My "local" disc covered all of New England, northern New Jersey and the entire eastern half of New York State.
A band played in front of the stadium steps, a local disc jockey fired up the crowd while they waited for the team buses to arrive.
Then, since the paper map showed my best bet was to leave New Jersey via Phillipsburg, I loaded my local disc and set that as my initial destination.
Travel upstairs to enter a dark, trendy lair of pulsating music, provided by either a local disc jockey or band of any imaginable uber-contemporary genre.
Disco had begun to dominate the marketplace — thanks in part to "Disco Lady" — and control of radio playlists was shifting from local disc jockeys to corporate consultants.
A statue of Lenin still looms over the town square — but on our last weekend it watched over, uncomfortably it seemed, a competition of local disc jockeys.
"Pond scum," is what a local disc jockey, J. C. Corcoran, generously refers to as the Metsies, a term that originated in 1985 and has been happily revived by the local fandom.
Although the venture was mostly unsuccessful, Newhart caught the attention of a local disc jockey, who provided him with an opportunity to perform comedic monologues on the radio and helped him land a recording contract with Warner Brothers.
Radio listeners want local disc jockeys to have more control over programming, and they oppose federal laws that encourage more consolidation among radio conglomerates, according to a recent survey conducted by the Future of Music Coalition, an artists rights group based in Washington.
With the new apps, users can get any of their playlists, photo albums or other files on their devices without taking up local disc space and without having to use wires to physically sync their files.
