Sirius XM Radio Inc. is joining with the Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) Campaign to broadcast its "Just Stand Up" national fundraising event, live tonight starting at 8pm ET.
Sirius Hits 1 (ch 1), XM's 20 on 20 (ch 20) and XM's The Pink Channel (ch 24) will join ABC, CBS and NBC to air the "Just Stand Up" event live from 8pm-9pm ET.
This will be the first simultaneous cross-network commercial-free national simulcast, ever, to raise funds for the fight against a disease.
The hour-long live broadcast will feature a who's who from the worlds of music, film, television and sports, including the premiere performance of "Just Stand Up," the charity single recorded in support of SU2C that features more than a dozen of the world's most accomplished female recording artists - including Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, LeAnn Rimes, and Carrie Underwood.
Aside from the cast of ntwork news anchors (Charles Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams) celebrities confirmed for the broadcast (both for personal appearances or answering telephone calls) include: Casey Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Christina Applegate, Lance Armstrong, Abigail Breslin, Josh Brolin, David Cook, Katie Couric, Dana Delany, Fran Drescher, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kirsten Dunst, Elizabeth Edwards, Jon Favreau, America Ferrera, Charles Gibson, Neil Patrick Harris, Salma Hayek, Scarlett Johansson, Masi Oka, Danica Patrick, Christina Ricci, Robin Roberts, Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Charlize Theron, Goran Visnjic, Forest Whitaker, Brian Williams and Reese Witherspoon.
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Why couldn't the NFL (Giants vs. Redskins) been on both XM and Sirius last night? This is outrageous. Mel, get it together!
because Sirius has a contract with the NFL and in order for Xm to air NFL games the contract needs to be tweaked in order for this to occur
Wow. You mean, all it ever would have taken to beat back the scourge of cancer is for a bunch of money-hoarding, navel-gazing celebutards to preen together for the cameras while, like, just standing up? So long as some magical number of media outlets all covered the non-event event together, then cancer would just -- POOF! -- disappear?
I can understand the participants in this monumental idiocy believing in the power of their own believing (insipid though they may be, there's an awful lot of truth at play in those McCain "celebrity" ads), but why in the world would (one would tend to think) sober, reasonable business types surrender their facilities to promote this pointlessness?
And, for the love of all that is lovable, why does XM have to air it on TWO channels? I mean, let the CC suits make fools of themselves -- it is, after all, what they do best -- but XM proper should keep right on doing the stuff that makes XM great.
Aw, well... at least satrad isn't quite as in the tank as it was for Live 8 and that Algore nightmare a couple years back...
Stop whining...! Having lost both of my parents to cancer, I applaud all of them for at least trying to bring some sort of attention to the issue.
Their attention might get a few people to open their wallets and help, and perhaps even better, learn more about it and actually do something additional.
But then, ykw, I'm sure you've thought of these things.
Can we donate SIRI stock? It's pretty much useless anyways.
Fluff, you want to see all channels on both services now. We get it.