Friday, January 22, 2010, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
ET
PBS presents the global telethon HOPE FOR HAITI NOW. Wyclef Jean
will join George Clooney and CNN's Anderson Cooper in hosting MTV
Networks' HOPE FOR HAITI NOW, to air commercial-free across a
wide range of TV outlets on Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m.
ET/PT. The telethon will be hosted by Clooney in Los Angeles, Jean
in New York and Cooper in Haiti. All donations will directly
benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and
Wyclef's Yele Haiti Foundation. HOPE FOR HAITI NOW will feature
performances and celebrity appearances to be announced as well as
live news reports from CNN.
Though the televised event airs Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT and 7
p.m. CT, HOPE FOR HAITI NOW will begin accepting
donations at 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT on Friday, January 22 via
the following methods:
• Online: www.hopeforhaitinow.org
• Phone: 877‐99‐HAITI
• Text: Text "GIVE" to 50555
• Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry
Foundation, 1201 West 5th Street, Suite T‐700, Los Angeles,
CA 90017
In addition to PBS, HOPE FOR HAITI NOW will air on ABC, CBS,
NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, VH1, CMT, TNT, Showtime,
Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic
Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX,
Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en
Español, HBO Latino, and Canadian networks including CBC
Television, CTV, Global Television, and MuchMusic. The event will
be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube,
Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com,
CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, and Rhapsody and on mobile via Alltel,
AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and FloTV. HOPE FOR HAITI NOW will also
air internationally on BET International, CNN International,
National Geographic, and MTV Networks International.
More info is available on www.hopeforhaitinow.org
and MTV.com.
