DJ. The term means different things. Saying that you are a DJ will mean something entirely different depending upon the hearer. To the rap crowd it is the person who used the turntables to add scratches. Based upon my listening to rap today, I would say it is practically extinct. In the EDM world the DJ is the person who uses turntables, synthesizers and various switches and buttons to create the music at a rave.
For me a DJ was the person at a radio station responsible for announcing and playing the music. The letters stood for Disc Jockey. They jockeyed or moved around the discs or vinyl records on the turntables to play over the air. He or she also took requests from the listeners and hosted giveaways.
There is one other job of the DJ and that is keeping a proper flow to the show. It was the DJ'S responsibility to keep a proper mix to the show and avoid overplay. You would think that a computerized playlist would fix the problem, but it actually increased after WENC went to computer. The program kept picking the same artists over and over and needed to be overridden on a regular basis. That was the job of the DJ. He was needed to make sure, in our case, that an artist was played only once an hour, and as we had 2 hour shows, if you did repeat an artist, you could not repeat a song. You know happens with a policy like that? You discover a whole lot more music, that's what. And that's something sorely lacking in Christian Radio these days.
And that brings us to our final post in this series. The playlist was created to make sure a DJ wasn't playing his favorite artists over and over. A noble goal. But it has resulted in exactly what it wanted to avoid. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.
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