Producing the 17th Annual Kids Lip Sync — live, on the air, no misses.

Danny & Ron’s Rescue is a nonprofit animal rescue organization that has placed thousands of dogs into homes and provides direct care to animals rescued from neglect and disaster. Their flagship annual fundraiser, the Kids Lip Sync, is a Grammys-themed gala in which kids perform staged lip-sync numbers in front of a live audience and a global online viewership. Every dollar raised goes back to the rescue.

More on the organization and the 2026 event: dannyronsrescue.org · event announcement

The Kids Lip Sync is the kind of show that has no second take. It runs once, live, in front of an audience that includes the donors funding the rescue and celebrities lending their visibility to the cause. In previous years, the broadcast quality and reliability delivered by other vendors had not kept up with the scale of the event.

Primestar Digital Network was brought in through a long-standing client relationship with a clear mandate: put the broadcast on broadcast-grade footing and make sure it goes off cleanly — live, archived, and viewable everywhere it needed to be.

The production was built as a multi-camera live event broadcast run from a tented venue, with the camera, audio, switching, and encode chain engineered for one purpose: never drop the show.

• Multi-camera live coverage of the stage, the room, and audience reactions, with a dedicated production position positioned for clean sightlines to the LED wall and performers.
• Datavideo switching and monitoring driving the live program feed, with on-air graphics and lower-thirds keyed in for performer names, sponsor recognition, and donation QR codes.
• Broadcast audio mix taken cleanly from the house console — performance tracks, mic talent, and room ambience balanced for online viewers, not just the room.
• Live encoding and distribution with redundant paths so the worldwide live stream and the on-demand archive copy were captured at the same time.
• Donation-friendly on-air graphics — including QR codes overlaid on the program feed and the in-room video wall — so viewers could give in the moment, from wherever they were watching.
• Branded on-site crew in Primestar uniforms, running intercoms, ready to roll with last-minute talent changes and program flow shifts — which always happen.

The broadcast went off without a hitch. Viewers from all over the world tuned in live and on demand to support the rescue, and the room itself drew notable supporters — including Vanilla Ice, Billy Joel, and Brandon McMillan — lending visibility to the cause.

The full broadcast is archived on YouTube: 17th Annual Kids Lip Sync — full show .

• Zero downtime, zero missed cues across the full run of show — the broadcast went start to finish without a hitch.
• Worldwide live and on-demand reach — viewers tuned in from across the country and internationally to support the rescue in real time.
• On-air donation pathway via QR codes and live graphics, so financial support could land while the show was still on the air.
• Celebrity-grade production polish matched to a celebrity-attended room — the look on screen earned the audience that was watching.
• A repeatable broadcast playbook the organization can build on year over year, instead of starting from scratch with a new vendor every time.

Galas, charity broadcasts, and once-a-year live events live or die on reliability. When the show only runs once, “mostly works” isn’t a category — you either delivered it cleanly or you didn’t. The Kids Lip Sync is a working example of what it looks like when a nonprofit stops cycling through hopeful vendors and brings in a broadcast partner whose full-time job is making sure live shows go on the air.

If you’re organizing a gala, telethon, awards night, or annual fundraiser and you need the broadcast itself to stop being the variable, that’s the conversation we have all the time.