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'2002 MTV Video Music Awards' will air live from Radio City
Music Hall in New York on 29 August, it has been announced.
It
was also announced that out of respect for the first anniversary
of the events of 11 September the show will move for this
year only up one week to 29 August 2002 at 8 pm (ET/PT).
Historically, the Video Music Awards have aired on the first
Thursday in September.
The 2002 MTV Video Music Awards will be available to a potential
viewing audience of over 1 billion people via MTV's 35 channels
reaching 382.1 million households around the world as well
as through syndication, an official release states.
MTV also announced that Salli Frattini and Dave Sirulnick
will return as executive producers and Alex Coletti will
return as show producer. Last year, more than 50 million
viewers in the United States tuned in to watch the Video
Music Awards programming week.
Ballots for "2002 MTV Video Music Awards" will be sent out
to an exclusive industry group and viewers who will determine
nominees for the telecast.
Approximately 500 viewers and individuals representing record
labels, music journalists and video producers, select the
nominees for awards categories encompassing such wide-ranging
contemporary music forms as rap, dance, R&B and alternative.
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