| Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 | |
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| Genre | Benefit performance[1] |
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| Presented by | LeBron James |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original languages | English Spanish |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | LeBron James Brian Gott |
| Production location | Virtual |
| Running time | 57 minutes |
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| Network | ABC CBS Fox NBC |
| Release | May 16, 2020 (2020-05-16) |
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 is an Americantelevision special that was simulcasted on the major television networks and online on May 16, 2020. Created by theXQ Institute, the LeBron James Family Foundation, and theEntertainment Industry Foundation, the special was curated by basketball playerLeBron James in collaboration withhigh school students and educators across the United States, including theAmerican Federation of Teachers. The broadcast included a variety of commencement addresses, celebrity performances and inspirational vignettes aimed at high school students, whosegraduation ceremonies andproms were cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, due to it causingthe closure of most schools worldwide.[2][3]
| Artist(s) | Song(s) |
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| Students of the Class of 2020 | "Star-Spangled Banner" |
| Dua Lipa | "Break My Heart" |
| Ben Platt Henry Platt Jonah Platt | Graduation Medley "Memories" / "Graduation (Friends Forever)" "In My Life" "See You Again" "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" |
| Alicia Keys | "Underdog" |
| Chika Brandan "Bmike" Odums | "Crown" |
| H.E.R. | "Sometimes" |
| YBN Cordae | "Broke as F**k" |
| Jonas Brothers Karol G | "X" |
The special was simulcasted on May 16, 2020, at 8pmEST on the major U.S. broadcast television networksABC,CBS,Fox, andNBC, exceptPBS due to flex programming on member stations over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.[2] It was also simulcasted on television networksCalifornia Music Channel andThe CW, on Spanish-language networkUnivision, and on cable networksCNN,Fox Business,Fox News,Freeform, andMSNBC.[1][4] It was also available for streaming in platforms such asABC News Live,Associated Press,Bleacher Report,Complex Networks,Facebook,FoxNow,Hulu,Instagram,NBC News Now,NowThis News,PeopleTV,The Roku Channel,Roland Martin Unfiltered,Reuters,Sirius XM,Snapchat,TikTok,USO,The Washington Post, andYouTube.[3][1][4]
| Network | Viewers (million)[5] |
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| ABC | 2.233 |
| NBC | 2.203 |
| MSNBC | 2.003 |
| CNN | 1.879 |
| CBS | 1.836 |
| FNC | 0.977 |
| Fox | 0.659 |
| The CW | 0.367 |
| Freeform | 0.211 |
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Total Viewership = 14.674
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