TORONTO – Sound Source Networks, a division of Standard Broadcasting, has secured exclusive national radio broadcast rights for Live 8 July 2nd, 2005 for radio stations across Canada.
Satellite broadcast feeds will beam into Toronto studios from every major concert venue: London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Philadelphia and Barrie, Ontario. Worldwide coverage begins at 1 p.m. EST. The free concerts are intended to raise awareness on African poverty and to pressure member governments of the G8 to forgive the debt of developing nations.
Canadian fans not fortunate enough to win Live 8 tickets through Ticketmaster.ca (all of them were gone in less than 30 minutes) will still be able to win tickets via local Toronto Standard radio stations: MIX 99.9, 97.3 EZ Rock and Newstalk 1010 CFRB.
Standard Radio’s coverage includes:
* Live updates (MIX 99.9/97.3 EZ Rock) from Barrie every half hour
* Live interviews from Standard Broadcasting’s Mobile Media Command Centre (Studio 1010 – Newstalk 1010 CFRB)
* Continuous live feeds from every major LIVE 8 concert venue
“Standard Radio is committed to ‘Make Poverty History’ and we are proud to make this profound event available to listeners across Canada. In the words of Sir Bob Geldof; ‘We are all on this mad adventure to change the world, and I think we’re almost there.’ Saturday July 2nd, think globally, tune in locally, and help ‘Make Poverty History’,” says the Standard press release.
Standard Broadcasting is Canada’s largest privately owned multi-media company. Standard consists of; 51 radio stations, two television stations, IMS, a national sales division; Sound Source, Canada’s largest syndicator of radio programming; and Icebergradio, Canada’s largest online radio portal.
