I updated the information & links for the Convention – they are top right on computers, above Recent Comments. They are at the bottom on phones – if you hit the down arrow and then scroll up, you will find them above Recent Comments.
I’ve copied it here so you will know what to look for.
Democratic Convention 2020
Schedules
Simplified Convention Schedule
Official DNC ScheduleIn Case You Missed It
Democratic Convention, Day 1Recommended Live Streams
Official Convention Stream
YouTube
Crooked Media Includes Pre-Show
C-SPAN
Joe Biden YouTube ChannelAnnoying Live Streams
PBS News hour (commentary)
MSNBC (permanent chyron/cluttered/cut off final song)Radio
C-SPAN Radio app
C-SPAN Radio Live StreamSirius XM Info
Sirius XM (channel 132, IIRC)
90.1 FM in the D.C./Baltimore areaTV Streaming Services
Amazon Prime: search “DNC”
Apple TV: search “DNC”
Roku: search “DNC”
Amazon Fire: search “DNC”Miscellaneous
ATT U-verse has a DNCTV channel (channel 1212 in Austin)Click here for more info on how to Watch (scroll down at link for instructions):
If you know of other good ways to catch the convention – video, radio, podcasts, TV, please add them to the comments.
Let us know if something on the list had interruptions for blah-blah-blah talking heads last night, so we can make that clear.
Otherwise, open thread.
Update: I updated the list up top and on the side.
Baud
MSNBC had minimal, short interruptions last night, but there is a permanent chyron at the bottom on the screen.
Barbara
I watched the official Democrat Party streaming site and had no complaints, and loved the lack of interruption. Of course if I wanted to run to the bathroom or get a snack I might miss something.
WaterGirl
@Baud: updated, thank you!
Mike in NC
Hopefully the names Paul Manafort and Roger Stone get the mention they deserve tonight, tomorrow night, and Thursday now that the Senate Intel report on 2016 Russian collusion is out.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: Democrat Party, not Democratic. ouch! :-)
Barbara
@WaterGirl: Oh, that was totally an oversight. Of course.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: I knew that.
cain
Number of Republicans weighed in on CSPAN last night and it seems having Kasich gave them the cover they needed to start voting for Joe.
West of the Cascades
Washington Post’s stream was pretty good – no interruptions (that I remember!), and some pre- and post- commentary that was sometimes worth listening to.
Gin & Tonic
I listen to it via the fillings in my teeth. That way it’s always with me.
West of the Cascades
That’s what your phone is for!
WaterGirl
@West of the Cascades: Great! do you have a link?
Baud
I don’t know if this was MSNBC or the DNC feed, but on MSNBC, they would sometimes reduce the video size to put on bio information about a speaker. It usually stayed up for less than a minute.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Was that annoying? I would think it might be.
Also, with 17 people in less than an hour, that’s only 3 minutes apiece at best, assuming they all get the same amount of time, which they won’t.
Wondering if that would be helpful with a lot of folks we might not recognize, or annoying because something will be up on the screen nearly all the time?
WaterGirl
@Baud: That was definitely not happening on the DNC feed.
dnfree
PBS had entirely too much of Judy Woodruff explaining things that didn’t need explanation and interviewing people who didn’t need to be interviewed.
SkyBluePink
WaterGirl-
Thank you – you go above and beyond in compiling and providing quick access to items of interest.
The ease and simplicity is greatly appreciated.
MazeDancer
Watched on Amazon Prime last night. Good picture quality, no commentary or chyrons, no ads. And you got Billy Porter and Stephen Stills.
Just search “DNC”, there it is.
If you record MSNBC starting T 11 you can get the nice 3-lady line-up talking, ,too.
Ken
@cain: Any excuse they need is fine. I won’t even complain – well, not to their face – that they’ve seen the impeachment evidence, the covid response, the indictments and convictions, and so forth, but they still need Kasich’s permission to vote against him?
MazeDancer
mrmoshpotato
@cain: Did C-SPAN have call-in ridiculousness at times?
WaterGirl
@dnfree: Was that before, after, or during? For PBS interviewing people.
Before and after we can just not watch, but during would suck.
WaterGirl
@SkyBluePink: You are very welcome!
Full-service blog, and all that. :-)
narya
I really don’t watch these things . . . I just can’t. And it’s not like it’s gonna change my vote in any way. Also too: VOLUME 5!!11!!! I mean, not a surprise, exactly, but dang. I kinda wish the timing had been better–say, right AFTER the Rethug convention–but I’ll take it. The mind, it is boggled.
mrmoshpotato
@dnfree:
SO TRUE! I liked Joe Biden’s YouTube channel coverage much more.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Barbara:
“Democrat Party.” ??
Baud
@WaterGirl: It was the most annoying part of the night. I have Amazon Prime, so I might try that tonight.
Morzer
@cain:
“If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
– Winston Churchill
Miss Bianca
Thank you, WaterGirl!
I know people joke about this being a “full service blog”, but it really, really IS now!
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: During. Judy would have interviews between some speakers. Including David Fucking Brooks if I heard correctly. I’d changed over to Biden’s YouTube before he spewed his garbage on my TV.
MazeDancer
DNC ratings were at Oscar levels.
And that was just night 1.
So happy.
Chyron HR
@cain:
B-b-but he’s a REPUBLICAN! They should have had Nina Turner at the convention vowing not to vote for Biden!
WereBear
@cain: I will be interested in how many when it’s all done.
Ken
OK, that’s a good reason to watch it live. Drive up the numbers and hope the ones for the Republican convention are lower, so it triggers a tantrum.
Well, we are all kind of stuck in the house. And I hope people are remembering why.
WaterGirl
@narya: Last night was really unlike any other event I’ve seen. Really nicely done. Nothing like any other convention, in a good way.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Still trying to figure out whether that was during the convention? Or part of the before or after coverage?
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I watched CSPAN and they had the call-in at the tail end.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
The “How to Watch” link up top is at the Democratic Convention website, demconvention.com/watch-the-convention/
I found that worked very well last night, on both laptop and iPhone. And no commentary, cutaways, or chyrons.
narya
@WaterGirl: Hunh. Okay, maybe I”ll take a peek. I think part of it is that, in general I tend to read transcripts of things rather than listen; I don’t do audiobooks, either, so I suspect it has to do with how I absorb info. But hey, if it drives up ratings, I’ll take one for the team.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: I just hate when I want to watch some big event and I can’t figure out how to get to it until it’s 15 minutes in. I figure we don’t need any more stress. So this way, we all get the best experience. :-)
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Let’s see what’s behind comment 30! A NEW CAR! Wait, no.
Baud
@MazeDancer:
Yeah, but how many were boaters?
Barbara
@narya: I like to see rising Dems speak — people I have heard of but don’t know much about. Seeing so many women made my heart sing.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Pretty amazing line up of speakers every night. I notice that Bill Clinton is tonight, along with both Carters, AOC (is that the infamous 60-second slot?), Chuck Schumer, John Kerry and other familiar names. Tomorrow we have Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and President Obama.
It’s so heartwarming to realize just how many great people we have on our side. You could arguably drop any one of those convention speakers into the hot seat in the Oval Office and they’d pull together a great team and do a creditable job. But I wouldn’t trust any Republican at the national level to watch my dog for the weekend.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: 25 million Dump Dense flags tuned in! And they were all on one Plagueapalooza cruise ship!
lamh36
I heart NMFTG Hilary Clinton!
twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1295818174752006147
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@MazeDancer: Digital media has made it a lot easier to get accurate counts on these things and not rely on self-reporting like the Nielsen ratings. They’re probably also keeping track of whether or not you cut away to surf other sites or check your email. And if you have Alexa, they’re also monitoring your conversation and how many potty breaks you take.
Not that I’m paranoid or anything. Just don’t see the point in bugging my own house just so I can talk to my speaker.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Are those hats coming back? I am not a summer hat person, if I must I would prefer a Panama.
WaterGirl
Okay, we now have Recommended Live Streams and Annoying Live Streams.
Take that, MSNBC and PBS. We don’t want your blather.
Betty Cracker
I thought the MSNBC coverage was good. Few interruptions and what there were seemed rational. I like the chemistry of Joy, Nicolle and Rachel and hope they’ll be anchoring again tonight.
My long-suffering husband slept through most of it. Poor guy. He’ll vote the straight Dem ticket so doesn’t understand the fascination. Good thing I have y’all to talk to about it.
Another of my arcane fascinations: campaign messaging. I did an online survey with a burner email to get Trump campaign emails, and the tone between Trump campaign outreach and Biden’s messaging is…like two different species. I’d almost say the Trump stuff is in Klingon (original series), but that would be a grave injustice to Klingons since they had honor. It’s just so aggro! Example:
It’s always doomy and whiny like that. Never anything upbeat or uplifting. All rage, all the time. Not surprising, but striking nonetheless.
zhena gogolia
I liked CSpan.
pamelabrown53
I was fine watching MSNBC until the very end when they cut coverage from the Stephen Stills/Billy Porter song so Brian Williams could begin his bloviating.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
I went to YouTube to see Billy Porter and Stephen Stills do “For What It’s Worth.” I just loved the video but made the mistake of looking at the comments. They seem to have emptied out all the bars in Ekaterinburg to get people to spout vitriol about a little music video.
WaterGirl
Did any of the options cut out before the end of the musical number last night?
That would have bothered me, if it happened.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: I really don’t understand why people avoid it.
zhena gogolia
@pamelabrown53:
Go see it on YouTube, it’s great. But don’t look at the comments.
lamh36
Ahead of her speech tonight, Dr Jill has bee posting old pics of her and Joe!
dnfree
@WaterGirl: During. Like the nurse with the cute cookie smock—we saw a quick picture of her and didn’t hear what she had to say. Some of the interviewees were worthwhile, but they came in place of seeing the convention.
it’s my opinion that Judy should hang it up. She had several mistakes and it’s gotten to where her questions aren’t as sharp. We like PBS Newshour when someone younger hosts.
Morzer
@Betty Cracker:
Trumpashenko is true to his Soviet roots.
Baud
@lamh36: I’m so waiting for her speech. I’m actually afraid I’ll be disappointed because she’ll be mature and put the good of the nation above what I want her to say.
mrmoshpotato
@lamh36: ♥️♥️♥️ I’m so eager for what she’ll have to say tomorrow night! Maybe she’ll just sigh and glare into the camera judgingly for her entire segment, and I’d be perfectly fine with that too!
Barbara
@Betty Cracker: I don’t know how they found me but find me they did. Today, they want to know who Trump should pardon next — Michael Flynn, Edward Snowden, everyone else convicted in the Mueller probe — or someone else. They also want to know my opinion of who did the worst job of responding to rising violence in America — the mayors of Seattle, Chicago or Portland — or someone else. Maybe I should respond to that one?
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I’ll admit, I enjoy it. It’s like the only time we get to speak to ourselves about ourselves on a national stage without a bunch of asshole outsiders chiming in with their views.
mrmoshpotato
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: “Alexa, order all the popcorn!”
“Ok, but first Jeff needs to know if you enjoyed taking that big dump during Michelle Obama’s speech.”
HumboldtBlue
The online convention was much easier to watch and much more enjoyable to watch than a normal convention.
It had great pace, varied and interesting people speaking in personal terms and it moved quickly without any interruptions.
The best part was there were no interruptions by talking heads spewing bullshit.
pamelabrown53
@zhena gogolia:
Thanks. Already watched it. My entire life, I’ve either been exposed to or watched gavel to gavel coverage of Dem. conventions. Can’t seem to break the habit at this late date!
WaterGirl
@dnfree: Thanks for all the info. I now have PBS on the annoying list, not the recommended list.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Wow. How is that a real campaign email? It reads like bad farce!
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Biden’s YouTube ran Stills/Porter to the end, then had a highlight montage of Night 1.
ETA – and then a closing prayer.
West of the Cascades
@WaterGirl: It came up as an embedded stream, front and center at the http://www.washingtonpost.com website at about 8 pm Eastern Time (an hour before the “live” convention started) – looking at my browser history, it doesn’t seem to have had a unique URL.
Betty Cracker
@mrmoshpotato: It’s not even the worst, just the most recent! The ones from Uday and Qusay are the worst. One actually said something like “my father was very disappointed not to see your name on the PATRIOT donor list but said to give you another chance.” For real — it was that bonkers.
dnfree
@Barbara: don’t respond. They don’t even read what you say. They just look to see if there’s a check or credit card number. If you respond at all you get in the category of people who respond and might someday send money. It’s not worth the aggravation.
LuciaMia
@Betty Cracker: Saw the Trump ad on Youtube and the title is like ‘Democrats destroyed the cities, dont let Biden do the same to America!’
I thought New York, Atlanta, Minneapolis, etc. WERE part of America. Silly me.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Now I have to go find that woman’s Tiktok who reads the Dump campaign texts with appropriate anger!
“WHY HAVEN’T YOU RESPONDED YET?!”
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I won’t have an Alexa or anything like that in my house. Which is funny, because I am normally electronic girl. But I don’t believe for a second that it’s not listening all the time.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato:
Great! That’s exactly what they had on CSPAN and on the Crooked Media stream. And I’m sure on the DNC official site. That’s good to know.
WaterGirl
@West of the Cascades: Thanks! I assume no talking heads, no chyron at the bottom, not bloviators and they didn’t cut out before the musical number was done?
LuciaMia
@WaterGirl: Well, if thats true they have to be monumentally bored with my output.
schrodingers_cat
Kamala Harris is the new Barack Obama
Too socialist and a neoliberal shill all at once. Both ends of the horseshoe hate her, here and in India. FWIW I think that’s a win-win!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Obama did pretty good. I’ll take it.
West of the Cascades
@WaterGirl: The talking heads were before and after the two-hour live convention coverage, but not during – no chryon, and they didn’t cut back to the their WaPo pundits until the musical number was done. It was sort of interesting afterward to hear some of their editorial page writers who I normally only read in “print” (or what passes for it on the internet).
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue:
Bingo. They do not add value. Judy Woodruff should get the memo.
It would be great to forego in person conventions (for the masses and delegates, if not the business and platform meetings) in the future. It’s a lot of money that can be better spent.
Baud
@Elizabelle: I thought last night was nicely done, but I wonder if people will like the format when it’s not a novelty.
Betty Cracker
@mrmoshpotato: That girl was hilarious! I wish she and Sarah Cooper would team up for a special.
Ken
We’re not the intended audience. It’s the political equivalent of Nigerian prince email, except instead of using deliberate misspelling to select people ignorant enough to send money, they’re using the Fox-distributed keywords and memes. (Also to select people who will give money.)
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I am thinking about writing my thoughts about KH being the VP pick. I will share a link here if you are interested. I have been collecting reactions to her especially from other people of Indian heritage.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Definitely share if you write it. Sounds interesting.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: I do not like both-sidery Judy at all. And the giggle sisters are rather annoying too. Was Jowls of Concern there too?
WaterGirl
@West of the Cascades: I appreciate the report. That definitely goes under “Recommended Live Streams” and not “Annoying Live Streams”. :-)
WaterGirl
@Baud: I will never get tired of an event like this where talking heads don’t get to bloviate and spoil the event.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: I bet the delegates like the in person stuff. In some ways it is a reward for all the work they put in during the years. In many ways, the Conventions are for the participants not the spectators.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker:
Um, I’m OK with that.
Baud
@WaterGirl: Agreed on that part. Even if the Dems go back to the traditional live format, however, there’s not reason not to stream and get around the pundits. The one thing I think the Dems would have to do, however, is not have dead time in between speeches. If someone isn’t speaking on stage, have a video or a musical number playing.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe you’ll be featured in the next Trump fundraising email.
WaterGirl
I’m gonna put in a plug here for the upcoming thread about Tom’s latest book, that was released today. The thread is tonight at 6:15.
With all the convention stuff, I don’t want it to get lost in the shuffle.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Does that mean I can pick up a copy at the bookstore on my way home from work?
WaterGirl
@Baud: Agree with all of what you said. The more the both-sides talking heads can be cut out of the deal, the better for all of us. Most of them have lost the plot, and they are a pox on all of us.
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: I think you’re right. In my old county-level party organization, everyone was keen to go to the state convention — there was fierce competition for the slots. I thought it sounded as hellish as a business conference, so I wasn’t among the competitors.
Alison Rose
@lamh36: THE BEST.
James E Powell
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was a child when I learned they were actually made in Ecuador. I’ve had trust issues ever since.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I suspect it does!
I ordered a copy for BG in June, and
it’s supposed to arrive todayAmazon says it’s out for delivery. Subaru Diane ordered an ebook, and she has it in her hot little hands already.There’s been a lot of buzz about his book, in terms of great reviews from all the right peeps, and he got some great news about the book that we’ll share on the thread.
So yeah, I think you can almost certainly pick it up on the way home.
SiubhanDuinne
@narya:
The timing of the conventions depends on which party holds the WH in an election year. As far as I’m aware*, the party out of office always goes first.
*I should probably check this out before declaring it definitively, but I’m busy reading Tom’s book and can’t be arsed to wikigoogle it.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I predict that they’re making it into a Broadway musical like Hamilton.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: I was nominated by the chair of the Town committee and unanimously voted by the caucus to go to the town convention, but alas due COVID there was no convention. I has a sad.
James E Powell
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I also want the taco trucks!
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker:
Yep. I was recruited as a delegate one year, and I said “yes, as long as I don’t have to go to the convention.”
WaterGirl
@James E Powell: We all want the taco trucks. Now I’m hungry, dammit.
Tim C.
So kinda random, Like our illustrious blog-host, I play MMO games. right now I’m in a Star Wars: The Old Republic kick and without getting into the game, like a lot of MMOs, there’s a General Chat that is often a “Hive of Scum and Villany.” A couple nights ago, some idiot was spamming, “Trump 2020” over and over again and trying to provoke reactions. Some genius just started replying every time he did the Trump line with “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!” It was… satisfying.
This has no bearing or predictive outcome of course, but it was good to see.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: Sometimes we have to remember that our preferences as viewers and spectators shouldn’t necessarily be paramount.
Baud
@James E Powell: Oh, I hope Hillary reminds America about the taco trucks tomorrow.
Maybe the taco trucks can have a parade to counter the boaters?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Or have multiple podia, when one person’s done switch to the other. Not having the breaks really helps move things along and cuts down on the useless pundit babble.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Will they buy my pictures, become patrons?
Aleta
@WaterGirl: I commented (earlier thread) that we watched the first bit of the convention last night on TV on PBS and it seemed edited, with some of the videos and real people cut out and replaced by commentators. Some R talking points.
I just looked at your link to PBS streaming, and it’s not the same as what we saw on TV. Quick look, but it appears to be the whole convention, presented straight.
I don’t know if my comment was the reason for putting the link to the PBS streaming under “Annoying” “(commentators)” ? The link above seems fine–I could be wrong about it but I don’t see the annoying commentators of the TV show.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@James E Powell: I have King Taco close by, so I’m good there.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think it was David Corn — but I could be mistaken — who was quite sad to not be at a convention this week. He said it’s a great way to network meet with fellow journos and just enjoying the traditional setting and missing out on it this year was very palpable.
Aleta
@WaterGirl: Oh wait… Now I see you mentioned moving it in response to another comment.
Anyway, as far as I can tell, the stream at your link above doesn’t have the TV-version commentators on it. That stream I would watch, no complaint.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@WaterGirl: I got my copy today in the mail, via the Independent Bookstores link you posted a few days ago.
I’m not quite sure how they did that if the release date was today, with mail slowdowns and everything. I assume Obama’s time machine was involved.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: I couldn’t give a fuck about the journalists and their fun, but the party’s foot soldiers deserve a treat.
Tazj
@Mike in NC: I hope they get mentioned too. The report bugs the hell out of me. I know it bothers conservatives too but for entirely different reasons. The few I check in on had no mention of the report today, none at all, but they shouted from the roof tops about that one government employee who changed part of an email. “See it was a hoax all along!” They’ve moved on to calling Democrats conspiracy theorists for complaining about the post office.
WaterGirl
@Aleta: Multiple people in this thread commented on the interviewing and bloviating that went on at PBS. So it wasn’t you.
I guess I don’t know if they were talking about TV or streaming.
UncleEbeneezer
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Heh, I just said to my wife “This might be a King Taco delivery night” since it’s 106 degrees and we won’t want to have to turn on the oven/stove. Also, since I’ll be teaching tennis lessons for a few hours in the evening when it will still be over 100 degrees. Ugh…
WaterGirl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Oh yay! I imagine all the bookstores had it ahead of time, but it couldn’t be in the hands of people who purchased it until today.
J R in WV
Four years ago we watched the DNC party with great interest, and I saw Andrea Mitchell Greenspan tell us lies about what we had just watched speakers say.
I couldn’t believe my eyes/ears, we watched and heard what the speaker said, and then Ms Mitchell Greenspan told us our eyes and ears were lying to us. Will never trust that ancient crone to tell anyone the truth about anything, ever again.
We watched MSNBC’s stream, and during the part we watched, there was about 180 seconds of Rachael Maddow telling us what was coming up, tiny inserts between actual speakers or events on stage. Not a bother to us, esp. compared to their shitty coverage of the DNC in Philly last election cycle. Which was terrible!!!
trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
The XBox Forza racing game has the Long Beach GP track, which prominently features King Taco signs. I always wondered….
NotMax
Just went to look at the Sirius site and the channel for C-SPAN Radio is listed there as channel 455. So you might please change that (the IIRC was my stipulating If I Recall Correctly, anyway – which as it turned out I didn’t).
Also might want to consider adding Telemundo (Sirius channel 469) and/or channel 795 (CNN en Español).
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
As I have my browser tamped down, have never once seen ads or comments on YouTube. If it wasn’t for folks here occasionally mentioning them I wouldn’t know they exist, a situation am 100% fine with.
;)
J R in WV
@NotMax:
This is mostly true for us as well, once in a great while one will sneak through, only to be deleted by closing the YouTube tab opening with an ad. I hates me some ads on what is ostensibly a non-commercial site… not many of those around really~!~
Aleta
@WaterGirl: I found an explanation.
According to this, their digital livestream is the full convention and is separate from Judy Woodruff, who was anchoring for PBS’s television Newshour with “reports from the floor, podium and outside the venue.” David Brooks and another dreadful guy were among the jerk commentators with her last night. We were all complaining about Woodfuff’s show, not the livestream.
WaterGirl
@Aleta: Ah. I will make an adjustment. thanks for clarifying!
Michael
@Baud: In NYC it’s Halal food trucks on every block, only most of them are really trailers.
Michael
@schrodingers_cat: It’s well past time for PBS to send her out to pasture and revamp the whole Evening News show.