Hope for Haiti Now This Friday

Thu, January 21, 2010 
Posted in Program Highlights, Schedule Updates

PBS and KAKM 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 PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT on Friday, January 22.

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.

Hope for Haiti Now will preempt Washington Week, Now and Bill Moyers Journal and be shown during the following times:

Washington Week airs Saturday at midnight, Sunday at 3:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Now airs Saturday at 12:30 a.m. and Sunday at 3:30 a.m. and noon.

Bill Moyers Journal airs Saturday at 1:00 a.m. and  Sunday at 4:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

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