January 31, 2008

CBS

CBS Signs On to TiVo Stop//Watch

CBS and TiVo have formed a research partnership in which the TV network will use TiVo's Stop//Watch service data to help it determine how to best structure its commercial pods going forward and how it can use interstitials to keep viewers, both live and time-shifted audiences, involved during commercial breaks.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003704882

FOX

Fed Up With MySpace? Join the Club and Delete Your Account

Wednesday is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day, an online protest geared at uniting users eager to ditch the popular social networking site. "I’d love to see a large number of people delete their accounts all at once in order to send MySpace a message: Your website sucks," he continued.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/01/fed-up-with-mys.html

Myspace, MTV and The Associated Press Confirm Senator Barack Obama and Representative Ron Paul to Join Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Mike Huckabee

A Presidential Super Dialogue." The event will offer candidates a final opportunity to actively engage the highly-coveted youth voting bloc just before Super Tuesday, when more than 20 states will hold their primaries and caucuses. "Closing Arguments" is the next installment of MySpace and MTV's ground-breaking Presidential Dialogue Series (http://www.myspace.com/election2008) and will take place live Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 6 PM ET on-air, online, radio and mobile.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/DC1297031012008-1.htm

MySpace IM Users Can Now Chat and Receive Alerts on Any Mobile Phone Worldwide

Gizmo5 Technologies announces Gizmo5 mobile and desktop software is now connected with the MySpace IM network. For the first time ever, MySpace users on any mobile network can receive MySpace alerts, see who's online and send/receive messages with their MySpace buddies directly from their mobile phone or desktop using Gizmo5.

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=816041

MySpace wins domain name fight

MySpace has won the right to have the MySpace.co.uk domain name despite another firm having registered it six years before the social networking website launched.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/31/myspace.digitalmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=media

MTV

MTV’s ‘Making The Band 4’ Hits Ratings High

The second-half premiere of MTV’s Making The Band 4 marked the series highest-rated debut among the network’s target demographic. The Jan. 29 telecast notched a 2.2 rating against persons 12 to 34, according to Nielsen Media Research data, the best since the Sean Combs-franchise bowed in June 2003. The first half of the series’ fourth season debut last summer.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6527375.html

MTV UK Repositions www.mtv.co.uk as a Premiere Music and Entertainment Portal

MTV Networks UK & Ireland is repositioning http://www.mtv.co.uk/ as a general music and entertainment portal for 16-34 year olds. The site will become a destination for all things MTV, bringing the best of its award-winning music and entertainment programming together in a revamped homepage, rich in editorial scoops and exclusive video content.

http://www.sys-con.com/read/494102.htm

UNIVISION

In Conversation at NATPE: Telemundo’s Browne and Univision’s Uva

In panels moderated by Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen and TV Latina, at NATPE, Univision’s CEO, Joe Uva, and Telemundo Communications Group’s president, Don Browne, discussed the rapidly expanding U.S. Hispanic market.

http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=uva013008.htm

AFRICA

Get ready for International Media Forum 2008

The second edition of the International Media Forum South Africa (IMFSA) will be held at the Campus in Bryanston, Johannesburg, 21 – 22 May 2008. IMFSA, a gathering of some of the world's top editors teaming up with African media managers and communicators, will seek to debate, among others, various issues and challenges affecting the environment media.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/15/21549.html

Uganda: WHO Africa Chief Visits Country

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo, arrived yesterday for a four-day visit. Sambo will discuss with the Government and her partners the health situation in the country.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200801310081.html

Zambia: Stigma - Greatest Enemy to HIV/Aids Fight

"HAVING gone for Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and disclosed my status, was the worst thing that I regret having done because it subjected me and my family to all kinds of discrimination and name calling from my community," these were the words of Hildah Siatwiinda, 45, of Livingstone's Libuyu Township.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200801310342.html

CARIBBEAN

CARIBBEAN CULTURE RUNS WILD ON THE INTERNET

"Finally there's a website where people from all over the Caribbean can go and network, chat, create business opportunities and socialize with others who speak their native tongue," A virtual Caribbean myspace, CaribGoneWild.com links individuals from the US with family, friends and opportunities back home.

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/caribbean-culture-runs-wild-on-the-internet--39394.php

For an impoverished beauty queen, a stark choice: sex work or no work

Women's media campaign in Nicaragua overturns crackdown on brothels across capital. What Natasha does on the bed in the dingy room with flaking orange paint so shames her she cannot bring herself to use the word. She calls it "so and so" and sells it here from midday to midnight, six days a week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2248808,00.html

Jamaican appointed to head regional AIDS organization

The senior medical officer in the National HIV/STI Control Programme at the Ministry of Health has been appointed chairman of the Caribbean Coalition of National AIDS Programme Coordinators (CCNAPC).

http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/4948/26/

New media network on air in Turks and Caicos

It was an historic moment for the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands when, on Monday, TCI New Media Network began transmission on channel 7, on WIV'S cable network in Providenciales. In respect to the programming, the broadcasting on the national station is expected to be "strong and balanced".

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-5750--37-37--.html

Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt

The hand of a woman is covered in mud as she makes mud cookies on the roof of Fort Dimanche, once a prison, in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. Rising prices and food shortages threaten the nation's fragile stability, and the mud cookies, made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening, are one of very few options the poorest people have to stave off hunger

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcJ474CjaJGOUznskl4ZgTHdpxUAD8UFQVR00

UNESCO Small Island Voice: St. Kitts Representative attends America Youth Forum

Mrs. Maria Crawford, an Information Officer at the St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service (SKNIS) speaks with Miss Sharina Laws who returned from the Americas Youth Forum held in Mexico in late 2007

http://www.sknvibes.com/News/NewsDetails.cfm/4436

OTHER HIV AIDS NEWS

Breaking the Silence Around HIV in African American Communities

Graham believes the silence and stigma about HIV in the African American community remain as significant barriers to prevention, testing, and treatment. "We are still trying to get the message across to people that, where HIV is concerned, silence is not golden. It's a killer. We have a responsibility to talk about how people can protect themselves from HIV, including what to do when they are tested and diagnosed. "

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/breaking-the-silence-around-hiv-in-african-american-communities,266990.shtml

H&M launches Fashion Against AIDS collection

Fancy a new top that will get people talking? A host of famous musicians and designers have created a range of funky organic cotton T-shirts and jackets for H&M to raise awareness of AIDS among young adults.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=511449&in_page_id=1879

OTHER MEDIA NEWS

Advertising Spending Targeting African American Consumers Exceeds $2.3 Billion Annually, Nielsen Reports

In its first 12-month analysis of advertising spending on media outlets that reach African American consumers, The Nielsen Company reported today that spending for the period October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007 totaled $2.3 billion. The Nielsen African American ad spending analysis covers over 22,000 national, regional and local advertisers, across 130+ media vehicles.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/advertising-spending-targeting-african-american-consumers-exceeds-23-billion-annually,265652.shtml

Digital media change modern entertainment

It is undeniable that the vessel for entertainment is shifting. The last 10 years have wrought a whirlwind of difference in the way music and movies are experienced. The Internet is responsible for creating this world of digital media that seems to define the next generation of entertainment culture.

http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/01/31/LifeArts/Digital.Media.Change.Modern.Entertainment-3179607.shtml

Hollywood 2.0—Is TV Dying?

Ever since the Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike, both the town and its television and film industries have hardly resembled their usual selves. “Your generation is used to getting entertainment on demand in one form or another,” said Jeffrey Melvoin, a longtime WGA member and former “Seinfeld” writer. “Its habits are moving toward ‘I want it when I want it, how I want it, and where I want it.’”

http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1001

Jose Cuervo Launches Groundbreaking Campaign

Three-Time World Cup Participant Alberto 'El Beto' Garcia Aspe to Promote Social Responsibility and Mexican Pride to Millions of Soccer Fans

http://sev.prnewswire.com/beer-wine-spirits/20080131/CLTH04431012008-1.html

New Media Icon Grapples With Newer Media Rivals

The investor battle raging over the iconic Internet media company offers an object lesson in how high-tech Web firms that miss a beat can be vulnerable to succeeding waves of Internet technology. With the Web in its second decade as a popular consumer medium, some well-known companies that arose in its first decade, like CNET and Yahoo Inc., now face heightened competition.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120157134273724033-dgGTyqts4q92sq7i8d3X_ZHLtm4_20080228.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

New Orleans Ethnic Media Hold First Convening

In the first-ever convening of Louisiana ethnic media, civil rights and immigrant rights groups in New Orleans, representatives from African-American, Latino and Vietnamese news organizations met last week to discuss how to work together on issues of common concern.

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=85727447f2bb1bd1801e3b62aba7813a

New York Times News Service Teams with V-me for Spanish Television Venture

V-me is working with The New York Times News Service to bring The Times's content into the Hispanic

television market for the first time. The two media companies will collaborate on a new weekly program called Paginas del New York Times.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-31-2008/0004747031&EDATE=

The DL Chronicles, GLAAD's First African American Gay TV Series Media Award Nominee

Said to represent Experience vs. Change much like the Clinton vs. Obama platforms, the TV movie "Daphne," a story about a famed closeted British Lesbian author, was produced by LOGO, the LGBT network of the monolithic Viacom/MTV. In contrast, "The DL Chronicles," an anthology series about closeted gay and bisexual African American men, is produced by newcomers, Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossett, and distributed by here! TV: an independent premium LGBT cable network.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/1/prweb655443.htm

TNS to Roll Out DirectView

TNS Media Research stepped up its initiative to measure national TV audiences through set-top box data, announcing Thursday the launch of a national opt-in panel based on 100,000 DirecTV subscribers.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003704928