Carolina Week's most-watched

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:27:40 -0400

Carla Babb's report on John Edwards will air tonight.

But the UNC-Chapel Hill journalism student's piece is probably already the most-watched Carolina Week segment in history, thanks to YouTube.

By Friday morning, her piece had only been viewed about 300 times online. As Dome and the Associated Press reported on it, it slowly moved up to about 2,000 by dinnertime.

Then, in a few short hours, it jumped to 20,000, then 30,000 and finally hit 53,000 shortly before midnight, thanks in part to a link from The Drudge Report.

Over the weekend, the numbers kept accumulating, in part due to coverage in The New York Times and the N&O and links from blogs.

By 10:30 a.m. today, the video had been seen 145,525 times.

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