s to mid 2000s but is still active and releasing material more recently as United DJs vs. Pandora.

Following Hurricane Katrina, 99X staged a weekend promotion during which they sent all their DJs out to help with disaster relief efforts while the music was aired from then-music-director Jay Harren's iPod.

A famous tape, or aircheck, of WABC from 1964 features some of the DJs speaking from a window of the Beatles ' hotel room during the Fab Four's visit to New York City, while Dan Ingram, back in the studio, played WABC jingles to thousands of teenagers in the streets below, who enthusiastically sang along with them.

Three of the fired DJs and staff ( Dan Taylor, Bob Shannon, and Mr. G ) returned to the station, along with newsman Al Meredith ( who had stayed at the station during Jack-FM doing his Sunday morning public affairs show ), as well as DJ Pat St. John who had previously left CBS-FM for Q104. 3 about a year before the flip to Jack.

The label symbolizes the international explosion of dance music during the 1990s and first manifesto for high-end DJs such as Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman, Darren Emerson, and James Lavelle.

DJs who have " free-format " shows are required to play three genres of music during their show.

The exceptions to this policy are during " live mics " when bands play live at the station in an area affectionately known as " the pit ", the occasional " Freak Week " of freeform programming, and the " Month of Mayhem " ( May ) when DJs are encouraged to come up with original programming focused on a band, a genre or another creative theme.

These days it is considered basic among DJs in electronic dance music genres, and it is standard practice in clubs to keep the constant beat through the night, even if DJs change in the middle.

For instance, in the music industry, the top-selling pop singers have a strong potential to become celebrities, but the behind-the-scenes professionals tend to remain little known to the general public ( e. g. dancers, disc jockeys, record producers, and composers ); though in recent years, Club DJs such as David Guetta, Skrillex and Deadmau5 or composer David Foster have achieved worldwide fame for their respective work in the music industry.

Radio DJs or radio personalities introduce and play music that is broadcast on AM, FM, shortwave, digital, or internet radio stations.

Club DJs select and play music in bars, nightclubs, or discothèques, or at parties or raves, or even in stadiums.

Mobile DJs travel with portable sound systems and play recorded music at a variety of events.

Several techniques are used by DJs as a means to better mix and blend recorded music.

Promoters, who called themselves DJs, would throw large parties in the streets that centered on the disc jockey, called the " selector ," who played dance music from large, loud PA systems and bantered over the music with a boastful, rhythmic chanting style called " toasting ".

The rave scene changed dance music, the image of DJs, and the nature of promoting.

This meant that DJs could apply for a license giving them the right to perform publicly using music stored on a hard drive, instead of having to cart their whole CD collections around to their gigs.

One theory is that the term refers to the mixing techniques of DJs who spun this form of music in its pre-house incarnations.

Disco was an influence on house music, which was also influenced by mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco DJs, producers, and audio engineers like Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M and others who produced longer, more repetitive and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings.

Most music stations have DJs that play music from a playlist determined by the program director, arranged by blocks of time.

Rock music has a long and honorable radio tradition going back to DJs like Wolfman Jack and Alan Freed, and as a result variations on rock radio are fairly common.

It was not until the mid-to late-1980s that DJs and electronic musicians in Chicago found a use for the machine in the context of the newly developing house music genre.

Like the pioneering Bronx crews of DJs Kool Herc, Afrika Bambataa and Grandmaster Flash, the soundsystems provided party music for public spaces, often in the economically deprived council estates from which some of their members originated.

Bristol's soundsystem DJs, drawing heavily on Jamaican dub music, typically used a laid-back, slow and heavy drum beat (" down tempo ").

However, it would not be until 1994 when the term entered the popular consciousness, being used extensively by the music press and radio DJs.

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.