{"id":2,"date":"2020-01-22T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-06-27T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:22:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2\" class=\"elementor elementor-2\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-29b425ff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"29b425ff\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-77757346\" data-id=\"77757346\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6adf23c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6adf23c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:coblocks\/row {\"columns\":2,\"layout\":\"66-33\",\"coblocks\":{\"id\":\"55141317562\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-row coblocks-row-55141317562\" data-columns=\"2\" data-layout=\"66-33\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-row__inner has-medium-gutter has-no-padding has-no-margin is-stacked-on-mobile\"><!-- wp:coblocks\/column {\"width\":\"60.00\",\"coblocks\":{\"id\":\"55141320246\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-column coblocks-column-55141320246\" style=\"width: 60.00%;\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-column__inner has-no-padding has-no-margin\"><!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:coblocks\/column --><!-- wp:coblocks\/column {\"width\":\"39.00\",\"coblocks\":{\"id\":\"55141320249\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-column coblocks-column-55141320249\" style=\"width: 39.00%;\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-column__inner has-no-padding has-no-margin\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":1} -->\n<h1>A History of Dedication<\/h1>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Red Dirt Communications opened its doors October 1996 and was on-site election night that November in Little Rock providing a satellite uplink for national news coverage of the presidential election. Early in 1997, Red Dirt worked its first of 13 Super Bowls (and counting); this all boasting a dual path, no restrictions analog satellite truck &#8211; state of the art, for the time.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 90s is when many of today\u2019s cable news channels got their start and the demand for live news grew exponentially. Red Dirt was at the forefront of the boom, covering an assortment of national news events including: The Timothy McVeigh Trial (Denver), World Series (Cleveland, OH and San Diego, CA) and flooding along the Mississippi River that devastated the Heartland.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As the demand for live news coverage grew, so did the demand for satellite bandwidth. Red Dirt purchased its first two digital encoders late in 1999 and pioneered the way to multi-path digital transmission in\u00a0<em>one<\/em>\u00a0truck.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This strong history of remote broadcast services equipped the Oklahoma based company to be on location at pivotal news events in the first decade of the 21st Century:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:list -->\n<ul>\n<li>Three Presidential elections (2000, 2004, 2008), and inaugurations the following years<\/li>\n<li>Super Bowl coverage<\/li>\n<li>Post 9\/11 in NYC<\/li>\n<li>Katrina and post Katrina in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Winter Olympics 2002, Salt Lake City<\/li>\n<li>Columbia shuttle loss in 2003<\/li>\n<li>NASA\u2019s \u201cReturn to Space\u201d &#8211; First launch of space shuttle, post Columbia in 2005 at Kennedy Space Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2013 Red Dirt will celebrate 17 years of providing the best in mobile satellite uplink, television broadcast, audio and video production, and internet streaming services to clients in Oklahoma and across the nation. Red Dirt founders, Nelson Durfey and Dennis Stacklin, are looking forward to many more years of providing the best in remote equipment and engineering broadcast services.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:coblocks\/row -->\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torrancephoto.com\/reddirt.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}