For chattering glibly, reading endless commercials and playing records, the average disc jockey makes about $7,000 a year. U.S. radio employs thousands of them (e.g., Los Angeles has 30 disc jockeys).

The disc jockey’s turntable began to look like radio’s wheel of fortune and by ... an armful of records and sponsors, and going to work at fortune’s wheel. A few: ex-Bandleader Tommy Dorsey ...

If they wanted me to work until 3 a.m. I did that ... Ken Deutsch, a longtime Radio World contributor who refers to himself in the third person, is a former radio disc jockey, program director, public ...

For his work at Los Angeles's KFWB radio station in 1965 ... He was also one of the select few disc jockeys providing input in the 1960s for the Gavin Report's Top 40 list, which helped stations ...

The first AI-generated radio DJ, "AI Ashley," has launched in Portland. It's generated by RadioGPT and originates from the voice of a real disc jockey. NBC News' Noah Pransky talks to the content ...

Radio personality Johnny “The Duke” Allen, who helped propel hip-hop into mainstream music and started a disc jockey school during ... a DJ who taught Allen how to work the equipment at ...

PALATINE (AP) — If you're scanning the FM radio dial on a Tuesday night and you suddenly feel relaxed, you might be listening to Mr. Al. "Turn it up and cool it down," says the disc jockey in a ...