Chris Rock to Host "1999 MTV Video Music Awards" Live from Metropolitan Opera House on 9-9-99.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--June 30, 1999-- Chris Rock will host the sixteenth annual "MTV Video Music Awards The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. Originally beginning as an alternative to the Grammy Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards is now a respected pop culture awards show in its own right. ," it was announced today by Judy McGrath Judy McGrath, (born 1952 in Scranton, Pennsylvania)[1]) is the current CEO of MTV Networks. Channels she directs include, other than the music channels, MTV, MTV2, and VH-1, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and TV Land. , President, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. . "The 1999 MTV Video Music Awards" will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Thursday, 9-9-99 at 8:00 p.m. ET. "At the 1997 Video Music Awards, Chris Rock gave one of the wittiest and funniest performances ever," said McGrath. "Thus, we are extremely excited to have him return to host this year's show. We already know that this is a highly anticipated event considering that it is the last one before the millennium and is taking place at the historic Metropolitan Opera House. Now with the addition of Chris, yet another element has fallen into place to make this year's show phenomenal." Chris Rock is one of today's strongest comedic voices and has garnered two Emmys and a Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow. with the instant-classic HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy special and CD, "Bring The Pain" (1996). His new HBO special and CD, both called "Bigger and Blacker," will be released July 10 and July 13 respectively. The Emmy-nominated "The Chris Rock Show" will also return for its fourth season to HBO on Sept. 17. Rock will also be starring in the eagerly anticipated film, "Dogma" which is scheduled for a fall release and completed work on "Nurse Betty," directed by Neil LaBute, opposite Morgan Freeman and Renee Zellweger. Ballots for "The 1999 MTV Video Music Awards" will be sent out to an exclusive industry group and viewers who will determine nominees for the telecast. Nominees will be announced in July. 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 rock. Ballots will be cast by fax and mail. Duplication will be avoided through a special control number assigned to each ballot, which can only be tallied once. The sixteenth annual "Video Music Awards" will be produced by Alex Coletti Alex Coletti is an executive producer and director for MTV Networks. He produced MTV's Unplugged series, five-time producer of the VMAs and served as segment producer for the Super Bowl XXXV halftime show. and Nancy McDonald. Salli Frattini and Dave Sirulnick are executive producers. Sponsors of the 1999 Video Music Awards include AT&T, Best Buy, Blockbuster, Ford, Levi's, Mars, Nike, ONDCP ONDCP Office of National Drug Control Policy , Pepsi, Sega, Sony Electronics and Taco Bell. MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc., owns and operates five cable television programming services -- MTV: Music Television, MTV2, VH1, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, and Nick at Nite's TV Land -- all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. Information about MTV and MTV2 is available on MTV Online, on America Online (Keyword: MTV) and the World Wide Web (http://mtv.com). |
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