The term 'DJ' or disc jockey has changed over the years but the first disc jockey was an experiment on the airwaves. 

In 1909, a sixteen-year-old Ray Newby was a student who worked under the supervision of Charles Herrold at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless. Newby played the first records over the airwaves before the word disc jockey even existed.

What began as an experiment from the top of a bank building in San Fernando, California was soon being replicated by radio broadcasters across the country. Prior to Charles Herold and Ray's experiment, news, music and entertainment was primarily broadcast live and 25 years later, Walter Winchell coined the term “disc jockey”.

 

 

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