Russell Gordon - Principal
Russell Gordon has over 20 years of experience in broadcast television. His experience covers every aspect of production from scripting to shooting to broadcast. He founded Bluestreet Productions in 2006, a Washington DC based company specializing in live events. BSP provides producers, technical crews, sound systems, lighting, projection, broadcast studios and remote uplinks for the production and direction of live and recorded events and satellite transmissions.
Russell produced the satellite portion of Hillary Clinton’s 21 city live “Town Hall Meeting” on the eve of “Super Tuesday” 2008. This was the largest political via satellite town hall meeting to date. He also produced the satellite portion and technical staffing of Senator Clinton’s “Texas Sized Town Hall Meeting” held the night before the Texas – Ohio primaries 2008.
He was the chief producer for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 presidential campaign where he directed and coordinated the production of over 200 hours of satellite media tours and event uplinks across the country.
For the 2004 Democratic Convention, he was the production chief for the Democratic News Service and produced hundreds of satellite hours for Democratic officials over the four-day convention. Russell was part of the team that designed temporary television studios capable of producing three separate simultaneous uplinks at the convention and at each of the presidential and vice presidential debates. He was the field producer / director for Washington DC based media events for the Gore-Lieberman 2000 presidential campaign.
Prior to and during the campaign he was the senior editor at the United States Senate Democratic Communications Committee where he produced and edited news stories and policy videos for Democratic Senators to be fed on both local and national news.
He has directed major news press conferences for the Nation’s space program while working for NASA. Russell has been video editor and technical director for the National Air & Space Administration Headquarters in DC and television news director and editor for the Goddard Space Flight center in Maryland.
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