`Live Earth' concerts no big TV draw
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Given a choice among the Police, John Mayer and Madonna on television or a summer's night out, millions of Americans chose the latter.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Police, Roger Waters, Kanye West, and the Smashing Pumpkins led an all-star lineup of environmentally conscious rockers and rappers at yesterday's Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium, performing for a sold-out crowd of 52,000.
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LONDON, July 7 â They joined forces two years ago to combat global poverty under the flag of Live 8, and rock and pop stars and their myriad fans around the world threw their voices behind a good cause again on Saturday, this time that of raising awareness about global warming through a campaign called Live Earth.
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Not many did. The FCC, ABC, CBS and NBC all seem to agree democracy works best when no one is watching. One hour a night -- and not a moment on opening night.
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The Live Earth  global pop concerts on Saturday broke a record for an online  entertainment show by generating more than 9 million Internet  streams, Microsoft Corp. Web portal MSN said.
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Initially rebuffed by Washington, former Vice President Al Gore's Live Earth concerts found a last-minute home in the U.S. capital on Friday after Native Americans offered their museum for the worldwide event.
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Organizers of the South African  leg of the Live Earth concerts have arranged a new venue in a  bid to stimulate lagging ticket sales.
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This past weekend&#39;s worldwide Live Earth concert might eventually impact the rising water level caused by melting glaciers, but it has already been a &quot;watershed&quot; for simultaneous video streams.
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The Live Earth global concert series to raise awareness about climate change kicked off in Sydney on Saturday.
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At Live Earth, a planetwide series of concerts, the highest ranks of the pop aristocracy will use their fame to persuade a global audience that climate change is not only an urgent problem but one they can help solve.
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The Who recently pulled the plug on  live Web casts of their concerts, because singer Roger Daltrey  was less than enthused about the concept, but the band is now  back on the air thanks to a deal with Sirus Satellite Radio.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ says it set a record for streaming an online event to the most customers after offering the Live Earth concerts on MSN over the weekend. About 8 million people watched at least parts of the concerts live over the 36 hours that the shows took place inÂ 10 locations around the world. At the peak, 237,000 people watched simultaneously, Microsoft said. That's more than what Microsoft thinks is the previous most-watched online broadcast, the Live 8 concerts in 2005. According to AOL, which streamed thoseÂ 10 concerts, 5 million people around the world watched live. Teams in London, China and Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, supported the Live Earth streaming effort on MSN. Those workers were primarily content editors and programmers who were constantly updating the Web page with live and on-demand content as well as details about which artists were performing live and who was up next, said Lisa Gurry, MSN senior director at Microsoft. Microsoft relied on its existing server farms around the globe to support the stream but beefed up those facilities in preparation, Gurry said. "We used a lot of our existing capacity and purchased additional to ensure we were prepared for the massive amount of traffic we were expecting," she said. Akamai Technologies also helped support the streaming, she said. MSN signed the deal with Live Earth to stream the concerts last year and began preparations to support the event in February, she said. MSN looked back to other popular events it has streamed, such as the NCAA Final Four basketball games, in order to estimate how many people might tune into Live Earth. Although that preparation paid off, MSN did find some surprises, Gurry said. MSN had expected that the U.S. show would produce the most traffic, but it came in fourth. The U.K. concert was the most viewed, followed by Australia, Germany, and Japan, she said. MSN expects viewers to continue to visit the site to watch archived video of the concerts on demand. In the week after the Live 8 concerts, AOL surpassed the number of live watchers, recording 8.5 million unique visitors who requested more than 25 million on-demand plays of the concerts.
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The global concert series was a target for cynics, but it should be measured by its political impact, not its carbon footprint
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - It would play right into the hands of critics if the seven Live Earth concerts to be staged worldwide July 7 were to come off in an unfriendly environmental way. And it's probably fair that no concerts in history will be more closely monitored for how well they manage power and waste.
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Live Earth organizers have gone to considerable lengths to marry the global event's methods with its message, but they've been called hypocrites by critics as varied as a Congressman and one of the Who.
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Dozens of pop stars rocked big crowds at Live Earth concerts around the world on Saturday to persuade fans and governments to go green.
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Al Gore&#39;s image as a rock-star eco-warrior gets another high-voltage jolt of celebrity endorsement Saturday when the music world gathers to raise awareness for global warming at Live Earth.