Hmmm.... do I have a lot to say on this.. but what I have to say deserves a thread of it's own. I'll get to it later because I surely don't have time to talk about it now. I do have people that come to mind as favorites, but there are many things that just should not be done during a mixshow that people continue to do all the time, and why stations feel the need to hire dj's that they know are off beat more than average is beyond me.... but I'll get to all that later.
There should be a requirement for a dj to be at least a little above halfway decent at matching beats and knowing the true purpose of having bpm's before getting hired for any full time radio mix show. I find playing Lady Gaga's "just dance" at 130 bpm to make it fit with another song that's faster than that unacceptable, and even more so when the song is mixed off beat. Then, even worse if a certain part is poorly looped to create a bootlegged intro, and if we're going to sit here and try to use this off loop as an instrumental to blend over another song that is off beat during 80% of the 2 or 3 minutes the dj was trying to blend it, that deserves an immediate pink slip to whoever is doing this, regardless of whether or not the mix-show is done.
There should never be a time that a song gets off beat so much that it gets to the point where the beat starts matching again with a complete opposite off count!
I've even heard some on-air personalities express their unhappiness about a dj who was coming to fill in for another dj during their shift live on the air. I will not name any names, but I'll get to all this later. How he got by on so many stations without anyone terminating him for this long? I have no idea...