The monumental music event Live Earth will bring together more than 2 billion people on July 7, 2007 to combat the climate crisis. Live Earth will stage concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, and will feature more than 150 of the world’s best music acts – a mix of both legendary music acts like The Police, Genesis, Bon Jovi and Madonna with the latest headliners like Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas and Jack Johnson.
Live Earth's 24 hours of music across 7 continents will deliver a worldwide call to action and the solutions necessary to answer that call. Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis. Live Earth is partnering with the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group, Stop Climate Chaos and other international organizations in this ongoing effort. Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, CEO of Control Room, the company producing the concerts globally. Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection and a Partner of Live Earth.
Official Live Earth concerts will be streamed live by MSN. If you are looking for other events broadcast live online, jump over to
Find Internet TV to check out their guide.
Streaming media production company Incited Media provides production services for a number of online events, including regular programming for Control Room, the global producers of Live Earth. Control Room commissioned Incited to develop a state-of-the-art process that will enable MSN to broadcast around the world for the multi-venue Live Earth concert live and on-demand via their computers.
Incited's team of roughly 80 technicians will be streaming nine live feeds (eight stages plus a world feed) to MSN. Incited will have 7 EVS systems editing individual songs and 27 servers in a VOD encoding "farm" going at all times as well as 24 live encoders for the Windows Media and QuickTime streams.