DJ sets mark with 110-hour stint on the air

WINTER PARK, Fla. – Dave Plotkin rocked around the clock – several times over.

The disc jockey at Rollins College’s WPRK-FM unofficially set a record Friday for the world’s longest continuous broadcast by a single DJ.

Plotkin, 25, took to the airwaves at 9 a.m. Monday and signed off at 11:03 p.m. Friday, a 110-hour span. A DJ in Switzerland lasted 105 hours in July 2002.

“Everthing I did, every facet of my life for the past five days, I was broadcasting on the radio with a wireless (microphone) or here in the studio,” Plotkin said Friday evening in the seconds before reaching Hour 106 and breaking the old record. “I miss the outside world.”

The event, planned for more than a year, raised $16,150 for the 52-year-old radio station.

It will take Guinness, keeper of the world’s records, four to six weeks to validate Plotkin’s feat.

Under Guinness’ rules, Plotkin had to speak at least once every 59 seconds. And there was no napping while “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” played: Songs could not be longer than six minutes.