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At Staples Center, speakers will wait their turn in green rooms beneath the stage, then enter to live music and high-tech lighting and face more than a dozen television cameras. Here’s a look at the podium and who is sitting where on the convention floor.
Arena fact sheet
* Number of delegates: 4,369
* Ratio of media to delegates: 3.5 to 1
* Number of days to convert Staples: 34
* Number of workers: 1,000
* Amount of TV cable used: 1.5 million feet
* Moving lights in overhead truss: 800
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Sources: Democratic National Committee, C-SPAN
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