51st Annual Grammy Awards Set For L.A. May 21, 2008
By Ann Donahue, L.A.
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be held Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live to the east coast by CBS.
"The next 50 are here, and we are delighted to be in our hometown," says Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow.
The show is expected to run from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., according to the network, and will be showed on a delay to the west coast.
Nominations will be announced on December 4.
Ratings for the Grammys have slipped in recent years; the awards show averaged 18.2 million this year, compared to 20 million in 2007.
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