Awards to air LIVE on Sunday, June 29th on
BET from Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, CA
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
BET's "106 & PARK" today revealed Emmy and GRAMMY® Award winning
comedian Chris Rock as the host for this year's "BET Awards" 2014
airing live on Sunday, June 29th at 8pm ET on BET from the
Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, CA.
"I watch the BET Awards every year. It's one of my favorite award shows
combining people from movies, sports, TV and music," said Chris Rock.
"Where else can you get Rick Ross and Michelle Obama in the same room?!
The BET Awards is like a party where nothing is off-limits. My peers
have done the show, now it's my turn."
"We've been trying to make this happen for a VERY long while, and we're
ecstatic that Chris Rock will be the host of the BET Awards for the
first time," Stephen Hill, President of Music Programming and Specials
at BET, said. "Mr. Rock is a comedic genius with a rapier wit who is a
keen observer of pop culture. We're looking forward to what he is to
unleash on June 29th. You will definitely want to meet us at
the BET Awards."
Lauded by awards and critics alike, Chris Rock is one of our
generation's strongest comedic voices. The Brooklyn-raised comedian has
garnered four Emmy Awards, three GRAMMY® Awards, is listed as number
five on Comedy Central's "100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time" and was
honored in 2006 with HBO's esteemed "Comedian Award."
Rock's film credits include "Madagascar," "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"
and "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," "Grown Ups," "2 Days In New
York," "Death at a Funeral," "Nurse Betty," "Beverly Hills Cop II,"
"Boomerang," "Panther," "New Jack City," "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!,"
"Lethal Weapon 4," "Dogma," "Bad Company," "Down to Earth," "I Think I
Love My Wife," "The Longest Yard" and "Dr. Doolittle." Rock competed at
the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as a first-time documentary filmmaker
for his film, "Good Hair." The critically-acclaimed film won the
Sundance "Special Jury Prize," the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding
Documentary" and was named "Top Five Documentaries of 2009" by the
National Board of Review.
In 2011, Rock made his Broadway debut starring in Stephen Adly Guirgis's The
Motherf**ker With The Hat. Rock hosted the 77th Annual Academy
Awards in 2005, as well as the MTV Video Music Awards in 1999 and 2003.
Rock's debut book, Rock This, spent time on
both The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
The BET Experience VIP Package offers the only way to purchase a "BET
Awards" ticket, great seats to 3 nights of concerts at the Staples
Center, and exclusive access to events at the free Fan Fest. For more
information, including exclusive hotel rates, and to purchase tickets,
go to BET.com/BETX.
A full list of the BET Award 2014 nominations is now available at www.BET.com.
Stephen G. Hill, BET's President of Music Programming and Specials, and
Lynne Harris Taylor, BET's Vice President of Specials, will serve as
Executive Producers for the "BET Awards," along with Jesse Collins, CEO
of Jesse Collins Entertainment.
The "BET Awards" 2014 will broadcast live on Sunday, June 29th
at 8pm ET on BET from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, CA.
The BET Awards 2014 will premiere internationally on BET's international
network on July 1st, 2014 at 8:00pm GMT (Check local
listings).
The "BET Awards" will take place along with the BET Experience in Los
Angeles from June 27-29th. BET.com/Awards
is the official site for the "BET Awards" and will have all the latest
news and updates about this year's show. All information about the BET
Experience at L.A. LIVE presented by Coca-Cola® can be found at BETExperience.com.
The BET Experience VIP Package offers the only way to purchase a BET
Awards ticket, great seats to 3 nights of concerts at the Staples
Center, and exclusive access to events at the free Fan Fest. For more
information and to purchase tickets, go to BET.com/BETX. Follow the
Experience on Twitter @betexperience.
ABOUT BET NETWORKS
BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIA.B), is the
nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and
public affairs television programming for the African-American audience.
The primary BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can
be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom
and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer
brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading
Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news;
CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to
54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks - BET Gospel
and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment
tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings
for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event
Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with
festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides
ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET
International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the
extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
BET EXPERIENCE AT L.A. LIVE
BET Networks, an entertainment powerhouse, and AEG, one of the leading
entertainment companies in the world and developer/operator of L.A.
LIVE, have teamed up once again to create the BET EXPERIENCE AT L.A.
LIVE (BETX), June 27 - 29, 2014 presented by Coca-Cola®. This three-day
festival will be filled with music and comedy concerts taking place at
Club Nokia and STAPLES Center; "106 & PARK" tapings in Nokia Plaza L.A.
LIVE; BET Fan Fest at the Los Angeles Convention Center including
seminars, celebrity basketball games, celebrity meet & greets; GRAMMY®
Museum exhibits and other special appearances. The weekend will be
capped off with the "BET Awards" on Sunday, June 29, 2014 at Nokia
Theatre L.A. LIVE.
ABOUT "BET AWARDS"
The BET AWARDS is one of the most watched award shows on cable
television according to the Nielsen Company. The BET AWARDS franchise
remains as the #1 program in cable TV history among African-Americans,
and it is BET's #1 telecast every year. It recognizes the triumphs and
successes of artists, entertainers, and athletes in a variety of
categories.
ABOUT JESSE COLLINS ENTERTAINMENT:
Jesse Collins Entertainment is a full service television and film
production company founded by entertainment industry veteran Jesse
Collins. For more than a decade, Collins, the company's CEO, has played
an integral role in producing some of television's most memorable
moments in music entertainment. Formerly Executive Producer/EVP of
Cossette Productions, Collins has produced ground-breaking and
award-winning television programming including the BET Awards, the
GRAMMY Awards, BET Honors, The UNCF Evening of Stars and the BET Hip Hop
Awards. Collins currently Exec. Produces "The Real Husbands of
Hollywood," (now going into its 4th hit season) alongside
industry Icons Stan Lathan and Ralph Farquhar; and has worked with
superstar talent such as Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye
West, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Prince, Mariah Carey and many more.
About AEG
AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the
world. AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, owns or
is affiliated with a collection of companies including over 100 of the
world's preeminent facilities such as STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, CA),
StubHub Center (Carson, CA), Best Buy Theater (Times Square, New York),
Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai, China), Allphones Arena (Sydney,
Australia), Brisbane Convention and Entertainment Center and The O2
arena and entertainment district (London, England). Developed by AEG,
L.A. LIVE is a 4 million square foot / $3 billion downtown Los Angeles
sports, & entertainment district featuring Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, Club
Nokia, the Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 theater, 19 restaurants
the GRAMMY Museum and a 54-story, 1001-room convention "headquarters"
hotel/destination. In addition to overseeing privately held management
shares of the Los Angeles Lakers, assets of AEG Sports include
franchises such as the LA Kings, LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo and the
Amgen Tour of California cycling stage race. Along with AEG Facilities,
other global divisions include AEG Live, the world's second largest
concert promotion and touring companies comprised of touring, festival,
exhibition, broadcast, merchandise and special event divisions and AEG
Global Partnerships, responsible for worldwide sales and servicing of
sponsorships, naming rights and other strategic partnerships. In 2010,
AEG launched its AEG 1EARTH environmental program featuring the
industry's first sustainability report while in 2011, AEG introduced AXS
a comprehensive entertainment platform serving as the company's primary
consumer brand including AXS Ticketing which provides fans the
opportunity to purchase tickets directly from their favorite venues via
a user-friendly ticketing interface, Examiner.com
and the AXS TV network. For additional information, visit www.aegworldwide.com
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