Sleepless in Florida

At 9:03 a.m. on Monday, January 17, David J. Plotkin settled into the broadcast booth at Rollins College's WPRK-FM and cued up "Gonna Fly Now," the theme from the movie Rocky. The 25-year-old college staff member did not leave the station until he had unofficially surpassed a Swiss broadcaster's Guinness world record for the longest nonstop radio broadcast.

That was at 11:03 p.m. that Friday, or 110 hours later.

"They say the worst thing for a DJ is for the next DJ not to show

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