3 Televised Benefit Concerts for Victims Are Announced - The first show is to air Friday. The disjointed approach by Hollywood is blamed on haste.Interesting about the lack of response... but I expect the celebrity count to grow. I sure hope so; it's the least they could do after the VMA's.
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NEW YORK — Horrified by the mounting toll of Hurricane Katrina, an array of musicians and prominent entertainers are jumping to participate in a series of relief concerts that will benefit victims in the devastated Gulf Coast region.
But the efforts have been less unified than Hollywood's response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when dozens of stars participated in a single two-hour telethon that ran simultaneously on all the broadcast television networks and more than 31 cable channels. That event, which drew close to 90 million viewers, raised more than $100 million for victims.
This time, NBC Universal and Viacom Inc. announced plans Wednesday to televise separate benefit concerts in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, ABC, CBS and Fox are putting together their own event for early next week, according to officials at the networks, which NBC said it would gladly participate in too.
The first benefit is scheduled to be held Friday night, when NBC hosts "A Concert for Hurricane Relief," featuring artists with ties to the region. The hour-long telethon will air live at 8 p.m. EDT (and tape-delayed at 8 p.m. on the West Coast) on NBC and its sister cable channels MSNBC and CNBC.
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