In the first instance, industry of employment is obtained by matching business name and address responses to ABS lists of business names for which main industry activity is already known.
This year, nominees were announced in May followed by a glittering awards ceremony on Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 8PM ET televised live from the Microsoft Theater in LA and airing on BET. Major 2016 nominees included Drake with a leading nine nominations, followed by BeyoncÃ© and Rihanna, each with five nods.
The stars of Black-ish, Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson will host the 2015 BET Awards. BETâs President of Programming Stephen G. Hill told Business Wire, âWe canât think of a better way to ring in 15 years of BET Awards than with the talented on-screen duo of Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross as our hosts.