The 2002 MTV Video Music Awards will be hosted for the fourth time running in New York city and will be aired live on the channel from Radio City Music Hall on 29 August this year.

MTV and MTV2 president Van Toffler said the VMAs are being moved up one week from the first Thursday of September, when the channel's most visible awards are historically held.

MTV also announced that Salli Frattni and Dave Sirulnick will return as executive producers and Alex Coltti will return as producer of the 19th annual "Video Music Awards". The VMAs will be available to a potential viewing audience of over one billion people via MTV's 37 channels reaching 382.1 million households around the world, says an official release.

Ballots for the 2002 VMAs will be sent out to an exclusive industry group and viewers who will determine nominees for the telecast. Approximately, 500 viewers and individuals representing record labels, music journalists and video producers select the nominees for the awards categories encompassing wide ranging contemporary forms as rap, dance, R&B and alternative.