Worldwide Live 8 coverage set for airwaves, online

Television, radio, and the Internet will provide ready access to Live 8 concerts throughout the day tomorrow.

MTV, VH1, and MTV's college network mtvU will run a shared feed from noon to 8 p.m., a first-time effort for the networks. Their coverage will include highlights of various performances, interviews with participating artists and fans, and taped segments looking at the original 1985 Live Aid concert and other news. This coverage will mark the longest period MTV has gone live for a televised event since Woodstock '99.

ABC plans to broadcast a two-hour special tomorrow at 8 p.m. which will highlight various performances.

On the Internet, AOL will stream live video coverage of all 10 concerts on different channels, beginning at 9 a.m. Viewers, who don't have to be subscribers, can go to www.aolmusic.com and select the concert they want to watch. AOL will also offer online feeds on-demand for six weeks after the event.

Clear Channel Communications' Premiere Radio Networks subsidiary will broadcast pop and rock feeds on WHEB-FM (100.3) and WBMX-FM (98.5), beginning at 9 a.m. The broadcasts will include interviews with performers and coverage of developments backstage at various venues.

XM Satellite Radio will broadcast six concerts live on channels 41 to 46 (London, Philadelphia, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Toronto). It will also provide a broader look at the global events on channels 40 and 200, beginning at 7 a.m.

SUZANNE C. RYAN