2007 MTV Video Music Awards Scores 6.4 Rating Up 23% From 2006 Telecast

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2007 MTV Video Music Awards Scores 6.4 Rating Up 23% From 2006 Telecast
    MTV.com Also Sets Record Numbers in Both Unique Visitors and Streams

    NEW YORK, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV: The 2007 VMAs delivered a 6.40
P12-34, growing 23% vs. last year's awards.
    Plus, the 2007 VMAs are now the highest rated telecast on ad-supported
cable year-to-date among P12-34.
    The show averaged 7,081,653 viewers P2+ (up 23% versus last year) and
4,999,060 P12-34 viewers.
    MTV.com set record numbers in both unique visitors and streams.
    MTV.com Uniques: MTV.com registered 2.6MM unique visitors yesterday, 40
percent higher than last year on the day of the VMAs and by far the site's
highest-trafficked day ever. In fact, traffic to the site yesterday beat
the previous all-time record holder -- last year's day-after VMAs -- by 32
percent.
    Streams: MTV.com has topped its day after VMA record of 6.7M streams
with today's delivery of over 7M total streams as of 3:30pm. For 9/09/07,
the on demand show delivered a total of 871K streams up to midnight through
MTV.com and MTV's syndicated video player which includes MTV's streams on
other sites. And as of 3:30pm on Monday there have been 6M streams for the
2007 MTV Video Music Awards On-Demand.
    ***PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL HAVE A MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS LATER TODAY
***
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SOURCE MTV.com
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