The art of spinning discs will finally be consigned to BBC history as Radio 1 DJs become “hardware controllers” in a technological revolution.

The tricky business of cueing up “poptastic” sounds while engaging in banter will no longer trouble the station’s presenters as, from next year, all its music will be stored on a digital hard disk.

Does this indicate that British usage reflects a consensus about the distinction between ‘discs’ and ‘disks’ all readers will appreciate? In any case, here comes perhaps the saddest aspect of this change:

But the high-tech revolution will remove once and for all the possibility of a DJ placing a favourite track on continuous repeat or smashing an offensive record on air. Times of London

I wonder whether this would be news at all in the US or if it is a foregone development given the greater penetration of homogenized corporate playlists in US radio.