After the ceremony, television executives in power ties mingled with Bunim's friends and relatives.
In spite of the fact that the producers of the telecast wanted well-known "pop stars" to perform the song at the ceremony, Disney executives Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were adamant that "Belle" be performed by the original artist by whom it was recorded.
"Everyone asks me, 'So who's it going to be,' " said Givens, who is also joined in the Five by the ceremony's executive producer, Don Mischer; the Salt Lake chief operating officer, Fraser Bullock, and Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Sports.
Mr Boyle and the opening ceremony's executive producer Stephen Daldry have been talking about the task of putting on a show with a 20,000 strong cast.
"The 'In Memoriam' is a very emotional and evocative segment for the Emmys, or any annual awards program," said the ceremony's executive producer Ken Ehrlich.
For the last twenty years of his life, Solti engaged one man to be something like a master of ceremonies, an executive director who made sure that the conditions were right for the music-making, keeper of the gates marked budget and logistics.
Casey Patterson, an executive producer of the awards ceremony and an executive vice president with the Viacom Entertainment Group, believes interactivity will have the biggest influence on reality and live television, not scripted dramas.
On the eve of the opening ceremony, Telstra's executives displayed a characteristic mix of Australian bravado and nerves.
Humberto Leon, a founder of Opening Ceremony, recalls that executives at Pendleton were at first taken aback by his store's interest in their wares.
Clinton began by presiding over a ceremony in which executives from big companies joined him onstage to pledge money to worthy causes and receive applause from the large crowd.
