Full show will air live on Freeform and stream across Twitter and Facebook.
Ariana Grande’s One Love Manchester benefit concert will be broadcast for American audiences on Sunday.
Freeform will broadcast the full show, while ABC will air a one-hour highlight special following the NBA finals, parent company Disney / ABC Television Group said in a release Friday.
Fans will also be able to watch the full concert on Twitter at 2 p.m. ET (streamed at @TwitterLive or @ArianaGrande) , on Grande’s Facebook page and on YouTube. MTV will also livestream the benefit concert starting at 1: 55 p.m ET.
Grande is returning to Manchester, England, nearly two weeks after a bomber killed 22 people at her Manchester Arena show on May 22. The fundraiser, which will feature performances from Grande, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell, Usher, Take That and Niall Horan, will donate all proceeds to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, set up by the Manchester City Council and the British Red Cross to aid victims and their families.
The concert is being produced by the BBC, the host broadcaster, and will air at 2 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT on Freeform.
Ticketmaster UK said in a statement Thursday that the company had experienced remarkable demand for tickets as they went on sale Thursday morning. Though attendees of Grande’s original May 22 concert were told they’d be offered free passes to the benefit show, many fans hoping to attend took to social media saying that they were unable to obtain tickets.
« We understand that there are a number of fans who didn’ t receive an email this morning with regards to free tickets for One Love Manchester, » the company said statement published on its website . « We worked through the night and verified thousands of original bookings although there were some we could not verify. »
Ticketmaster and eBay quickly warned scalpers against resales.
Ticketmaster’s UK site issued a statement on Twitter that the service is canceling tickets purchased by scalpers.
“We’re working hard to get tickets direct to fans. We are canceling tickets of those who are reselling wherever possible, ” the account tweeted.
« We will not quit or operate in fear. We won’t let this divide us. We won’t let hate win, » Grande said in a statement. « Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before. »
Contributing: Andrea Mandell
