Live 8 Gathered 18 Million Viewers on MTV And VH1

MTV and VH1 announced today that more than 18 million total viewers watched the Live 8 concerts, during the 12-8 pm ET broadcast.
According to Yahoo news, the two networks shared a feed for the first time in their history to cover the concerts, aimed to raise awareness of extreme poverty, debt and famine in Africa.

The telecast also ranked #1 for 6 of the 8 hours among total viewers across all of cable. Further, the broadcast maintained a consistent audience, with ratings primarily holding steady throughout the 8 hours.
(source: bizz.yahoo.com)

MTV (PRNewswire):
* MTV's Live 8 coverage ranked #1 in its time period (12-8pm) among its
core demo of 12 - 34-year-olds vs. all cable networks, on average.
* MTV also ranked #1 for total day (6a-6a) among P12-34, with one-third of
the total day hours comprised of Live 8 programming.
* The week that Live 8 aired, June 27-July 3, was MTV's highest rated week
EVER (excluding weeks with MTV Video Music Awards or MTV Movie Awards
premieres).
* The broadcast also delivered nearly 2.2 million viewers on average, per
quarter hour, on both nets.

VH1:
* VH1, for P18-49 average, posted ratings that were +84% above the prior
4-week benchmark and +100% for total viewers (P2+).