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What Do You Prefer-A Presenter or a Disc Jockey

 
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Mark Mayhew



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:53 pm    Post subject: What Do You Prefer-A Presenter or a Disc Jockey Reply with quote

On this board we often use either of the above to mean the same thing when posting messages on this board about the guys/girls presenting shows etc

But are they the same thing. In my opinion they are not.

For example Sarah Kennedy is a presenter rather than a DJ whilst Richard Allinson is a DJ in my book.

What do others think.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me the difference is their ability to make a show out of nothing. A DJ will play great music and react spontaneously to requests and listener interaction in a show having no unchangeable pre-defined content. It's always good to have a structure but who cares if it gets pulled this way and that way.

A presenter just reads stuff out and introduces records to a pre defined plan.

A show that uses a presenter has to have interesting content for people to tune in.

A show that uses a DJ has to have an interesting DJ for people to tune in.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't the term "DJ" a bit old-hat now? I picture the archetypal DJ being the pirate-radio "jock" riding the decks out there on the high seas and spinning them discs as the mood takes him. Somehow, the timeline-based touch-screen computer system in the studio doesn't evoke the same feel!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tim Smith classes himself as a broadcaster. Wossy is a broadcaster, not a DJ.

I could carry on and on. I would say a Disc Jokey are presenters on Radio One?

Mark yet again you bring up Sarah Kennedy. I understand you don't like her, but please could you stop attacking her in nearly every thread or post?

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Mark Mayhew



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark O-Kindly explain to me how I am attacking Sarah Kennedy is the opening note of this thread.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Mark yet again you bring up Sarah Kennedy. I understand you don't like her, but please could you stop attacking her in nearly every thread or post?


Doesn't read that way to me. The reference to SK in the opening post seems quite reasonable in the context. You're getting paranoid, Mark!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excuse, but what is this disc jockey? Is it a person who spins the records? you use records at the BBC still always? I do not believe!
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