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BET Awards executive producer said Sunday's show will be dedicated to the King of Pop - Michael Jackson, who died of cardiac arrest on Thursday.
Stephen Hill, an executive producer for the BET Awards, said the show would be dedicated to Jackson because of his influence on music and pop culture.
"I think what you''re going to find is that acceptance speeches for awards will have nothing to do about the artists themselves, but about the influence that Michael Jackson had on them," Hill said in a phone interview.
As word of his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from Jackson's heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York's Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.
Jackson, defined in equal parts as the world's greatest entertainer and perhaps its most enigmatic figure, was about to attempt one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Then his life was cut shockingly - and so far, mysteriously - short.
