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How to Watch FireAid, the Star-Studded Benefit for Los Angeles
Ninety minutes later, a second show was set to begin at the nearby Intuit Dome, featuring Eilish, Rodrigo, Lady Gaga and others. Producers split the lineup along rough genre lines — more rock-oriented acts at the Forum, and pop at the Intuit Dome.
Organizers said that the show would be available on platforms including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Hulu, Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and YouTube. It will also be available on SiriusXM and iHeartRadio and screened at some AMC and Regal Cinema movie theaters. Several streaming services said they would begin carrying the concert at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific.
“It’s a once in a lifetime event,” Jenny Chaiyakal, 44, of Irvine, Calif., whose daughter found out about the concert through Eilish’s social media channels, said as she arrived at the Intuit Dome. “The stars were all willing to donate their time and come together to support people in California.”
How the concert came together.
Planning for the concert came together extraordinarily quickly, spearheaded by Irving Azoff, a longtime manager and power broker in music, and his family. Within three days of the fires breaking out, the Intuit Dome, home of the Los Angeles Clippers, had been secured and the event — with no artists yet attached — had been announced with the cooperation of Live Nation and AEG Presents, who are usually bitter rivals as the world’s two largest concert promoters.
In a recent phone interview with The New York Times, Azoff said the urgency of the crisis drove the timing of the concert. With the Grammys on Sunday and the Super Bowl the next weekend, organizers felt that the show had to take place as soon as possible or be put off until the end of February. “This is about fund-raising, and you need to get the money in the bank as quickly as you can,” Azoff said.