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A northwest Indiana disc jockey plans to be on the air for 187 hours in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for longest continuous radio broadcast by a single host.
The current record is held by an Italian DJ who lasted a total of 183 hours, or just over a week, in May 2009. Tom Berg of WKVI in Knox, Indiana hopes to extend that record to 187 hours. Knox is southeast of Valparaiso.
The attempt is scheduled to begin at 5:00 a.m. Monday, July 9. If all goes as planned, the record will be broken when the broadcast ends Monday, July 16 at midnight.
Berg has been in contact with Guinness World Record officials in London to find out the rules that need to be followed for the attempt to be official. One of the rules insists that 2 people other than Berg be in the building, to witness that he is actually going through with it. “Without help from the Kankakee Valley community, this attempt won't even get off the ground,” said Berg.
When asked why he wanted to attempt to break the record, Berg replied, "This is a record that needs to return to the U.S., and I'm just the DJ to do it.”
A northwest Indiana disc jockey plans to be on the air for 187 hours in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for longest continuous radio broadcast by a single host.
The current record is held by an Italian DJ who lasted a total of 183 hours, or just over a week, in May 2009. Tom Berg of WKVI in Knox, Indiana hopes to extend that record to 187 hours. Knox is southeast of Valparaiso.
The attempt is scheduled to begin at 5:00 a.m. Monday, July 9. If all goes as planned, the record will be broken when the broadcast ends Monday, July 16 at midnight.
Berg has been in contact with Guinness World Record officials in London to find out the rules that need to be followed for the attempt to be official. One of the rules insists that 2 people other than Berg be in the building, to witness that he is actually going through with it. “Without help from the Kankakee Valley community, this attempt won't even get off the ground,” said Berg.
When asked why he wanted to attempt to break the record, Berg replied, "This is a record that needs to return to the U.S., and I'm just the DJ to do it.”
