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Article: More couples program iPods for wedding music
- Article from:
- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2007
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Rich Wells is a disc jockey who has provided music for more than
600 weddings in Cincinnati since 1992. It has been a good business,
earning him an average of $650 for five hours of work.
But Mr. Wells sees a competitor on the horizon: iPods and other
digital music players. Instead of hiring DJs such as Mr. Wells, some
couples are choosing the tunes themselves. They are programming music
into iPods for their receptions and plugging the device into sound
systems so guests can dance to such wedding stalwarts as the "Chicken
Dance" and the "Macarena."
Some agencies that book DJs and audio rental companies sense a
business opportunity: They are renting iPods programmed with wedding
music and ...