MTV & BET & Katrina
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What can I do to help? That’s what all Americans are saying today.
As we all know, the victims of Hurricane Katrina are attempting to recover from this catastrophic event. Individually, collectively, and as an industry we are seeking to support every effort to help the people devastated by Katrina. We know you feel the same way.
Join MTV Networks and BET this weekend so that together we can mobilize millions of Americans to raise funds and support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina through three major on-air programming events.
BET and BET Jazz will be airing a commercial-free telethon Friday, September 9th at 7:30pm ET, in partnership with the National Urban League. The telethon will feature a roster of superstar artists, many with ties to the affected areas, including Wynton Marsalis, Master P, David Banner, Juvenile, Baby and Lil Wayne (Cash Money) along with Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons, Alicia Keys, Diddy, Jay Z, Kanye West, Island Def Jam Music Group Chairman Antonio “L.A.†Reid, Common, Usher, Nick Cannon, Omarion, Pharrell Williams, Ciara, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Avant, Gerald Levert, Lyfe, Twista, Stevie Wonder, Brandy, Wyclef, Erykah Badu, Al and Star Jones Reynolds, Chris Rock and more.
MTV, VH1, CMT, and MTV2 have organized a massive relief concert for Saturday, September 10th from 8-11pm ET/PT, broadcasting commercial-free from New York, LA, and Nashville. We’ve got performances and appearances from amazing artists – The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, Green Day, Usher, Alicia Keys, Gretchen Wilson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Motley Crue, The Neville Brothers, Melissa Ethridge and many more. MTV2, mtvU, VH1 Classic, and our broadband networks, MTV Overdrive and VH1’s VSpot, will all simulcast the concert.
Nickelodeon has created a Nick News special for Sunday, September 11 at 8:30pm ET, to help explain what happened, to talk about how it has affected kids, to share children’s efforts to help, and to talk about what kids can do now. Interstitials will direct kids to updated relief information and ways to get involved. Nickelodeon is also partnering with the “Do Something” organization to launch an effort called “We’ve Got Your Back” asking kids to fill and donate backpacks with school supplies, personal care items and water. These backpacks will be distributed to kids in the affected region.
All proceeds raised from these efforts will go to the American Red Cross.
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