ANSWERING THE CALL: A BET NEWS S.O.S. UPDATE Probes Issues of Race, Disaster Response and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina

ANSWERING THE CALL: A BET NEWS S.O.S. UPDATE Probes Issues of Race, Disaster Response and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina

First-Hand Accounts with Survivors Featured on Sunday, September 18 at 1 p.m. ET/PT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- It may well be the longest road to disaster recovery in American history as residents by the tens of thousands try to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Through the eyes and voices of the storm's survivors, BET News takes a compelling journey of heartbreak and hope with ANSWERING THE CALL: A BET NEWS S.O.S. UPDATE, a stunning look at the impact of nature's fury on the Gulf Coast region. The documentary, hosted by BET News reporter Andre Showell, televises on Sunday, September 18 at 1:00 p.m. ET/PT.

BET News will share the latest information on the recovery effort; probe the role race may have played in the response by governmental authorities; and gauge reactions by African-American leadership in the affected areas, including Congressional Black Caucus members, Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. BET will also update the status of families ripped apart during evacuation but are now reunited and hoping to rebuild.

PROGRAM: ANSWERING THE CALL: A BET NEWS S.O.S. UPDATE NETWORK: BET SCHEDULE: Sunday, September 18 @ 1 - 2 p.m. ET/PT

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BET, a subsidiary of Viacom, Inc. (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B), is the nation's leading television network providing quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs programming for the African-American audience. The BET Network reaches more than 80 million households according to Nielsen media research, and can be seen in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. BET is a dominant consumer brand in the urban marketplace with a diverse group of branded businesses: BET.com, the Number 1 Internet portal for African Americans; BET Digital Networks -- BET Jazz, BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Event Productions, specializing in a full range of event production services, including event management, venue selection, talent recruitment, sound, lighting and stage production; and BET Books, the nation's leading publisher of African-American themed romance novels under the Arabesque imprint which also publishes compelling fiction under the Sepia imprint and inspirational fiction and nonfiction under the New Spirit imprint.

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Source: BET (Black Entertainment Television)

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