The ensuing forums – a mix of audience questions and hard-hitting follow-ups by Ramos and Salinas – proved a stiffer test for the candidates than any of the debates.
We realised a few years ago that in order to get a buzz and a mix of audience, we had to expand our programme.
Like The Shack's eclectic product mix that has somehow kept the chain in business, its Foursquare success is all about having the right mix of audience, location, marketing and good old fashioned DIY know-how.
Blend in a bigger financial budget to that mix of greater audiences and a perceived step up in quality, and you are well on the way to seeing "why" Hughes made the move.
"It's clearly a mix of religious audience but also general moviegoers and a pretty impressively diverse audience make-up," Klein said.
At one point, Kitson acknowledges the cultural mix of his audience.
He is describing his efforts to change the mix of the audience in LA.
Today, instead of playing stadiums to adoring crowds, he's reduced to taking the stage at the Free Fringe to present a mix of songs, audience flirtations and bitter recriminations against everyone else in showbiz.
Henry Sampson, treasurer of Poetry Slam, a nonprofit that oversees a network of 92 slam organizations, says this year's nationals, held in August in Chicago, cost $70,000 and were paid for by a mix of grants, audience fees, ads and contributions from such sponsors as Magnetic Poetry, the company that makes magnetic word games for refrigerator doors.
