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What are the DJs actually doing?

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vchimpanzee

I don't know what the DJs on the station I am listening to now actually do, but the one who is on now, the man who runs the station, just talked about how hard he has to work. This isn't an exact quote.

"I sit here listening to old records and drinking tea. I don't know how I manage."

He does give the impression he listens. Sometimes he will talk about how much he liked a record, and occasionally he will say he didn't like it.
 
In commercial radio, most DJ shifts are voice tracked. They put together a day's show in an hour or so, depending on the format. In most formats, the DJ is only talking a minute or two per hour, so a 6 hour shift only involves 12 minutes of talking.

So they'd be sitting at the computer reading the music log and deciding what to say in their break immediately after. They tell the computer to start recording, and they say B96 At Night. Britney Spears with Toxic. Speaking of toxic, did you see the latest Instagram post from Meghan Markle? Yeah, more drama from the Dutchess of Sussex. Find out more at B96.com or on the B96 app!

Do that 30 times and you've got a show. Then you change gears to prepare a similar show, for a different market with different music.

As far as "I've got my tea and my old records" - well, he almost certainly doesn't have records playing in studio. That's probably just a shtick based on what he thinks his listeners expect radio DJs do.

For what a DJ *used* to do before computer automation took away the need to manage dozens of records and carts each hour, see tall_guy's thread from earlier this week about the worst music to listen to as a DJ.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
As far as "I've got my tea and my old records" - well, he almost certainly doesn't have records playing in studio. That's probably just a shtick based on what he thinks his listeners expect radio DJs do.
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His DJs are even in different cities. Many of them will talk about their records, even saying they have to go back on the shelf. But it's not possible.
 
It depends on which station you're talking about. Some still actually do have live DJs on the air, although I bet his use of the term "old records" was using "records" to refer to any sound recordings of music, not necessarily actual vinyl records.
 
There is actually a video that someone posted a link too which shows one of the America's Best Music DJs showing what he actually does.

I'm not sure how to find it, but maybe someone else does. It would likely be in a topic under standards,
 


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