4.2 million people watched daredevil Felix Baumgartner jump
from space on Discovery Channel Sunday afternoon according to data from
Nielsen, with an astonishing eight million people watching the jump live on
YouTube (shattering a record for the site).
Alex Weprin at TV Newser reports all told 12.65 million
people watched the jump live at the same time starting around 1:30 Sunday
afternoon. For comparison, that is almost twice as many people than any of the
MLB playoff games on TBS.
Discovery Channel and sister network Velocity had exclusive
live TV rights, though other channels, such as CNN, played video from the jump
leading up to and immediately after the jump.
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