10 Burst results for "George R Brown Convention Center"
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"Podcast Gary parish Matt, norlander, now in a T-shirt. I shamed him. I shamed him into dressing the way we agreed to dress three days ago on a conference call. Chats to my guys at HDI, by the way. That's why I'm wearing an HDI Colton Houston. This was not designed, but that happened to me when I was, what if I had shown up just in the dress shirt with no understood underneath? You could be topless. That's weird behavior, but so I do not endorse that. You would be topless? Yeah. I would be covered. You would be topless and we would nickname you must. Okay, that's actually what if I what if I, what if I went mus on this headquarters desk at the end of the podcast? I will not. I will not. That is not happening. Well, that's one way to go viral. It is. There's lots of ways to go viral. That's one of them. That's one of them. Yeah. That's not going to happen. But it's great to, by the way, it's great to be with you. It's great to be live. This is, you know, this is a different little vibe here. We've got some folks around the set here down at the convention center. George R Brown, convention center, downtown Houston. And yeah. Podcast live. We need to do this more often. We got to do it more often. You got to come to my place right around right around the corner from what is it, Hudson market down there in New York City? It's a very deep inside joke even podcast people don't know that jokes. If we're going to do it more often, I suggest not doing it at the same time as a Houston Astros game. And so that's literally happening right now. Yeah, I didn't find out where we were doing this until about two 30 in the morning. Okay. And then I knew because on the production meeting, we talked about it. I was, I was supposed to get texted and addressed and maybe by the way, hold on. We buried the lead. Listen, we'll talk stand there in a second. Maybe. We wish that the Astros came together. I am baseball podcast. We made it happen. And by the way, I didn't suggest this GP took care of it. 'cause he's like three bets behind anyway. Since I won the final four and one, I don't even know what the tallies are, but you have been well surmounted GP picked up the cost of my ticket. So it was a good time. Your ass grows one. Actually, you know what? This guy showed up in a mets hat to a White Sox Astros game and you know what, you know, you know what people were saying. That's then behavior. Is it? That's them behavior. I was walking. I didn't walk through the stadium at one point on a drink run. And how you were going to say that? And I asked most fans saw my hat and he goes up. The mets suck. I'm like, you think I don't know. I've been doing this my whole life. You think I don't know the men suck? Come on, man. I was at an angel of mince game one time, and angels at the same time of deal. Angel Sam was like, let's suck. And I was like, yo, you're an angels fan. Relax. Take it easy. Which is incredible, actually. The last fan base that needs to be talking trash is the angels. Yeah, relax, buddy. You're not a Dodgers fan. Relax. So yeah, I find out really supposed to be here and then I go, okay, how long is it gonna take to get there? It says like 17 minutes. I said, cool. Yeah, so I leave in what I think is plenty of time. And then I hit Astros traffic. I had to jump out of my Uber. Is half a mile away from here and walking the rest of the way with a garment bag and a computer, walking past, I bump into a San Diego state fan on the street. He's like more of a fist bump. There we go. Oh, a lot of stuff going on. Back to basketball. National title game. Is tomorrow night. It's here inside in our G stadium in Houston. And UConn, as mentioned, opened as a 6 point favorite. It immediately went up to 7.5. The latest number I saw is Yukon -7. So like I said, I'm not going to ask you what Yukon has to do to win the game. It's obvious. If you can't play as well, UConn will win. The question is this. What does San Diego state have to do to win this game? All right, so when we went into Saturday night and I spoke on headquarters, one of the biggest things I said, or the biggest thing that I thought needed to happen for San Diego state was that Matt Bradley had to play like the program's best player because he had not in recent games. That wounded now butler hit the shot, but Bradley was actually the best player overall. He went for 6 boards, 21 points, and 32 minutes, only one turnover. Played really, really well. And they got out to that 14 to 5 run early sds you did on FAU that wound up being a big case. I think that's got to happen again. I think Nathan mensah, who probably should have found out with about two and change to go, there was a 5th foul call that didn't get that didn't get called. I think he's got to play particularly well. Obviously they're going to need to shoot well. And I do think that they're going to have to try and they probably will succeed in this and dictating the terms of the way that the game is played. They're going to want to keep Yukon in the 50s. If Yukon cracks, now what actually wound up happening is FAU broke the streak. So it was 72 71. Teams and had scored that many points on sds, the entire season had actually beaten the Aztecs, so that trend finally broke Saturday night. But you do not, you don't want to let UConn hit certainly not 70. I would even argue 65, just because Yukon is also, that's the thing. SES uses slightly better per possession defense, but Yukon is also top ten and his top ten on both ends of the floor here. So slow the pace. Keep it, keep it to 65, 68 possessions. Certainly not as many as 70 because you don't want to you don't want to let you kind of Stephanie. It's hard for me to see the Aztecs winning this game if the huskies get to that threshold. You know, I don't really think seem to go state has to try to control tempo because Yukon doesn't play that fast either. They're both in the 200s and tempo, according to Ken palm. So it's going to be played at a comfortable pace. I do think they need to make it ugly. And I think Brian dutcher would probably agree. Basketball fans don't want to watch an ugly game on Monday night. But I think San Diego state fans probably do because that is your best opportunity to actually win a national championship. I told this story last night on the on college basketball podcast. I'll give a brief a version of it now, but it is the main thing that pops into my head as we get ready for a UConn San Diego state championship game. It was the 2009 title game. It's North Carolina, Michigan state. And North Carolina is like Yukon is tomorrow as significant favor. I remember Tom is those press conference on the Sunday before the title game.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"I mean, it was like, and you saw the ratings. I think the average 6 million viewers. I mean, it was massive, right? And part of what made that awesome is that it was a fun game that was still in the balance in the final minute. Final seconds. Final minute. And then we had that first national semifinal San Diego state forward Atlantic and it was awesome because it was up for grabs literally until the final set horn. And then we didn't have that really in the second semifinal. It's a little less interesting. I hope we get a competitive game. I hope we get a close game. And I'm thrilled that San Diego state is in this position after, you know, having that 30 and two season end in 2020, the way it ended. Obviously, nobody got a shot to win the national championship in 2020 because that tournament was canceled. But not everybody would have had a shot, a real shot to win it, had we played it. But San Diego states one of the teams that would have. And I remember making this point about San Diego state and back then. Okay, Kansas was going to be a one seed. And they lost the opportunity to play that out. But like Kansas is always going to have an opportunity to win a national championship. It's Kansas. Same goes for duke and Gonzaga and you name it. For San Diego state and Dayton in that year, you wonder. Will they ever be in this good of a position again to make a final four to win a national title? And here we are just three years later and saying they will see is in the national title game as a 5 seat. It's a tremendous story. They've only lost once since February 1st, we made a paid a lot of attention to farted. It's 35 and three. Well, it's any state's now 32 and 6. It's a good basketball team. And obviously an elite defensive basketball team. But they are a significant underdog and most people expect them to lose. Pretty convincingly, which is the reason the point spread has already moved in the direction it's moved. So I just hope we get a good game. And I won't be surprised if we do. How's our hourly fans doing? How's what? How's our alley fans doing? You know what? Can we retire yet? I don't think we can retire yet. We gotta get our alley fans account off the off the ground. That seems like an off season project, you know? Right now we're kind of in the middle of it. I'm doing television shows and writing columns and podcasts and kind of in the middle. I'm a little too consumed right now to continue to pursue our alley fans account, but we'll get there. We've got a long off season. Just two days away, strong, jaw. We got a, we got a long, off season, just two days away. Love it. Hey man, I know how not fun it is, sitting around waiting for me to get offset while you're at home. I mean, it's where you live. You're in the central time zone just like I'm in the central time zone right now. So it's one ten as opposed to two ten eastern, but still. I know that's not fun. So I appreciate you being here and staying up for me. And I owe you forever. Anything for you. Anything you're the best strong jaw. Shouts to David Downey. Shouts to Chester, South Carolina, Chelsea hook, Chelsea lawr now. Thank you guys once again for listening, watching the aisle college basketball podcast. If you're not subscribed, please go subscribe anywhere you subscribe to podcasts, including Apple podcasts and Spotify over at Apple. Leave a nice review. 5 stars type some words. There's more of us than there are of them. That needs to be reflected in the comments. Obviously, when you're in a final four, you bump into a lot of coaches and stuff, had a prominent coach. You walk up to me the other day. He said, GP. Smash it like you're breaking Davies. And it's just not the word you expect to ever hear out of somebody's mouth, you know? There's more of us. There is, though, that's a fact. And I'm glad and I'm glad that I'm glad that people have come around on that. Is controversial when I first started this movement in favor of premarital sex, but I feel like not only am I on the right side of history, I'm now in the majority and I feel like I always was just more now socially acceptable. Thank you guys for staying up late, not just strong job, but all of you here live. And if you happen to be in Houston, mat norland and I will be doing a live podcast at noon central, nada, can you turn your mic on and tell people where it is 'cause I have no idea. And I've got to be there at some point soon. And I have no idea where it is. Why don't you feel people in? Tell me where it's at and then everybody else. We listen in as well. We are at the fan fest at the George R Brown convention center. We are going to be there, as you said, 12 noon, central time, and we're going to have a live podcast on CBS. Sports headquarters. That's all I know at this point, but be there at the George R Brown convention center, you'll be able to find this very, very easily. All right, cool. I'm gonna punch that in my phone right now. Now see the rest of you. When I see the rest of you, everybody have a good night. We'll talk to you again
What's Wrong With Wrestling? WWE Recap Show
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on What's Wrong With Wrestling? WWE Recap Show
"Road to road to the biggest sandwich of the summer. Oh my God. You just got me excited about wrestling, but not for wrestling, but involving wrestling. Wrestling food. Yes, SummerSlam witch. Oh my God. The re sandwiching. Sandwiching. Are you going to do something different or the same one as last time? Take a change. I'm going to make a change. Not a big change. I don't change. Don't get crazy. I mean, G 6 is a sandwich. Oh. Wait, what is SummerSlam? It's July, right? July 30th. Yeah. Oh, man. It's not even in August this time. Nope. Crazy. Is that even on a Sunday? That's oh, yeah. It's a Saturday. And so far, another Saturday. So far, it's just SummerSlam rematch or a WrestleMania WrestleMania rematch land Roman and Brock again theory and Lashley again. I'm sure insert woman's title name versus insert someone she's faced. Right, right. More rematches to come. Live will lose to a returning Charlotte because of course, we'll see. Don't remind me that. We're happy about live right now. This is good times. Let us enjoy the good times. Even Corbin versus McAfee is a rematch. I mean, they fought in 2009 when they were both on that football team. Jesus. You don't even know what team they were on. The football thing. They're on the same team, so they weren't fighting. Corbin, Corbin never played a down. He was on the practice squad. I remember being the Cardinals, I guess he was on a couple practice squads, but yeah. I mean, that's like Brock Lesnar, not a future Minnesota Viking. Correct? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. He didn't make it either. No, none of them do. So yeah, we're going to recap raw. Yeah. A little bit of SmackDown, just a little snake. There's one or two things that need to be talked about there. But first, we have some new patrons to thank. So thank you to max Jones, Bert fengle, toddy Beck, Justin caraz, Gabriel weidel, and will and Edmonton. Oh, in Edmonton. Oh, we got a phone call, will and Edmonton. How's it going, will? How you doing? Yeah. So thank you to those 6 wonderful people. Those are first timers. Yeah. Like we do every week. And if you want to join them, go to Patreon dot com slash what's wrong with wrestling, $5 a month. You can cancel anytime. We got brackets. We just had a new bracket we did last week. Go check it out. Best John Cena match and moment of all time. Two for bracket. It's a twofer. And the ratings are in and it's approved. It's a hit. It's a hit. Everyone liked it. John Cena might not move the needle on raw, but he moves our needle. Yeah, especially Eric's needle. He's the one that made the bracket. He was very excited. My needle was very moved. Do you have like pre John Cena raw and post John Cena raw and John Cena raw numbers? I just like John Cena raw. That'd be interesting to see. If he moved it like .1. Yeah. No, I mean, it actually was down from the previous week. It was down. Yes. Oh boy. That's right. Get that needle in the raw. So go to Patreon dot com slash what's wrong with wrestling, give it a try. And also, are you done? We're doing the plugs. You don't talk over the plugs, Eric. Don't talk about your needle during my plug. You're going to get burned if you talk over the plugs. Don't plug your needle in my plug. All right, so we also have to thank Kyle foxton. He bought two t-shirts. He got the logo end. Needle movement. Say you're lying idiot. You have one job. Dance monkey. Pizza. It's your most iconic line ever. It's my only line. Logo and pizza. Go to pro wrestling tees dot com slash what's wrong with wrestling to get one or two shirts or four or 5? Yeah, right? He may have taken advantage of that for the July. Oh, he did, yeah. Yeah. Good deal, exactly. And also, we are going to be at comic palooza. Hey, hey, in Houston at the George R Brown convention center. Yeah. We're going to be doing a live podcast there on Saturday, July 16th at noon. Yes, an Adam Cole is going to be there Adam page is going to be there. Whether they like it or not. I'm going to invite them on the podcast if they say no, then I'm just going to beat them up because they're Adam Cole's like 5 6. I can take him. I mean, I think there's a little bigger, but I'm sure I could beat him. I've had a bottle of chloroform just waiting for an opportunity. And if not, we'll pay sergeant slaughter 20 bucks to be on the podcast. Correct. That'll be something. It will. And then we always it's $18 just to get to see him. Yeah. Okay. And then we'll accuse you. Then we'll accuse sergeant slaughter of stolen valor. It's going to be great. Wow. Stolen valor. Remember there was a story a couple years ago where people were doing that to sergeant slaughter. Yeah. It was like, it was his character. Yeah. He was right. You don't chase down people on TV. Yeah. He's playing a role. Sure, he's still playing that role because he wants money, but hold on hold on. Illegally changes his first name to sergeant. Just S GT. Right. Period. He's not even the full name. He's not ultimate warrior. But he was a GI Joe. Yeah. He's got to be a real army guy. Right. What branch did we've already been down this road? What branch did you serve in? The GI Joe corps. The GI core. All right, so two quick things from SmackDown. Two quick things from SmackDown. Oh God. Yeah. Despite what we thought maps Dupree finally defeat. Max duffett finally announced his models. Oh God. And it was one we knew and the other one I had heard was the one where okay. Weird? I've heard that he was going to be the other one. They kept him for this. Yeah, so mace is now mase. Yeah. It's spelled the same, but there's a period in between. And some like dots and circles and weird things. And mansoor is now men swab men swab with plenty of accent marks, right? And he had a fanny pack around his chest. Yes, he did. My God, both models take turns walking down the runway while fake photographers take fake pictures. So they didn't even actually take pictures. They had the cameras and they were just doing this. It's like, those are cameras, right? Right. Like how about you actually take some pictures so we see the flash that use like the stage to create the flash. Of course. Lashes. Right. That's what D.C. is going to do in that flash movie. Yeah. Let's use the stage to create the flesh. Yeah. They better. I got. So then max the tree was in the ring and he said these men will titillate the juices of your guilty pleasures. Joke and you take this one, explain all of that. Eric, we're fighting after this. Tell us about your titillated juices. Look, I mean, these guys are, they're good-looking. I think my say.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Outside the George R Brown convention center Friday with many holding up photos of the victims from the ivaldi school shooting Some of the protesters shouted quote NRA go away and it could be your kids today The NRA is the nation's biggest gun lobby and a major donor to politicians California governor Gavin Newsom is receiving treatment after testing positive for COVID-19 Feel farrar has the latest Governor Newsom says he's isolating working remotely after tweeting he tested positive for COVID-19 Now this comes just ten days after he received a second booster yesterday Newsom met with New Zealand's prime minister to establish an international climate partnership besides rest his office says the governor will also take paxil vid to combat the virus I'm Phil ferrar And Top Gun: Maverick is the hottest movie out this Memorial Day weekend The hit sequel is expected to earn over $150 million over the weekend breaking the previous box office record set by Pirates of the Caribbean at world's end The film is part of the widest release ever showing at almost 5000 theaters worldwide I'm Jim Forbes It turns out the U.S. forest service may be to blame for New Mexico's largest wildfire The Santa Fe national forest now says the two wildfires in northern New Mexico that merged into one started back in April by a burn pile of branches that the forest service thought was out The fire later merged with their controlled burn that went out of control The two fires together have burned over 312,000 acres in New Mexico sangre to Cristo mountains A cyclist is struck and killed by an MTA bus in Queens David folk Thomas has the latest It happened Saturday around ten 40 a.m. near the intersection of 128th avenue and 238th street in the laurelton neighborhood ABC 7 reports the bus was traveling southbound on 238th street When it struck a man on a bicycle the bike appeared to have a motor attached to it The victim suffering head and body trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene The 59 year old bus driver is reportedly cooperating.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Mistake during the Yuval school shooting Parents of the 19 children who were killed at rob elementary school found out police waited for reinforcements before entering the classroom where the gunman had opened fire DPS director Steve McGraw said it was the wrong decision to wait and not breach the classroom door For the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now of course it was not the right decision It was the wrong decision Period There was no excuse for that The NRA convention in Houston is drawing large crowds of protesters after the deadly school shooting in Texas about 500 protesters stood outside the George R Brown convention center Friday with many holding up photos of the victims from the Yuval school shooting The first named storm of the hurricane season is brewing in the Pacific tropical storm Agatha is churning off the Mexican coast this weekend Forecasters predict the storm could strengthen before possibly brushing the Mexican coast Monday night That's the latest I'm Julie Ryan And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom Beijing will loosen mobility curbs in several districts beginning tomorrow This after authorities said its outbreak is under control while total case numbers in the financial hub of Shanghai continue to decline Most public transportation services including buses subways and taxis will resume in three districts A spokesman for the Beijing city government says the number of new infections has fallen for 6 straight days in Beijing with no cases outside of quarantine reported on Friday New York's grid operator sees electricity demand growing at a slower pace than previously expected this summer This as customers take up solar power to supplement their energy needs more from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini The New York independent system operator is saying in a statement that summer demand may climb 2.7% based on expected weather conditions at slower than its prior projection of a 4.6% increase The grid operator says most of the decline is due to Holbein's businesses installing solar panels which of course cuts the amount of energy consumers need to tap from the grid Bloomberg's Pellegrini there Donald Trump's federal lawsuit to challenge the authority of New York to investigate his sprawling real estate business was dismissed Trump and his company failed to provide evidence that New York attorney general letitia James opened the investigation into potentially fraudulent as evaluations as a result of a political bias against him that according to U.S. district to judge Brenda sands on Friday A full floor apartment at Amman New York a luxury condominium on New York City's billionaires row has closed for $55 million that according to a spokesman for the project the deal is one of the most expensive to close in the city so far this year according to local agents Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm Suzanne Palmer This is.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
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Red Wing's Oil and Gas HSE Podcast
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on Red Wing's Oil and Gas HSE Podcast
"Of melissa finley come on this podcast as always wanna thank everyone for listening tune in again next week for another episode of anderson hauser's oil and gas. Hse podcast production of the oil and gas global network anderson. Hauser is your reliable. us and international based partner for measurement instrumentation services and solutions. We are your people for process automation as mentioned at the beginning of this podcast. Discover more about anderson houser at our website register for the monthly podcast giveaway. There you can find that in the show notes also you can find in the show notes how to follow us on linked in and also on twitter and you can find all this and the show notes along with will put melissa's linked in you are ellen. You can contact her if you'd like to visit with with her more. Please leave us a review on itunes and tell your friends about us. Now here's savannah zia. Next time everybody it's savannah from obt and here the events on deck for august twenty twenty one this month we have five events. But if you'd like the full list you can click the link in the show notes to sign up for our events newsletter. We send it out every month and it includes more info about the events. I talk about here. We even include events that occurred two months ahead of time. So if you're interested in always staying in the loop about oil and gas events make sure to check out this month. Obgyn will be hosting our monthly happy hour at the canon in houston texas on august. Twenty six july happy hour was a hit. So if you weren't there for the last one we hope to see you there this month. At this event you'll be able to meet some of ojeda host network with other oil and gas industry professionals all enjoying great food and drinks other than oj yen's events. We have three in person events in one hybrid in person and online event. First up. we have our three in person. Events the first being otc or the offshore technology conference at energy stadium in houston texas from august sixteenth to the nineteenth next. We have the i. P. a. leaders and industry luncheon at the petroleum club of houston on august seventeenth. And lastly we have the twenty twenty one connected plant conference at the renaissance hotel in austin texas from august thirtieth to september second other than our three in person events we have our hybrid event which has nape or the north american prospect expo. Now this summit is a hybrid event. Because it's both online and in person. The in person portion of the event will be from august eighteenth to the twentieth at the george r brown convention center while the online portion of the event is from august ninth to september third. If you have any questions about these events or any podcast within the oil and gas global network make sure to reach out to me through my email and the show notes. That's all for august. I hope you guys have a great month and thanks for tuning in hsun in next week for another engaging episodes of the oil and gas. Hse podcast a production of the oil and gas global network. Learn more at ocd n. dot com.
KTRH
"george r brown convention center" Discussed on KTRH
"London's in the Gulf Coast windows dot com. 24 hour traffic center from our ktrh John more Services 24 Hour Weather Center For today We are looking at flurries of snow showers They end probably another hour to this morning. It'll be cloudy and then we'll have some partial clearing This after this could be cold all day long will be will struggle to get to maybe 20 degrees. Tonight. We're down into the teens and with some clearing skies and tomorrow mostly sunny, low to mid thirties for a high temperature right now, 17 and your officials severe weather station. News radio 7 40 ktrh trying to get you caught up on this morning's top stories all pretty much the weather here, sheriff. Good morning is now 6 51 on NewsRadio. 7 40 ktrh are headlines were sponsored by very dot com Because I'm looking up at the weather map 59 degrees in Galveston because the storm hasn't worked its way over there yet, but those of us as we're going, we're gonna warm up into the twenties today, but overnight is when they're really cold stuff is gonna happen, And I'm seeing a negative four for like Brenham. For heaven's sakes. So we're we're just in the beginning of this Jimmy rolling blackouts already all across the state because it's been working its way from the West is not coming straight out of the North West westward across the state. Some of those locally here some of those brownouts blackouts really have lasted for over four hours, and we're gonna have to stay on top of this situation throughout the day. George R. Brown Convention Center, Lakewood Church opened his warming centers yesterday filled to capacity within an hour. Half There is an additional warming center on Air Center Boulevard that's near rank and rode in the hardy Toll Road. Galveston Co. Care is coordinating food and shelter for the homeless in the city, and that county first responders aren't the only ones working in Cyprus. So is the Waffle House staying open? You know this first responders need some food, too. Despite the storm more these stories right now a ktrh dot com Our next news update will be at the top of the hour. There are 59 inbound for Luke is always a problem. Ktrh time saving traffic Next on.
Houston Matters
Houston Sends Emergency Text Alert To 4.7M Residents Requesting They Cancel Holiday Gatherings During COVID-19 Surge
"On tuesday. Show harris county judge. Lena hidalgo reiterated the seriousness of this latest surge of covid nineteen cases later tuesday to reinforce at the county released an emergency broadcast alert urging residents to stay home wear masks and cancelled gatherings that last part is not welcome news for folks whose job it is to promote and encourage such gatherings or those who rely on such events convention and visitors bureau officials owners of major convention and performance venues nationwide hotels. You name it. There are all sorts of industries that have had to radically rethink what they do how they do it and what they can or cannot plan for and promote communities. What exactly can such folks do in houston amid a pandemic leading to record setting numbers of infections by the day. Let's ask houston first acting president and ceo. Michael heckman michael. Welcome to houston matters. Good morning it's great to be here. Thank you for joining us. You took on this role at houston. I back in august. Though you've been with the local government corporation that manages city owned buildings properties and parking for a number of years in other roles how has the pandemic impacted the work. Houston i is doing. And we'll be doing in the coming months well it it was This year's been a lot of change for a lot of people pretty much. Everybody and many many industries maybe none more than the travel live events and tourism business Once march hit we had to really really React in a different way Than what our plans. Our plans completely got thrown out the window. We were looking for a record year for tourism for twenty twenty or conventions. We had a great convention calendar In once it became clear over time that that wasn't gonna happen. We had to shift immediately to You know we pulled our domestic and international advertising. We shifted to community support. We shifted to things like stations To be able to put people eventually back in in hotels But the impacts for the hospitality community and anyone in the live event. Business has been Extreme houston i operates. The george brown convention center avenida houston jones hall worthy miller outdoor theatre among other venues. While many if not all those venues very much this at the moment and haven't been able to for a number of months. Can some events conventions meetings concerts. Would you be scheduled at least several months out. Maybe if not a year or more from now well we're looking at at. I'll get to the performance. Venue in a moment but You know we're looking at next year Currently and what are our best View of it is today and talking to all of our convention. Clients is We're seeing shift from q one and q two two major conventions that have moved back into q. Three possibly q four. We're not seeing as many outhouse cancellations which is good news. I think that the vaccine news. is Is the light at the end of the tunnel will see how it's ultimately distributed and brought to scale Hopefully that will be over the first six months of twenty twenty one But but some green shoots as we see them as you know for example Offshore technology conference otc move from may back to august and we'll see some additional shifts of some major conventions that will move back into into q three and q four so after july. first we have seen No cancellations related to covid On our calendar so the second half of the year could be A busy convention year. In the meantime what can and is being done through the george r brown convention center these days. I think if you look at some of these small safe events that were able to do For for example the symphony in jones hall Outdoor programming again. That's that's physically distanced. That safe safeties number one priority for for any of our attendees for any guests for travelers for that matter. You know that's why. We've rolled out the the houston clean initiative in partnership with many of the sports events and venues And hospitality sector Whether that be restaurants or hotels is houston clean Is a promise to ease or anyone that may travel is. There's there's a minimum amount of Protocols that each one that takes this pledge we'll put into place so as we develop this level of confidence with with attendees travelers. Hopefully we'll be able to to be able to get That visitor economy in the hospitality economy be able to be restarted. But there are some events that you're you're able to do where we're going to be Hosting events down here at the the avenida friday night there will be The alley theatre will have their Their tree lighting Down here The ice at discovery green there are events small in nature that you're able to do At this period of time but safety is the number one
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Houston Cancels In-Person Texas GOP Convention Due To Surge In Coronavirus Cases
"The Mayor of Houston. Taxes the mayor. Houston Texas Lester. Turner changed the in-person. Republican Party State Convention that was going to happen in about a week to be online only from in person to online, only which was probably good call because the Texas GOP convention was set to be held all indoors at the George. Brown Convention Center so that was GONNA be bad. It's not gonNA be as bad as state level boomers trying to figure out how to go dial into the online gop convention. That's. Better believe is could be some technical difficulties. They're