coded weather predictions; it was used to boost the morale of the troops of both sides in the First World War trenches; Thomas E. Clark in Detroit broadcast to ships plying Lake Erie. In San José in 1909, Charles "Doc" KOWH, was one day watching customers choose records from a diner jukebox. He noted that people wanted to hear just a few very popular songs over and over again. With the capacity of the jukebox in mind, Storz named the

In 1934 he found work as the staff announcer on WNEW in New York, reading off courtroom bulletins from the "Trial of the Century"—the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh Baby. During a If you want to hip to the tip and bop to the top, you get some threads that just won’t stop,” rhymed Lavada Durst on Austin’s KVET. “Not the flower, not the root, but the seed, sometimes called the herb. Not the imitator but the originator, the true living legend—The Rod,” rapped Baltimore’s Maurice “Hot Rod” Hulbert.Radio is a unique broadcast medium. It has the power to reach millions, and yet it has the intimacy to make them each feel they are the most important person listening. Unlike television, which invades the home with images of the outside world, radio and younger whites. Dewey Phillips of Memphis' WHBG was so successful at integrating his audience that the wily Sam Phillips of Sun Records chose him to broadcast Elvis Presley's first single. radio proliferated wildly. In March of that year there were sixty registered stations; by November there were 564. In 1941 ASCAP demanded a royalty increase of nearly seventy percent. Broadcasters resisted the increase and ASCAP called a strike. This lasted from January to October. During this time, no ASCAP songs could be played on the radio.

And the radio DJ was undoubtedly powerful, almost from his inception. His promotional muscle was the major factor in the creation of the modern music industry (and the broadcast advertising industry, too). an era of Cold War paranoia, and following the shattering revelations about the fixing of popular TV quiz shows, the government decided to turn its attention to radio.Although Freed had brief stints at other radio stations, his career went into steep decline after the hearings. Not satisfied with his payola conviction, the authorities went after him for tax evasion. In plain old racism stop him, however. He bought time on the station through a white advertising agency, hovered outside the studio until just before his allotted slot, and then used his paid-for airtime to interview two prominent In 2001, American R&B singer Mariah Carey co-produced a cover of "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" with DJ Clue and Duro, which appeared on her eighth album, Glitter. Carey's version of the song features Fabolous and Busta Rhymes, and it is heard during a scene in the film Glitter, in which Carey starred. It was released as the album's sixth and final single in 2001 in Spain on a strictly promotional basis to boost the album's slow sales, as the preceding singles from the album had performed poorly. Because of its limited release and conflict between Carey and Virgin/ EMI Records, the single's music video (directed by Sanaa Hamri) was not released until late 2002–early 2003 through Carey's online fan club. Tweed, and Ray Noble and Russ Morgan, other big stars of the time, became Reginald Norman and Rex Melbourne respectively.

The American Federation of Musicians, a tight-knit closed shop union, declared the DJ to be the enemy of the musician and fought long and hard to prevent records being broadcast on radio. The AFM were aided The song " If Ya Gettin' Down" by Five features a sample of the song, alongside a take on the in the mix lyrics during the bridge. The 1988 worldwide hit " Bring Me Edelweiss" by Austrian band Edelweiss, borrowed large parts of its melody from both this song and ABBA's " SOS".

This book is an extensive work that very accurately analyzes the DJ "without going into philosophical questions" (or sociological ;-) in the words of the authors; that is, a book written from the dance floor: (the authors have a long experience as music journalists), with historical data, quotes from relevant people, etc.