A study from future sport + entertainment just attached a genuine 1 billion audience tag to a sporting event. Consistent with the newly crowned #1 broadcast on this list, the other events were all aired live and were powerful enough to garner worldwide interest.
5The euphoria at the crashing down of the Berlin Wall is amazing. Definitely one of the best parties in human history. Ranking #5, I'm going to assume it was the world tuning in for Regan's famous Tear down this wall speech. But instead of the Pres, let's check out David Hasselhoff—cherished treasure of Germans and Americans alike—rocking out at the Brandenburg Gate.
David Hasselhoff at Berlin Wall 1989
4On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, and the first black man to take the office. For a couple of hours, the world stopped to watch.
President Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address
Honorable mention to a video
that almost made this list:
SAS10 MASH Finale Promo One
3Her wedding was among the most watched TV events ever, but even more tuned in for Princess Diana's funeral after the world was shocked and saddened by her death.
PRINCESS DIANA Funeral Highlights
2The world stopped to watch the Apollo 11 mission land achieve the first moon landing in 1969. This is the event of Neil Armstrong's famous speech.
One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.
First Moon Landing 1969
1Just over 1 billion people tuned in for the airing of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. It's the only TV ever to break the billion barrier, and it was absolutely fantastic.
OPENING CEREMONY BEIJING 2008 1
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Isn’t Michael Jacksons funeral no 1 now? It broke the billion barrier too.
A satellite broadcast for an Elvis Presley show live from Hawaii, titled “Aloha from Hawaii” on January 14, 1973 is reported to have reached over 1 billion viewers globally.[39][40] Some breakdowns of the figures suggest 40% of the Japanese television audience,[41] and 91.8% of the television audience in the Philippines,[42] with an estimated 51% of the American television audience[41] when it aired later in America on April 4, 1973.[41][43]
Kay no i believe MJ’s funeral is #2. The funeral of Her Royal Highness’s Diana, Princess of Wales is #1 with over 2.5 BILLION People having watched it makeing it the most watch event on tv in history.
No doubt it´s Michael Jackson Funeral.
All major TV networks in word from Fox, CBS, CNN, MTV to Globo[Brazil], TPA[Angola] broadcasted it, most also did it in Diana funeral, but the internet streaming [CNN alone 9 milion, Facebook - 7 million, Justin.tv, Hulu setting their own records…
Diana got India, and most of Western world stopped.. but many TV networks in Asia, Africa and Middle East didn´t broadcast it. And no Internet option at the time…
Elvis and Neil Amstrong didn´t have that much TV sets in most of Asia and Africa by their time and no Broadband available but they scored the highest possible for their time ….
China Olympics don´t make Me Laugh, even though close 1 billion Chinese viewers is a strong number didn´t bounce internet traffic… and many networks wheren´t broadcasting.
Here goes the true list:
#1 - Michael Jackson Funeral
#2 - Diana Funeral
#3 - Obama Inaguration
#4 - Beijing 2008 Olympics
# 5- Man landing in the moon
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1.8 billion just watched barcelona - real madrid + millions probably over the internet
This concert is the most viewed spectacle in Earth’s history. This was simultaneously viewed/tuned by 1.67billion individual T.V. sets. In this year 1973, the Earth’s total population was 3.93billion compared with April 2009’s 6.77billion…. The total number of television sets worldwide was estimated then at 3.2billion. Therefore 52.2% of all television sets worldwide were tuned to this one event. It is worth noting that these figures represent the broadcast event at simultaneous transmission, many countries and provinces only picked up the broadcast several days later, most reliable figures available estimate this to be a further 793million sets, therefore totalling 2.46billion or 77% of all televisions on Earth. Assuming half of the T.V. sets had more than one (taken as 2, this measurement method is an industry standard) people viewing them, allowing thus for family viewing, then best estimates put this at a global viewing (at broadcast) figure of 2.51billion people or 64% of the Earth’s population viewing the same event at the same moment in time. This record has stood over 35 years and is likely to stand until a suitably epic event occurs.
oops, Elvis Aloha from Hawaii