Live Earth Lights Up Seven Continents

Live Earth Lights Up Seven Continents: "Live Earth Lights Up Seven Continents

NEW YORK, New York, July 9, 2007 (ENS) - Millions of viewers from around the world logged onto www.LiveEarth.MSN.com to experience Saturday’s Live Earth concerts happening on all seven continents and to confront the threat of global warming, while millions more watched the shows on television, and still more millions saw hundreds of entertainers live in eight concert venues.

As of 3:00 pm EDT on Saturday, MSN had a total of more than 10 million video streams and had the most simultaneous viewers of any online concert ever, the company said.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and actor Leonardo DiCaprio on stage at Giants Stadium for the final Live Earth show. (Photo by JeffPulver)
'History is being made today,' said Joanne Bradford, corporate vice president and chief media officer of MSN. 'Millions of people around the world have joined together to fight the climate crisis.'"

'Live Earth' Doesn't Play Well With Viewers - washingtonpost.com

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'Live Earth' Doesn't Play Well With Viewers - washingtonpost.com: "'Live Earth' Doesn't Play Well With Viewers

By John Maynard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 11, 2007; Page C07

'Live Earth' was dead weight for NBC this weekend.

The three-hour prime-time telecast of the event, designed to raise awareness of climate-change issues, drew just 2.8 million viewers to the network. It was the least watched show among the major broadcast networks Saturday night, trailing repeats of Fox's 'Cops,' which averaged 4.2 million, and 'America's Most Wanted' (4.7 million), and ABC's broadcast of the 2001 movie 'Monsters, Inc.' (3.4 million)."

www.kansascity.com | 07/09/2007 | BEN WENER: Will Live Earth have a lasting effect?

www.kansascity.com | 07/09/2007 | BEN WENER: Will Live Earth have a lasting effect?: "BEN WENER: Will Live Earth have a lasting effect?
Orange County Register

Tim Larsen


Maybe Bob Geldof was right after all about Live Earth.

Perhaps you read comments the rocker-turned-humanitarian made two months ago, when Al Gore and Geldof's Live Aid and Live 8 co-organizer Kevin Wall were still hammering out details for their worldwide series of 'concerts for a climate in crisis,' held from Rio de Janeiro to Shanghai this past weekend."

www.kansascity.com | 07/10/2007 | PRO-CON: Were Live Earth concerts a good idea? NO

www.kansascity.com | 07/10/2007 | PRO-CON: Were Live Earth concerts a good idea? NO: "PRO-CON: Were Live Earth concerts a good idea? NO

Someone was missing from the lineup at Saturday’s Live Earth concerts, created by Al Gore to raise alarm about global warming.

If only 1980s flash-in-the-pan Buster Poindexter had been there to perform his 1987 hit “Hot! Hot! Hot!” more people would have better understood the dire situation in which humanity finds itself."

Live Earth concert sets new record for internet views - BloggingStocks

Live Earth concert sets new record for internet views - BloggingStocks: "Live Earth concert sets new record for internet views

Posted Jul 9th 2007 2:07PM by Beth Gaston Moon
Filed under: Consumer experience, Internet, Microsoft (MSFT)
As comedians, personalities, and musicians worldwide joined together to promote the cause of environmental awareness, interested viewers took to their computers, collectively generating more than 9 million internet streams, according to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s MSN service."

`Live Earth' Concerts No Big TV Draw - Forbes.com

`Live Earth' Concerts No Big TV Draw - Forbes.com: "Given a choice between the Police, John Mayer and Madonna on television or a summer's night out, millions of Americans chose the latter.

The Live Earth concert, Al Gore's sprawling worldwide effort to raise environmental awareness, wasn't a big television draw. NBC's Saturday-night highlights show was seen by 2.75 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research, or fewer people than watched the soccer match between Argentina and Peru that night on Univision."