About
Alex Vaughan Mobile Entertainment is a Disc Jockey Entertainment company based in Dover, Delaware. This one-person company is owned and operated by Alex Vaughan who has a background in TV and radio as a technician, a radio DJ personality, commercial copy writer, commercial producer, and outside sales.
The company has two divisions:
- Entertainment Services which includes DJ, Karaoke and Game Services. Weddings and corporate celebrations are a specialty.
- Business Services which includes Edu-Tainment; a system that combines company education with customized trivia games help keep employee training fun. When a companies education points are combined with a fun activity like a team trivia contest, retention is higher and that translates to better profit margins for the company.
Alex began his professional Mobile DJ career as a member of the air staff of a small market radio station located in Downstate Delaware in the early 1980’s. He was the mid-day personality, assistant program director and music director. He was also one of the voice-over announcers for many of the commercials that aired on the station and he helped write some of the commercials there as well.
The station had a listener service called “Rent-A-Jock” which allowed listeners to call and “hire” one of the on-air DJs to come out and play music for their parties, picnics and social celebrations.
In the beginning it was almost purely a Public Relations tool for the station. They provided all the P.A. equipment, the copies of the “records” (before CDs were invented), while the on-air jocks provided the “talent”, equipment handling and transportation for each party. A small fee was charged to the listener, but the positive exposure that the station got from having the air staff and listeners meet and get to know each other was so great that the station let the staff keep the fees in exchange for their time and skills.
The demand grew quickly and soon the station didn’t have enough equipment or copies of the music to go around. The station jocks got permission to get their own P.A. systems and copies of the music and by the time Alex left that station in the late 1980’s, he had everything he needed to continue to offer his DJ services as a serious hobbyist. It was a profitable undertaking, but it burned Alex’s candle at both ends, so to speak, and it was hard to have much of a family life that way.
Alex and his wife decided to begin operating his “DJ hobby” as a full-time enterprise in early 1996 and have been operating it full-time ever since. They added Karaoke and Games to the entertainment side of the operation, and a limited list of business services including the Edu-tainment Services already noted, as well as voice-over services, commercial copy writing services, telephone on-hold messages.
Alex is president of the Delaware Association of Mobile Entertainers (DAME), a DJ trade group he helped form 3 years ago which serves the state of Delaware; He’s a member of a national trade group for DJs called the National Association of Mobile Entertainer’s (NAME); He’s a member of the Colonial Rotary Club of Dover, DE, and serves as the club’s program director; and he’s a member of the Central Delaware Chamber of Commerce and serves on their marketing committee.