WNIT Public Television will air a special telethon “Hope for Haiti Now” this Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. Wyclef Jean will join George Clooney and CNN’s Anderson Cooper in hosting MTV Network’s “Hope for Haiti Now,” the global telethon to air commercial-free across PBS and many other networks. The telethon will be hosted by Clooney in Los Angeles, Jean in New York and Cooper in Haiti.

All donations will directly benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti Foundation. “Hope for Haiti Now” will feature performances and celebrity appearances to be announced as well as live news reports from CNN.

WNIT will broadcast “Hope for Haiti Now” on its high definition channel, 34.1. WNIT will air its regularly scheduled programs – “Washington Week,” “Economic Outlook” and the movie “Carousel” on its standard definition channel, 34.2, during that same time period.

WNIT Public Television is a not-for-profit corporation celebrating more than 36 years of broadcasting in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan.