Annie Lennox, Q-Tip, Angels & Airwaves, Talib Kweli, Motion City Soundtrack and Lupe Fiasco to Partner with College Students in Honoring Top Emerging Acts
MTV Confirmed to Air Encore Performance of 4th Annual 'mtvU Woodie Awards' November 17th at 10pm ET / PT
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, today announced that up-and-coming indie rock set Tokyo Police Club has been added to the performance lineup for the 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" - the only awards honoring the music voted best by the college audience. The high energy Toronto quartet will take the "Woodies" stage November 8th at Roseland Ballroom in New York, joining an eclectic, powerhouse roster that includes Amy Winehouse, The Academy Is ... and Spank Rock. Additionally, today mtvU announced that Annie Lennox, Q-Tip, Tom Delonge and Dave Kennedy of Angels & Airwaves, Talib Kweli, Motion City Soundtrack and Lupe Fiasco are among those confirmed to stand side-by-side with college students, presenting this year's "Woodies" performers and awards. On hand to watch it all go down will be a mix of nominees, perennial college favorites and surprise guests including Gym Class Heroes, Guster, EL-P, Say Anything, Peter and Bjorn, Boys Like Girls, Cage, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and RJD2 -- who will also dj the pre-show.
The 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" will premiere simultaneously on mtvU and mtvU.com Thursday, November 15th at 8pm ET. Given the buzz around this year's "Woodies," MTV has joined in to showcase a special 30 minute version of the show, premiering Saturday, November 17th at 10pm ET / PT. The 30 minute version will also get an encore run on MTV2 November 18th at 12:30am ET / PT.
3.2 million votes have already been cast by the college audience for this year's "Woodies," and this is the last week of voting, so students are encouraged to make their voices heard via mtvU.com before the deadline of November 2nd at 11:59 pm ET. Most categories are still too close to call, so these final few days will be key in determining who takes home top honors at the show.
The initial field of sixteen "Viral Woodie" nominees has been pared down to just four, and they are: Linkin Park, "What I've Done," The Academy Is ..., "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands," Fall Out Boy, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race," and Meg & Dia, "Monster." Additionally, the top five acts of the more than 1,700 registered on mtvU's BestMusiconCampus.com -- which are competing for the inaugural "Best Music on Campus Woodie" -- have been selected and are fighting it out to be the first unsigned college band to ever win a coveted "Woodie" award. The winners of both categories will be determined by college student voting on mtvU.com.
Other top nominees for the 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" include The Shins, with three nominations, and Modest Mouse, Gym Class Heroes, Lily Allen, Justice, Linkin Park and The Academy Is ... , which each picked up two nods. Headliner Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Lil' Wayne, Bright Eyes, The Knife, Common, Klaxons, M.I.A., Spoon, CSS, The Rapture, TV on the Radio, Thom Yorke and Paramore were all nominated as well. Nearly fifty emerging and influential artists are nominated for the fourth annual "mtvU Woodies." Full info on nominees, performers and more is available at Woodies.mtvU.com.
The fourth-annual "mtvU Woodie Awards" is sponsored by Citi, Ford College Student Purchase Program, Garnier Fructis, T-Mobile and Windows Live Messenger.
About mtvU
Broadcast to more than 750 colleges across the country, with a combined enrollment of nearly 7.5 million, mtvU is the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are, through a three pronged approach - on-air, online and on campus. mtvU focuses on content including music videos from emerging artists which can't be seen anywhere else, news, student life features, events and pro-social initiatives. mtvU is always on campus, with more than 500 events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and for a complete programming schedule, visit www.mtvU.com.
In September 2005, mtvU became the first MTV Networks channel to also be distributed in its entirety online. The network is simulcast and available on demand at mtvU.com 24/7, featuring all of network's on-air content plus exclusive new music, original series and student-produced programming for college students and music fans everywhere.
mtvU also owns and operates the College Media Network, the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US, and RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings. The College Media Network comprises nearly 550 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of over 5.5 million students, reaching an average of 5 million unique users each month. RateMyProfessors.com reaches approximately 1.5 million college students each month, via the site's more than 6.6 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors.
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) , is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 140 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN/THE N, VH1 CLASSIC, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 300 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
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