What is National Disc Jockey Day?
Each year National Disc Jockey Day honors the DJs who play the music and spinning the records. Every year on January 20th, the observance takes place.
A disc jockey, or DJ for short, is a person who plays music on the radio or at a club or festival.
The first disc jockey was an experiment on the airwaves. www.disco.com Ray Newby, sixteen-year-old Ray Newby was a student under the guidance of Charles "Doc" Herrold at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless in 1909. He had the first records over the airwaves before the word disc jockey even existed.
What started off as an experiment from the Garden City Bank Building, where the college was located in San Fernando, California, was soon being replicated by radio broadcasters around the country. Initially, Newby's main show was broadcasting his news, music, and entertainment live.
Walter Winchell, a radio commentator, didn't coined the term disc jockey until 25 years ago.
