Editing Live Aid (section)

== Organisation ==
[[File:Bob Geldof Rock am Ring 1987.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Bob Geldof]], who successfully pitched the idea of the Live Aid concert to promoter [[Harvey Goldsmith]]]]
Among those involved in organising<!-- Not a typo: this article is written in British English spelling --> Live Aid were [[Harvey Goldsmith]], who was responsible for the Wembley Stadium concert, and [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], who put together the American leg.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bob Geldof, Harvey Goldsmith – and the truth about Live Aid|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/neil-mccormick/8217877/Bob-Geldof-Harvey-Goldsmith-and-the-truth-about-Live-Aid.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018122721/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/neil-mccormick/8217877/Bob-Geldof-Harvey-Goldsmith-and-the-truth-about-Live-Aid.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 October 2014|work=The Telegraph|date=5 May 2018}}</ref> On promoting the event, Goldsmith stated, "I didn't really get a chance to say no. Bob [Geldof] arrived in my office and basically said, 'We're doing this.' It started from there."<ref name="Geldof artists">{{cite news |title=Live aid in their own words |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/oct/17/popandrock5 |access-date=6 June 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104194249/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/oct/17/popandrock5|archive-date=4 November 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

The concert grew in scope as more acts were added on both sides of the Atlantic. [[Tony Verna]], one of the inventors of [[instant replay]], was able to secure [[John F. Kennedy Stadium]] through his friendship with Philadelphia mayor [[Wilson Goode]] and was able to procure, through his connections with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s prime time chief, John Hamlin, a three-hour prime time slot on the ABC Network and, in addition, was able to supplement the lengthy programme through meetings that resulted in the addition of an ad-hoc network within the US, which covered 85 per cent of TVs there. Verna designed the needed satellite schematic and became the executive director as well as the co-executive producer along with [[Hal Uplinger]]. Uplinger, the co-inventor of instant replay, came up with the idea to produce a four-hour video edit of Live Aid to distribute to those countries without the necessary satellite equipment to rebroadcast the live feed.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}