Thanks NASA: Ustream tops cable news
- 3.2 millionusers watched the official NASA broadcast of Curiosity’s Mars landing on UStream
- 500,000 users tuned in during the Ustream broadcast’s peak point, via several different content streams source
» Those numbers were enough to beat the Nielsen ratings almost every major cable news network — including CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC — leaving Fox News as the lone out-performer with 803,000 viewers. The folks at UStream don’t seem to think it was a fluke either. “This speaks to how much more sophisticated social media tools are getting on the web,” said company spokesman Tony Riggins, adding, “Consumers are adapting technologies to get news now from sources like Ustream.”
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