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Presidential Debates
The
The Commission on Presidential
Debates (CPD) was established in 1987. You can read the complete history of the debates
HERE on the CPD website.
The website also has complete transcripts of many of the debates and even some
videos.
Laurence Estrin has been the audio and
communications consultant for debates during six presidential election years.
The first was on October 6,
1976 at the
Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
for the CBS pool. He has been a consultant with
the CPD since their beginning.
Pete Erskine has worked on debates in 1988,
1992, 1996 and now, in 2004, was in charge of the engineering for the
communications systems, Riedel Digital intercom programming, the infamous timer buzzer and operated the backup audio console.
Tom
Nicks was the FOH engineer for Coral Gables, Cleveland and Tempe, and Michael MacDonald
was FOH for the Town meeting in St. Louis. Russell Emery was the Media
center engineer as well as in charge of the timing lights, and Kelly Epperson was the
equipment supervisor from On Stage Audio.
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2004 Presidential
Debate Audio system - This is a single line drawing of the as-built
sound system used on the 3 Presidential and one Vice-presidential debates.
They were held in the months of September and October 2004 in Coral
Gables, FL, Cleveland, OH, St. Louis, MO and Tempe AZ.
Here is a 1
Mb high detail PDF
Right click to download:
This PDF has
active links to all the key equipment manufacturers and suppliers.
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Photo Album - Here are some pictures from
our years of doing the debates |
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2004 Presidential
Debate Intercom programming - This PDF shows some of the basics in
the programming of the Buzzer control and the media pool feed mute control
which are diagrammed in the above one-line drawing. The two methods
accomplish the same function in different ways. These methods
force each to a different default if the station goes down or gets
disconnected. The buzzer is off and the pool feed is on.
Here
is a .5 mb PDF
Right click to download
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Riedel Node configuration
(click here for a full listing PDF) - port
assignments for the Tempe, AZ debates. The port numbering is not
standard. I number each port with the node number (100's) and port
number for that node (1-32). Keeps everything in order and simple. |
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