jockless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without a live disc jockey or host.
Example Sentences
- "Then CBS fired them outright this summer as part of a national purge. The station now features a bland, jockless eighties-heavy playlist."
- "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."
- "When 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."