--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I watched a little of it. Enough to remind me of how little of this
> stuff is music anymore but corporate contrived sound pieces. The
> choreography, especially Madonna's, looked like it was a high school
> cheerleader routine. Of course I'm arrogant because I'm a classically
> trained musician who created "dumbed down" pieces for some of the rock
> groups I played in. Thus I know how the scheme works. Ironic to watch
> Chevrolet sponsor the show on NBC which BTW had a lower bitrate feed
and
> thus poorer sound than Universal HD (also a part of GE owned NBC).
Very interesting. I was disappointed that the bands were mostly Top 40
Music group. I didn't see a single Jazz artist there much less musical
artists from the underground scene, any underground group. It's the
same ole, same ole. I'm a musician also; I specialize in the Free
Jazz. Heaven forbid if Live Earth had shown one of us performing! ;-)
Peace,
Marc
>
> Robert Gimbel wrote:
> > EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - 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.
> > As the last two of the nine Live Earth concerts got underway,
MSN product manager Karin Muskopf said the number of streams had
surpassed the previous record held by 2005's Live 8 global concerts to
fight poverty.
> > "We have exceeded any other online entertainment event," Muskopf
said. "It's really exciting to see the enthusiasm for the concert."
> > An Internet stream is when a person watches on a computer.
People can stream an event more than once -- by switching it on and
off -- so 9 million streams does not necessarily mean 9 million people
watching, MSN said.
> > Live 8 was the first major multi-venue event successfully
streamed live with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL portal on the Web. AOL said
5 million people had logged on to the event on the day of those shows,
but it did not say how many Internet streams of the event there had been.
> > MSN said it would not be able to immediately determine the
number of people who logged on to Live Earth.
> > Control Room, producer of Live Earth and Live 8, said it found
that the on-demand streams in the days after the Live 8 had the most
impact, especially after clips were passed around by e-mail.
> > Live 8 was streamed by users more than 100 million times in the
six weeks following the shows.
> > Live Earth is predicted to be three times bigger with organizers
expecting more than 80 percent of the viewership will be on-demand in
the days after the event.
> >
> >
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