Meanings
- not comparablebroadcastingWithout a live disc jockey or host.
Then CBS fired them outright this summer as part of a national purge. The station now features a bland, jockless eighties-heavy playlist.
2006, Chicago, volume 55, numbers 10-12, page 302 more examples
Unfortunately, there is now a trend for large station conglomerates to run “jockless” stations—music preprogrammed and run by computer with only a single person providing station-imaging announcements.
2006, Marjorie Eberts, Careers for Culture Lovers & Other Artsy Types, page 85When a station voice-tracks or employs a jukebox format like Jack or Bob or John or any of the dozen or so jockless formats now popular in the industry, it strips the one thing that radio has over the alternative digital formats... it strips away the personality.
2014, John Allen HEndricks, Keith's Radio Station: Broadcast, Satellite, and Internet
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