AOL Wins Daytime Emmy for Live 8 Broadcasts

Timed with the G8 summit in Scotland, the Live 8 concerts were held on July 2, 2005, in ten cities around the world: London, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Toronto, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Moscow and Cornwall with the goal to “make poverty history.”

As the exclusive online partner, AOL brought together a worldwide audience for a groundbreaking simultaneous on-demand broadcast of the Live 8 concerts from multiple cities. For the record-setting broadcasts of the Live 8 concerts, AOL won the first Daytime Emmy in the new nontraditional broadband delivery platform category.