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HURRICANE SANDY BENEFIT CONCERT AIMS FOR 2 BILLION VIEWERS WORLDWIDE
MSN ^ | 12/12/2012

Posted on 12/12/2012 5:28:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, The Who, Roger Waters, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Kanye West and many other artists will perform at the benefit to the Robin Hood Relief Fund and victims of Hurricane Sandy. The broadcast will be accessible by an estimated 2 billion people worldwide, according to the concert's website http://www.121212concert.org.

U.S. television viewers will have a difficult time missing the event. The broadcast will be carried on 34 channels, from AMC to VH1 Classic. Even pay channels HBO and Showtime 2 and the newsy Bloomberg will carry the broadcast.

But not all networks will carry the event. Fox will air a two-hour semi-final of "The X-Factor." NBC, CBS and ABC will carry on with their normal Wednesday evening schedules. The benefit concert will air on the CBS station WLNY in-TV in New York and the CW station in Philadelphia, however. A handful of local PBS stations in New York and New Jersey will also carry the broadcast.

The live webcast will be carried by 30 different websites, including YouTube, MTV.com, MySpace, Yahoo, Yahoo, Vevo, AOL, Hulu, People.com and BMI.com.

In the U.S., free tickets to view the simulcast in movie theaters will be given away at select theaters in storm-affected areas. Simulcasts can be viewed around the country at Cinemark Theaters for the price of a regular Child admission. All of the proceeds will go toward the Robin Hood Relief Fund.

The broadcast will also be seen in countries around the world. MTV and VH1 will carry the telecast in Canada, Latin America, the U.K., France, Australia and dozens of other countries. Numerous channels will carry the concert in Japan, Korea, Tawain, India and Africa

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies; Weather
KEYWORDS: concert; hurricane; hurricanesandy; hurricansandyrelief; relief; sandy
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To: SeekAndFind

The Rev. Jacksonnnnnnnnnn is apparently answering phones.


21 posted on 12/12/2012 5:54:52 PM PST by matt04
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To: NonValueAdded

Me too. And Springsteen is a commie. I’ll give directly to where its needed, I don’t need no stinking old rock and rollers to get me to donate. And Kanye West cn go $^^^#* himself. Along with Beyonce and that 1%er thang she calls a husband.
RObin Hood fund indeed. I wonder how much of that actually makes it to those in need.


22 posted on 12/12/2012 5:55:10 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And just who is it supposed to benefit? The loser bands that get the free publicity?


23 posted on 12/12/2012 5:56:40 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: nascarnation

http://www.robinhood.org/rhsandy

Note the beneficiary organizations, particularly the first one.


24 posted on 12/12/2012 5:57:57 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I just heard someone singing “Hallelujah, Sandy Screw Ya...”

Tooooo weird.


25 posted on 12/12/2012 6:00:19 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

It was Adam Sandler, it was actually pretty funny


27 posted on 12/12/2012 6:04:39 PM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: SeekAndFind

This will probably turn out like those concerts for famine relief where the entertainers got piles of bling, royal weekends with all the caviar they could eat and all the booze they could drink along with tons of publicity while the starving refugees got a few bags of rice dropped from a cargo plane.


28 posted on 12/12/2012 6:04:57 PM PST by doodles2 (Pigtails too tight)
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To: SeekAndFind

Where are the concerts when countries like Bangla Desh, India etal are devestated by typhoons? Or even other disasters throughout the US such as wildfires and crippling snowstorms?


29 posted on 12/12/2012 6:08:02 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (the mature Christian is almost impossible to offend)
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To: SeekAndFind

So let’s see, Springsteen cheated on his first wife with a member of the band, she is now his wife, then he cheated on her with a member of the band recently, Bon Jovi STOLE some $15 Million dollars from the Last charity he started, Kanye West Hates America and proudly proclaims so, Why in the world would ANYBODY patronize these worthless Human Beings is beyond me. Find a Reputable charity to donate to if you wish, but these people are died in the wool Communists and They all Proudly Proclaim so. Ther are the Scum of the Earth, and yes I lost what little respect I had for Governor Christie after his juvenile display when the met the 3 time ADULTERER.


30 posted on 12/12/2012 6:15:07 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: fatnotlazy

Leftist/Racist groups. I’ll pass.


31 posted on 12/12/2012 6:16:18 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: SeekAndFind

It’ll be funny to see how much foreigners contribute.


32 posted on 12/12/2012 6:17:26 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: fatnotlazy

Let’s see the cash is going to to go to the SEIU, American Friend Service Committee and others. I’ll pass.


33 posted on 12/12/2012 6:18:42 PM PST by matt04
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Floyd was awesome, some great comedy by Adam Sandler with Paul Schaeffer, watching “Bon Jovi” with “Springsteen”, and have not vomited yet.

Dave Grohl on the horizon, and this is not a Wellstone funeral by any means.


34 posted on 12/12/2012 6:22:11 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: SeekAndFind
If Sandy states had supported ABO I would help, but they chose big government, so they get what they wanted and it was Obama not “we the people”
35 posted on 12/12/2012 6:25:07 PM PST by GizzyGirl
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To: Rome2000

Performers have been good so far. Places the cash seem sot be going, not so much. The live streams have been awful.


36 posted on 12/12/2012 6:25:32 PM PST by matt04
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To: fatnotlazy

OK that retarded communist son of a whore Jon Stewart is on stage, this is officially a communist party event.

Robin Hood Foundation, steal from the rich to give to the lazy and stupid.


37 posted on 12/12/2012 6:29:27 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Rome2000

If I donated to this it will further communism. If I flushed money down the toilet it will just be wasted. Guess which would be a higher use of money. I don’t choose either, but I would flush it before donating to communists.


38 posted on 12/12/2012 6:31:11 PM PST by MtnClimber (I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
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To: nascarnation

Take a look at their Board of Directors, pretty much says it all


39 posted on 12/12/2012 6:35:03 PM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: MtnClimber

Do not donate...buy guns. Protect your family and the Constitution...restore America.


40 posted on 12/12/2012 6:38:30 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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