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2008 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 seven 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, 2004 and in 2008, was again in charge of the engineering for the communications systems, Riedel Digital intercom programming, and operated the backup audio console. Michael Abbott was the FOH engineer for all
of the debates, Kelly Epperson was the TD and designed all the audio systems, Russell Emery was
A2 for Mics and in charge of the timing lights, Stan Hunter managed all the
installation of equipment, Shipley Landiss was the Media engineering
coordinator, Jamie Ransford was the
equipment supervisor from On Stage Audio, Steve Savanyu was the onsite
Audio/Technica rep and Steve Mendelsohn coordinated all of the RF, both inside
and outside the venues.
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