jockless

English

Adjective

jockless (not comparable)

1. (radio) Without a live disc jockey or host.
   • 2006, Chicago, volume 55, numbers 10-12, page 30:

     Then CBS fired them outright this summer as part of a national purge. The station now features a bland, jockless eighties-heavy playlist.

   • 2006, Marjorie Eberts, Careers for Culture Lovers & Other Artsy Types, page 85:

     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.

   • 2014, John Allen HEndricks, Keith's Radio Station: Broadcast, Satellite, and Internet:

     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.