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There were about 240,000 concurrent users on the web feed at touchdown. But not a single TV news channel was covering the event live that I could find.

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I'm not much of a sports fan. I have no "home team". Football doesn't even raise an eyebrow for me. I haven't even watched the Olympics.

But I haven't sat down for the last hour. I paced like an animal and I've just finished jumping up and down, yelling like a mad-boy.

The whole thing was so hair-brained. Giant supersonic parachutes? Blast-away heat shields? Rocket Powered Sky Cranes? It was so damn Wile E. Coyote. And they totally nailed it. I'm awestruck.

CNN was covering it live with interviews with scientists etc. Coverage continues, there is a press conference in a few minutes.

I think CNN covered it, but you're right, it would have been nice if it were on at least one major network.

cnn.com is, but they're just repeating the nasa feed unmodified.

Frankly that is better than any alternative they are really in a position to provide. I am sure it was hard for them to resist talking over it reading a bunch of tweets.

Be thankful.

They could have cutover to Ryan Seacrest interviewing a rock.

They missed out on some ratings gold, there.

ustream was showing an even higher number of 11.4m viewers

That is total views on the NASA ustream channel

That's total. Live concurrent viewers was around 240k.

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