People still dream of being DJs, even though there are technically no longer any discs to jockey.
WUTC-FM (88.1), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus radio station and Chattanooga’s NPR affiliate, has a popular promotion called “DJ for an Hour.”
For a $288 donation, $24 a month for a year, WUTC provides an hour of air time to amateur DJs. The guest radio hosts pick a playlist and provide DJ-style commentary between songs.
The promotion has been on pause for months because of COVID-19, but station officials say they hope to revive the DJ for an Hour shows early next year.
Haley Solomon, a producer and radio host at WUTC, said that for a lot of listeners the promotion is a bucket list item.