Metallica Joins U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Creed, Christina Aguilera, and Bon Jovi to Perform at "My VH1 Music Awards," Live November 30th at 9:00pm ET on VH1

VH1 and VH1.com today announced that Metallica has joined the line-up of performers at the inaugural "My VH1 Music Awards," airing live on VH1, November 30th at 9:00 PM (ET). Metallica joins U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Creed, Christina Aguilera, and Bon Jovi to perform at the first ever fully interactive music awards show.

As a special online bonus, Metallica fans will choose the song the band will perform at the "My VH1 Music Awards" through VH1.com. Online voting for the song starts online this week and runs through the night of the show. While Metallica and other artists are performing live on the "My VH1 Music Awards" on VH1, music fans at home will have a compelling interactive experience with the show through VH1.com. Fans can: -

- Pick their view of the show with VH1.com's strategically placed behind the scenes Web-cams on the stage, red carpet, podium, press room and control room -- View a real-time photo gallery, which will be continuously updated throughout the show -- Make an informed vote by checking out select audio and video clips from the finalists -- Tune in to VH1 at Work Internet radio the week of November 27th for interviews with the performers and producers -- Submit email questions to the winners, which will be answered in the pressroom and Web cast live on VH1.com Through VH1.com, fans have created the "My VH1 Music Awards" by suggesting the categories, picking the finalists in each category, and now by voting for the winners up until the last moment that the awards are presented live on November 30. So far more than 1.1 million votes have been cast on VH1.com for the "My VH1 Music Awards" finalists.

 The final "My VH1 Music Awards" categories were selected by more than one million fans through VH1.com, and include such unique fan-suggested categories as "Most Entertaining Public Feud" and "Your Song Kicked Ass But Was Played Too Damn Much" as well as the standards like "Song of the Year" and "Woman of the Year." The host and presenters for "My VH1 Music Awards" will be announced at a later date. The "My VH1 Music Awards" are sponsored online by Toyota, Verizon and Feria by L'Oreal Paris. On-air sponsors include Toyota, 1 800 Call ATT for collect calls, Yahoo!, Canada Dry, Circuit City, L'Oreal, Intel, MasterCard, Old Navy and TiVO. VH1 produces and programs a wide variety of music-based series, specials, live events and acquisition-based programming that keep viewers in touch with the music they love. VH1 is a registered trademark of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc.

MTV Networks owns and operates the cable television programming services MTV: Music Television, MTV 2: Music Television, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, TV Land and VH1 as well as The Suite from MTV Networks, a package of ten digital services, all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks also has joint ventures, licensing agreements and syndication deals whereby its programming can be seen worldwide. VH1.com is a unit of the MTVi Group, the world's leading online music entertainment company featuring a comprehensive collection of music destinations on the Internet including MTV.com, VH1.com, and sonicnet.com. MTVi is a unit of MTV Networks, which is owned by Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA; VIA.B). Headquartered in downtown New York, MTVi has satellite offices in San Francisco, Miami, and London. Liberty Digital (Nasdaq: LDIG) holds a minority stake in MTVi. For more information on MTVi, please visit the MTVi corporate Web site (http://www.mtvi.com).