Barack Obama gave his first post-election news conference today. TV Networks WUSA 9 and Kare 11 broadcast the event online, live from Chicago, drawing an audience of more than 8000 simultaneous viewers.

WUSA 9′ s Mogulus channel 9newsnow was also embeded on USA Today’s On Politics blog.

The recording of the video is available on WUSA 9′s website.

Major news networks have broadcast tonight the 2008 US Presidential Election with Mogulus. Established publications, TV Networks, and other top news sources have provided viewers with premium election coverage, some for more than 10 hours today.

This has been a historic event, and a premiere for many news institutions which have recently integrated online broadcasting to their editorial/coverage strategy. Mogulus has reached unprecedented diversity of broadcasts covering the same event, with an simultaneous audience peaking at 87,178, and we’re proud to have been the first choice for these professional journalists and reporters.

Here are some screenshots from a few of our channels.

CSPAN, WUSA9, USA TODAY, KARE 11, NECN and Hawaian TV network KGMB9 used Mogulus to broadcast their official live stream of the Vice President debate on their web site. Some retransmitted the official feed while others such as CSPAN had behind the scene cameras broadcasting from the debate press room.

Here are some screenshots of their coverage using the Mogulus player :

On the other side of the border, Canadians were watching their own Presidential debate on Ontario Global New’s decision2008 Mogulus channel.

The 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at the Pentagon was broadcast live this morning on WUSA9‘s Mogulus channel, 9newsnow.

Thousands of viewers watched the channel, which was embedded on several websites including DesMoinesRegister.com, and USA Today’s “On Deadline” blog.

Several Gannett properties are covering the Hurricanes with Mogulus. We decided therefore to create a special grid, with 6 live channels, that could be embeded anywhere and would give the most complete coverage possible to viewers.
Click here to view it on Mogulus.

You can also watch it on the following websites. The list is not exhaustive and we’ll update you with more links as it happens.
-tampabays10.com
-lansingstatejournal.com
-wkyc.com
-news10.net
-wbir.com
-wzzm13.com
-13wmaz.com
-todaysthv.com
-ksdk.com
-firstcoastnews.com
-digtriad.com

Over the weekend, Beet TV has already commented this live grid.

We look forward to releasing similar innovative widgets in the future, and provide viewers with the best TV and web tools combined!

To make sure you don’t miss a minute of the Democratic National Convention, here’s a quick list of all the places you can watch (and re-watch) the live and on-demand coverage of the DNC.

USA Today has been broadcasting many interviews and speeches, and will be providing even more exclusive broadcasts in the coming days. Antonio Villaraigosa, David Paterson, Chris Van Hollen, Eric Holder, Gavin Newsom, Ted Kennedy were live these last 2 days . Check out the channel dem_convention08_speeches, and the On Politics blog for the next USA Today broadcasts.

Also covering the DNC are:
- The Denver Post
- Fox 31
- Florida Today
- The News-Press
- The Uptake
- Progressive Democrats of America
- The Denver Channel

And don’t forget to check out the grid on our homepage, and use the search tool to find all of the DNC TV channels.