Star-studded line-up to broadcast "Hope for Haiti"

Partners In Health will be one of the organizations benefiting from the most widely distributed telethon in history, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief.

Hosted by MTV on Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET, the two-hour telethon will feature performances from a superstar lineup, including Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, and Justin Timberlake. In addition to musical performances, more than 100 of the biggest names in film, television, including George Clooney, Anderson Cooper, and Wyclef Jean, will share their own stories, and answer phones during the telethon.

The program will air on dozens of networks—from ABC to the National Geographic Channel. (And PIH supporters in China, take note: This is the first U.S.-based telethon airing on MTV in China.) If you can’t get to a TV, the event will be streamed online on YouTube, Hulu, Myspace, CNN.com, MTV.com, and many other sites.

So tune in Friday, help out, and see some amazing performances. Money raised from the event will be split evenly among various relief, recovery, and development organizations—including PIH, the Red Cross, Yele Haiti, and others.  Performances from the telethon will go on sale for 99 cents on iTunes starting Saturday, January 23; those proceeds will also go directly to relief and long-term recovery in Haiti.

Our teams are treating as many patients as they can, and our greatest need currently is financial aid. Money from the event will be used to transport food, fuels, and medical supplies to our teams on the ground and to begin the process of rebuilding communities and strengthening health systems in the months to come. We’re grateful to you—and to MTV—for your support.   

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Networks airing Hope for Haiti Now include:

ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, 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, which is available in 640 million homes worldwide.  “Hope for Haiti Now” will be available non-exclusively to all terrestrial radio stations around the globe and SIRIUS XM Radio as a one time only radio broadcast via the MTV Radio Network and Westwood One.