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BET asks Bey to perform every year.
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Seated among the skeletal list of spectators allowed to watch Beyoncé in all of her rehearsal glory was one of the people who made it possible: the network’s President of Programming, Stephen Hill. Visibly excited to see another run-through of the secret he’s been orchestrating, his eyes light up at the opportunity to loosen his grip on the information he’d kept secure for weeks. Leaning in to speak matter-of-factly, gratefulness is audible in Hill’s speech as he lays out how the stars aligned for BET and Beyoncé after a few years of out-of-sync timing. Since keeping a close eye on the mega-star last year, the network's opportunity wedged itself between Beyoncé’s last weekend off and the first night of the international leg of her Formation Tour – which brought some threatening math into play.
“We approach Beyoncé every year for a performance," Hill says. "A few times she’s been in Europe, sometimes it’s been off-cycle and there’s been nothing out. So we thought at the end of last year that this timing might line up for her to have a project out before the BET Awards. And then, when she booked the tour, we saw there was a date in Sunderland on the 28th, and we were like, ‘Oh man, this isn’t gonna hit.’ From L.A., they’re nine hours ahead. So by the time she steps on stage here, it will already be the 27th where she’s performing. That’s a bad thing, because nobody wants to do a performance and then travel. We thought, ‘Oh no, it’s gonna be a problem.’”
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http://www.bet.com/music/2016/06/29/...=1467210275213
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