Live Earth

MSN Claims Webcast Record With Live Earth Concerts

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 9, 2007 - 4:15pm.

East Rutherford, N.J. - Microsoft said that its live webcasts of the Live Earth concerts this weekend served up over 10 million streams, marking the most simultaneous viewers for any online concert ever.

Intelsat to Broadcast Live Earth Concerts in HD

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2007 - 11:05am.

Los Angeles - Commercial satellite operator Intelsat has announced a partnership with the Live Earth global warming awareness concert series, and will broadcast the concerts in New York, London, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney and Hamburg in both standard and high-definition.

tags: TV | Music | HD | Intelsat | Live Earth |

New Madonna Song Posted for Free Download on MSN

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 17, 2007 - 3:20pm.

Redmond, Wash. - As part of the upcoming Live Earth climate crisis concert series, a new song from recording artist Madonna has been placed for free download on Microsoft's LiveEarth.MSN.com site, which will also stream the concert series live on July 7. MSN said it will donate 25 cents for each of the first million downloads of "Hey You" -- a song written specifically for the Live Earth event -- to the Alliance for Climate Protection.

tags: Music | MSN | Madonna | Live Earth |