What is National Disc Jockey Day?
Each year, National Disc Jockey Day honors the DJs who play the music and spinning the records. On January 20th, the observance takes place every year.
A disc jockey, or DJ for short, is a person who plays recorded music, whether on the radio or at a club or an event.
The first disc jockey was an experiment on the airwaves. 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 was one of the first people to fly over the airwaves before the word disc jockey even existed.
Radio broadcasters around the country are soon replicating what started as an experiment by the Garden City Bank Building, where the college was located in San Fernando, California, was being replicated. Newby's first broadcasting of his news, music, and entertainment live on television.
Walter Winchell, a radio analyst, didn't coined the term disc jockey until 25 years ago.
