Live 8 Broadcasts on TV, Radio and Internet
July 2nd, 2005
 


  
Worldwide

Online at AOL Music (no need to be a member of AOL to watch the show). They will have live streams from 6 of the shows, and will have on demand access to the shows for six weeks after they air.


UK

From the Live 8 website:

The BBC is the host broadcaster for LIVE 8 London with coverage across BBC ONE, TWO and THREE, with radio broadcasts on Radio's 1 and 2, the BBC World Service and across the BBC's regional stations.

Commercial Radio will also be broadcasting live from backstage at Hyde Park and The Museum of Art in Philadelphia, with reporters at every live 8 gig across the world, to an estimated audience of over 28million listeners across 200+ stations.

More info at the BBC website.


US

ABC will present a 2 hour highlight special on July 2nd at 8pm eastern / 7pm central.

VH1, MTV and MTVu will carry 8 hours live from Noon to 8pm eastern, 11am to 7pm central, 10am to 6pm mountain and 9am to 5pm pacific.

XM will broadcast each show on a different channel starting at 9am eastern. Here's the list -
London (channel 41), Paris (channel 42), Berlin (channel 43),  Rome (channel 44), Philadelphia (channel 45) and Barrie, Canada (channel 46).  The London show will also air on channel 201 and there will be global coverage on channel 200.

CMT and VH1 Classic will air highlights on July 3rd.

"WXRT in Chicago will broadcast Live8 beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. Can't say for sure but from their commercial it sounds like they'll be covering mostly the London show."



Argentina

"MTV Latino will be bradcasting live during the saturday afternoon. The Cure is in the list of Artist who they will broadcast.
 
FM Spika will air the festival on saturday.
 
Fans Argentinos, miren MTV durante todo el sabado (pasaron la propaganda incluyendo a The Cure).

Y escuchen FM Spika (la radio nueva), van a pasar el festival durante toda la tarde... no dijeron nada particular sobre The Cure... habra que
esperar..."



Australia


MMM (FM104) will air highlights from the shows on July 2nd starting at 11pm.

Fox8 will air the shows live from 9:30pm on July 2nd through 10am on July 3rd. They will also air a highlights show the following week.

The Nine Network will air highlights on July 3rd at 8:30pm.


Austria

ATV+ will be airing the show live from 4 pm for aprox. 11 hours.


Belgium

BETV will have live coverage.


Brazil

"MTV Brazil will broadcast it, starting at 9AM our time if I'm not wrong. They say it will be 10 hours of live broadcast. The ad says the name of the
main bands with mini-clips of each (2 seconds each or less) and Cure is there, with a bit of the footage of the 96 concert (no sound though)."


Canada

The Sound Source Network will will have global coverage, with updates from the Canadian show every half hour, starting at 1pm eastern.

"LIVE 8 it's being broadcasted on CTV....City TV is not transmitting..."



Czech Republic

Czech television CT 2 broadcasts Live 8  between 15:00 - 23:00 CET and 23:25 - 01:00 CET.


Finland

Finnish channel YLE Teema will broadcast 12 hours of Live 8 concerts july 2nd 4pm - july 3rd 4am. Also channel TV2 will be broadcasting bits of the concerts 5pm - 6pm, 6.45pm - 9pm and 10.20pm – 4am.
 

France

M6 will air the London show from 14:50 until 15:50, then air the Versailles show from 17:40 - 19:50 and 20:05 - 20:50. There will also be a Best of Live 8 special starting at 23:25.


Germany

MDR 14:00 - 17:30
RBB 14:00 - 19.25 & 00:00 - 03:50 (04.06.)
WDR 14:00 - 17:50
SWR 14:00 18:00
SR 14:00 - 18:00
PHOENIX 14:00 - 02:00
EinsFestival 20:15 - 02:15
ARD 01:35 - 05:25
NDR 00:00 - 01:30
HR 21:50 - 01:35
BR 02:50 - 06:40


TV PHOENIX will broadcast from 2pm onwards on saturday.

"These german tv-stations  will broadcast 'highlights' of the show:
NDR: 00:00 Uhr - 01:30 Uhr
ARD: 02./03. Juli 2005: 01:35 Uhr - 05:25 Uhr
(times may change... i got this info 'unofficially' from a ARD spokesman)."


Israel

Channel 10 will be broadcasting from 16:00 Saturday through 03:00 Sunday. Will be presented by Eden Harel, Aviad Kisos and Tal Berman.


Italy

Sky TV (Channel 109) will air the show live.

"Rai3 is broadcasting the concert switching from the different locations (something from Rome, something from London...something from Berlin...and so on...): obviously they are giving more space to Rome.

I haven't seen anything from Versailles till now, but I guess they will take some notice when the Cure are on stage... I hope so, at least..."



Japan

The world TV broadcast of the BBC footage of Live 8 will go out to Japan for the full 10 hours on CS Fuji channel 721, starting at 10pm Japan time, including at least 3 songs from Japan Live 8.

Japanese official website - http://www.live8.jp

Fuji TV - http://www.fujitv.co.jp/cs/live8/



Mexico

"MTV latin america will have coverage of the live 8 concerts all day long (july 2nd) not sure if they're showing all complete concerts but they do
mention the cure on their promo.."



The Netherlands

"Live stream on radio 3 FM the whole day!"


"BNN and the VARA will be broadcasting live 8 live from 14 till 2 pm on Nederland 3. The VARA website (ttp://omroep.vara.nl) says that the Hyde
park concert and the Philadelphia concert will be broadcasted live, while only highlights of concerts in the other cities will be shown. Sadly, they don't mention the Cure in the short list of artists playing in Versailles..."



Portugal

National tv (RTP) will broadcast the show starting at 14:15.


Sweden

"SVT will broadcast live from 15.00 - 01.00 at night. If I understood it right they are showing the same thing that BBC is."

"According to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet The Cure will play 00.49 (GMT +1h) on Swedish television. SVT will show the same thing as BBC as far as I know. In Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,667359,00.html"


 
Switzerland

"for switzerland, on channel drs3 they were talking about REM being broadcasted twice on july 2nd, live8 and a festival in switzerland, and they talked about other bands being broadcasted... didnt say who and where..."



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