Amazing fact: apparently the DNC convention was helmed from (Emmy winner) Glenn Weiss's living room

[kpete]

Amazing fact: apparently the DNC convention was helmed from (Emmy winner) Glenn Weiss's living room in Brentwood. He had pants on but no shoes.

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. That's amazing

[soothsayer]

2. Wow!

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. K & R with many thanks for an amazing job. N/T

[C_U_L8R]

4. That's what Democrats do. What a champion.

[CousinIT]

5. Wow. He and the planners, conceptualizers, DNC, etc. did a FABULOUS job

If they have Emmys for this sort of thing, Weiss and maybe others should receive one. It was an AMAZINGLY well-executed event.

Glenn Weiss:

Glenn Weiss is an American producer and director of television and live events. He has won 14 Emmy Awards and six Directors Guild of America awards as a director and producer for various awards shows and reality shows including the Tony Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, and Academy Awards.

. . .

Weiss started his career working at the Washington, D.C. bureau of CNN before becoming a producer and director at Fox affiliate WTTG. His first national credit was America's Most Wanted, followed by other shows including Studs, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Gladiators 2000, and talk shows hosted by Jane Pratt and Tempestt Bledsoe in the years since.

As of 2018, Weiss has won 14 Emmy Awards,[3] and, as of 2015, five Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement,[4] and has been nominated for Producers Guild of America Awards.[2]

Weiss has also directed numerous televised events, including 19 Tony Awards, 4 Academy Awards,[5] for which he has garnered three directing Primetime Emmys and has directed and produced Primetime Emmy Awards.[6] Other directing credits include the Kennedy Center Honors, CableACE Awards, Billboard Music Awards, BET Awards, Peter Pan Live!, The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Primetime Emmy Awards, Live from Lincoln Center, and the American Music Awards. Most recently he directed the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

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During the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 17, 2018, Weiss made headlines by proposing to long-time girlfriend Jan Svendsen during his acceptance speech for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for his work on that year's Academy Awards. He proposed by saying, "You wonder why I don’t like to call you my girlfriend? Because I want to call you my wife." The ring previously belonged to his mother, who had died two and a half weeks prior. The moment was widely shared on social media platforms Twitter and Instagram.[7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Weiss

[ms liberty]

8. Ahh, that was him. I remember that! n/t

[Laelth]

6. We hired the best.

And it showed.



-Laelth

[ms liberty]

7. I think he's probably the Emmy frontrunner for his category at this point n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

9. The takeaway: all that technology and it all still comes down to human logic and control.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. I was in broadcast TV for over 34 years and was at 2 national conventions

one Dem and one Rep doing live TV out of a sky box. This is simply jaw dropping.

Something like this used to take the facilities of an entire large market TV station and involve at least 25 or 30 people at a minimum. How tech has changed since I left the business is amazing.

Very impressive.

[hunter]

17. I wanted to be a television engineer when I was a kid.

I was studying for that my first two years of college, before I switched my major to biology.

That was back when a single Conrac studio monitor weighed about 200 pounds and cost a small fortune.

Hah, I found this video on youtube, it's nine minutes long but nostalgic for anyone who worked in the tech industries of the 'sixties or seventies:

A 19 inch studio monitor cost $5,000 in 1974. That's $26,000 in today's money.

A small town television station might have only one or two of these monitors. The rest of their monitors would have been black and white or lower quality consumer grade color monitors adapted for studio use.

By 'sixties or 'seventies technical standards, Glenn Weiss's home studio would be magical.

[Gothmog]

11. This man did an amazing job

[judesedit]

12. Why? Would shoes have helped him do a better job? Don't think so lol

Probably no shoes helped him do a great job. Feet had complete freedom. No crampy toes or tight laces to distract. Fabulous job, Glenn. Thank you so much. BIDEN/HARRIS2020!

[Hekate]

22. I think the comment was a lame joke on all the home Zoom users tuning in to their workplaces...

You know, who supposedly wear pajama bottoms with a white shirt.

Your observation is spot on.

[tavernier]

13. Of course I don't know

but if he is a Dem, he may have done it gratis, or much reduced fee.

[Hekate]

16. In your dreams. His skills are worth whatever he charges for them: look what he achieved. nt

[tavernier]

19. Oh I totally agree

And he should. I’m just thinking that a lot of ppl who wish to defeat Rump are pitching in whatever skills they have available.

[Hekate]

21. I bet he's not going to do the same for the other side, though. Maybe they can get some stalwart...

...with a hamster wheel.

[Brother Buzz]

14. Driving The Mighty Wurlitzer Into The Night, Baby!

[Hekate]

15. Superlative. I am overcome with admiration.

[EleanorR]

18. A shout out too to these folks from the Biden campaign who came up with some amazing content!

Link to tweet

[IcyPeas]

20. they even had a generator on the standby because

the weather was so hot there were some rolling blackouts. Thank Gawd that didn't happen!!!!

masterful work. sounds nerve wracking to me. Must've been like conducting an orchestra.