Weekend TV : Environment Focus for Global Pop Concert; Ethics, AIDS, Piano Contest on News Shows
Pop music fans are in for another of those benefit concert extravaganzas today as Sting, Diana Ross and Elton John headline a satellite global telecast to help bring attention to the world’s environmental problems.
“Our Common Future,” a five-hour concert from New York, London and Brazil hosted by “Live Aid” creator Bob Geldof, Sigourney Weaver and Richard Gere, will be broadcast in its entirety on the Arts & Entertainment Channel at 5 p.m. and on KABC-TV Channel 7 at 11:30 p.m. Channel 7 will also broadcast three hours of the event, which features performances from R.E.M., Midnight Oil, Herbie Hancock and others, today at noon.
The Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, designed to raise money for children’s hospitals around the country, also begins today at 6 p.m. (9)(3), 7 p.m. (8). The 21-hour fund-raiser is hosted by Marie Osmond, Merlin Olsen and John Schneider.
Oprah Winfrey pops up tonight at 7 on Channel 7 as host of “Just Between Friends,” a personal look at friendship.
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