Wednesday, June 22, 2005

America Online licenses Live 8 TV, radio rights

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News:

America Online on Wednesday said it licensed the rights to broadcast Live 8, a series of free international concerts, to Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks, Clear Channel Communications Inc.'s Premiere Radio Networks and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.

America Online, a unit of Time Warner Inc., is the primary North American media partner and exclusive online broadcaster for Live 8, which will be held on July 2 in Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, with an aim of pressuring the leaders of the G8 group of countries, comprising the world's leading industrial nations plus Russia, to eliminate third world debt, increase aid to Africa and adopt fair trade practices.

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