BET
March Mania Hits BET
March mania hits BET Networks with the premiere of two new original series, BLACK POKER STARS INVITATIONAL and IRON RING, two reunion specials COLLEGE HILL: CLASS REUNION and KEYSHIA COLE THE WAY IT IS: A FAMILY AFFAIR, the 4th annual RIP THE RUNWAY and COLLEGE HILL: ATLANTA.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1160322/
CBS
CBS Losing 'Most Watched' Title to Fox
CBS -- the home to hits like "Survivor" and "60 Minutes" -- will almost certainly forfeit its longtime crown as "
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-channel3mar03,1,5022500.story
CBS Outdoor named as a Business Superbrand
As a Business Superbrands, CBS Outdoor has become extremely desirable among many business leaders and influencers. CBS Outdoor is currently transforming the advertising estate on the London Underground with cutting edge digital advertising as part of a massive transformation.
http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewNews/?95598
FOX
MySpace, Facebook move to better promote third-party apps
MySpace Inc. and Facebook Inc. today separately announced plans to make it easier for developers to earn money from applications that they build and lob at users of the popular social networks.
News Corp's MySpace Preps 'iTunes Killer'
MySpace is said to be planning a service that would combine free ad-supported music with paid MP3 downloads and music subscriptions. MySpace owner News Corp. aims to partner with the major labels in a music site, similar to its partnership with
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0123996020080302
MTV
Doritos and MTV Announce Casting Call for Spicy Girls and Sweet Guys for New Reality Dating Series
MTV and Doritos are searching for guys and girls who can prove that opposites really do attract for a new short-form reality dating series called "When Spicy Meets Sweet."
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1160615/
MTV to air “The MySpace Chart” show
A new television show, “The MySpace Chart”, will air weekly on the
http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=414
VIACOM
Viacom President and Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman to Speak at the Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference
Mr. Dauman's question-and-answer session will take place on Monday, March 10th beginning at approximately 1:00 PM (ET). It will be open to the general public through a live webcast on Viacom's website
http://www.sunherald.com/447/story/408112.html
Viacom, NBC Support Comcast in Dispute
NBC Universal and Viacom are supporting Comcast's right to slow customers' access to certain applications on its high speed Internet network. "Reasonable network management practices are vital to combating illegal distribution of copyrighted material," Viacom says.
http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20080229-000996-1827
Africa's
Home-based programs cut African AIDS deaths: study
Providing HIV drug cocktails to people in their homes can cut AIDS-related deaths substantially in poor, rural areas of
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=82ab4d5f-829f-428e-a476-414f5597f859
China Mobile has just released its CSR Report 2007, detailing the company's corporate social responsibility activities in
http://www.chinacsr.com/2008/03/04/2139-china-mobile-releases-csr-report/
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/china_43021.html
Disney Begins Mobile Service in
Disney is rolling out a mobile phone service in
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080301/tbs-japan-us-entertainment-telecom-compa-e5c2383.html
Hope for AIDS Orphans in
Albina du Boisrouvray, president of the humanitarian organization François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) International, will announce the expansion of FXB's Village Model Program at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand tomorrow. FXB has been working in
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb738114.htm
Virgin goes
The UK-based Virgin Group, owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, has launched its telecom brand -- Virgin Mobile -- in
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2008/mar/03virgin.htm
Americans and the
According to Avert, an international AIDS charity, the Caribbean's thriving sex industry, which serves both local clients and many tourists, features prominently in the AIDS epidemics of certain countries, such as the
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/03/23/americans-and-the-caribbean-hiv-explosion
CARICOM gets more HIV/AIDS funds from
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has signed a Financing Agreement worth eight million euros to fund its HIV/AIDS fight. The grant, disbursed in two tranches the first of five million and the second of three million, is to assist the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean (PANCAP) in its attempts to prevent the spreads of the virus.
http://www.caribbean360.com/News/Caribbean/Stories/2008/02/29/NEWS0000005533.html
'Murder music' sparks
About 200 people attended the two-hour discussion, The Sound of Hate: Where Sexual Orientation, Race, Dancehall Music and Human Rights Collide. The debate focused on a popular segment of reggae that gay rights activists have dubbed "murder music," because it contains threatening sentiments toward homosexuals and pejorative patois terms for them.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Music/article/308721
OTHER NEWS
Northern and
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23451316
Reuters May Eliminate Jobs for Journalists
David Schlesinger, the editor-in-chief of Reuters, admits that job cuts for journalists can't be ruled out following the company's merger with Thomson Corp. "We have to look at areas where we overlap," he says. "Change is completely constant in our industry -- particularly now."
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40417
Time Warner to Start 12 New Web Sites
AOL, the Time Warner unit trying to catch up to Yahoo and Google in Internet traffic, plans to start at least a dozen Web sites in the next six months to attract more advertisers. Existing AOL sites include celebrity news site TMZ, men's lifestyle site Asylum and music site Spinner.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=a1oQFoKztByg
Web 2.0 Changing Social Order, Book Says
http://www.radaronline.com/radar-reviews/2008/02/here_comes_everybody_clay_shirky.php
William Morris, AT&T to Invest in Digital Media
The
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/media/03morris.html
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