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CBS
CBS's Moonves Anticipates Slower Ad Sales
CBS may sign fewer advance advertising agreements for the 2008-2009 television season than last year, reports CEO Les Moonves. The network expects the number of deals to be lower this year and prices to be higher. "Advertisers don't even know what to make of everything yet."
Ex-CBS Exec Lassoed by Video Site Redlasso
Redlasso.com, a video-sharing site for bloggers, is hiring former CBS exec Michael Jordan to help it smooth relations with the media industry after the broadcast networks sought to shut it down for violating copyrights. Redlasso says it plans to continue "business as usual."
FOX
Fox News Worker Sues Over Office Bedbugs
Jane Clark, a 12-year veteran of Fox News, says she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after being bitten by bedbugs at work. Clark is filing a lawsuit against the owner of the
MTV
MTV launches romance reality show
Fun, Sex, Sin, Betrayal...get ready for MTV"s brand new romance reality show - Vodafone MTV Splitsvilla! From the makers of Roadies, comes a show about 2 sexy guys looking for love among 20 hot girls who compete not just for love, but fame, money and a chance to become MTV's first couple VJ!
UNIVISION
Universal Music Group announced plans to acquire Univision Communications, along with the company’s music recording and publishing division. UMG will continue to promote Latin artists on the Univision Network, but will phase out the Univision name.
VIACOM
Comedy Central Move Rankles Cable Companies
The trend of Webcasting, which in this case refers to the redistribution of TV shows on the Web, is not pleasing large cable operators. As Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable, said recently, "Guess what? We do mind." That obvious response is the big reason that almost no cable TV shows appear on the Web (except on YouTube, of course). The reason is that cable and satellite systems pay large fees to networks for what they have seen as exclusive rights to their content.
Viacom Also Mad about YouTube Download Tools
Viacom amended its complaint in its ongoing legal dispute with Google last month to suggest that YouTube “consciously tolerates or cooperates” with software tools that allow users to download its videos, as Cynthia Brumfield notes.
Viacom Hits 52-Week Low On Ad Concerns
Viacom Inc.'s stock hit a 52-week low Thursday -- adding to the previous day's slide -- after President and Chief Executive Philippe Dauman said second-quarter advertising growth will be slower than originally expected, at a conference on Wednesday.
AFRICA
ANGOLA: Should intentional HIV/AIDS infection be a crime?
Proposed reforms to
HIV/AIDS Prevalence Increasing In Burundi, Health Officials Say
HIV/AIDS prevalence in
Namibia: Aids Novel Officially Launched
The Minister of Health and Social Services on Tuesday evening urged that a new book be prescribed in Namibian schools, youth groups and in workplaces in an effort to defeat the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Pornography reigns in media as public yearns for solutions
Experts have warned over the easy access to pornography in
SOUTH AFRICA: Links between HIV and mental illness overlooked
The links between HIV and mental illness are so multi-layered, and little understood, that doctors often struggle to determine which came first. Mental healthcare professionals in
Uganda: Kumi District Tops in HIV Testing
Kumi District, in eastern
ASIA
City will have 3000 condom dispensers more
The civic body has tied up with an NGO — Hindustan Lattice Family Planning Trust — for this Aids awareness venture. There are plans to install 3,000 machines across the city — 1,500 of which will be set up in the first phase in June.
HIV/AIDS victims get insurance cards
About 500 Vietnamese children living with HIV/AIDS have received free insurance cards to mark International Children’s Day, which falls on Sunday.
HIV risk in war-torn Afghanistan high
The prevalence of HIV is low in
Sexual Assault More Prevalent Than Reported
Twenty-nine out of every 1,000 women were sexually assaulted last year, the Ministry of Gender Equality said Friday. The figure is more than 100 times bigger than previous official reports because in the past 99.7 percent of victims had declined to report incidents to the police, it said.
CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA
Barbados Parliament Approves Plan To Spend $90M Over Five Years To Fight Spread of HIV/AIDS
The Barbados Parliament on Tuesday approved a plan to spend 180 million
EUROPE
President took part in opening of centre "Clinic for HIV/AIDS
The Head of State reminded that AIDS is the most severe challenge for the Ukrainian society - as of January 1 there were almost 123 thousand of HIV-infected citizens registered in Ukraine, while more than 12 thousand of children died of AIDS (241 of them are at the age of up to 14 years old).
Press legal advisor launches new media law book
A new media law book has been written by the legal advisor to the Manchester Evening News. Cleland Thom's The How-to Media Law Manual has 200 pages covering everything from subbing the letters page to complex legal challenges in court.
ADVERTISING NEWS
Google Sees U.S. Paid Ad Clicks Jump 20%
Google had a 20% jump in clicks on its
Local Web Ads Are Sizzling For Newspapers
Newspaper-owned Web sites are taking the biggest slice of an online local ad pie that is rapidly getting bigger, says a new study by Borrell Associates. In 2007, newspaper online local ads for the first time topped more than $2 billion.
Target Social Network Ads To Capture Clicks
58 percent of nearly 800 users of social networking sites say that very few of the ads and offers they're currently seeing on social networking sites match their specific interests and preferences, and another 29 percent say none of them do, as reported in a recently released Prospectiv poll. Only 13 percent say that "most" ads meet their interests and preferences.
HIV/AIDS AND SEXUAL HEALTH NEWS
AIDS foundation lobbying Merck on price
In a series of ads, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is urging Merck to change its pricing and access policies, criticizing an increase of up to six times the price of its anti-HIV drug Stocrin in Mexico than in other Latin American countries.
Does one of every four American teenagers really have a sexually transmitted disease? No, despite headlines given to a recent federal study. The one-in-four number “really caught every parent in America’s attention,” said Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, because it is so simple and “so stunning.” Richards said that her 17-year-old daughter read it “and personalized it, and said, ‘There are some girls I know who have an STI’ ”—shorthand for sexually transmitted infection. “It really brought it home.”
The number of new HIV diagnoses in Utah was up 32 percent during the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same time period the year before, while the median age of those affected has dropped, according to health experts and community advocates who cite misconceptions and an increase in substance abuse as among probable causes for the increase.
How did 'Sex and the City' score on STIs?
If Samantha Jones, the sexy and sex-obsessed character on the hit television show Sex and the City, was a real woman, sexually transmitted disease counsellors might have to sit her down and explain the tenets of safe sex.
The Almighty Condom is Not So Mighty
Studies by the National College Heath Assessment (NCHA) approximate college students had sex 20 million times last year, and about 72% of college students admit to taking part in sex acts. All this sex is equally shadowed by the looming statistics about sexually transmitted diseases, and the FDA has made some startling conclusions about the condom, which is largely marketed as the best, most efficient means of protection from sexually transmitted diseases.
MOBILE NEWS
Popularity Of Smartphones Boosts Average Cell Phone Price
Kirk Parsons, senior director of wireless services at J.D. Power and Associates, says consumers like the ease of use in smartphones, especially those that have a full keyboard and touch screens. "Discounts on pricing in advertisements get consumers in the store, but sales are mainly driven by design and functions on the phone," he says.
Virgin Mobile Offers Access With Phone Buy
Virgin Mobile USA customers who buy one of 15,000 Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card phones by Kyocera Wireless will have special access to the Virgin Mobile Guest Lounge at the upcoming Virgin Mobile Festival Aug. 9-10 in Baltimore.
MULTI CULTURAL NEWS
Gay Atlanta 2028: Rising to our challenges
“The Atlanta gay community has changed dramatically in the last two decades. Anti-gay prejudice is rooted in religious principles, and because we live in the Bible belt, our changes may seem somehow less significant than northern gay communities. Despite that, our relationships are still not legally recognized, we can't openly adopt, we still get bullied, and discriminated against... and yet things for us have changed. More of us are out to families, our communities, our jobs and even have been elected openly gay.
DOCUMENTARIES STAR AT BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
When entries started streaming in for the San Francisco Black Film Festival, its director, Ave Montague, immediately noticed something different. Lots more of them were documentaries. There were strong submissions on political subjects such as reaching young Africans who are susceptible to AIDS and fanciful fare such as the true story of some youngsters in Cape Town, South Africa, who win a trip to Las Vegas to compete in a magic show.
Hispanic Viewers Help Send 'American Idol' and 'Dancing' Out On Top
AMERICAN IDOL concluded its competition with a bang, as more than 30 million viewers tuned in to the season-ending finale. The audience, which included including 1.65 million U.S. Hispanics, watched and applauded the crowning of singer David Cook as American Idol for 2008
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS
Canadian Study Says Facebook Violates Privacy
The university's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is asking the Privacy Commissioner of
Facebook, IM to Be 'Demanded' by Workers
The next generation of workers will demand access to tools such as social networks and instant messaging, according to a study by market intelligence firm IDC. The younger generation is increasingly "hyper-connected" and expects to use a variety of communication platforms.
For Fashion, Social Network Equals Market Research
Times may be tough for fashion retailers, but a little applied science and technology could help tremendously. The fashion industry is "a nightmare of surplus inventory, which leads to markdowns and unhealthy profit-and-loss statements." What it needs is an inexhaustible, ever-ready focus group that could help retailers cut back on excess purchases. Something like a social network.
OTHER NEWS
Childhood Obesity Levels Off, Pressure on Advertisers Remains
A new study suggests that childhood obesity may be leveling off in the
FCC Unveils Free Broadband Plan
The Federal Communications Commission is considering giving away broadband Internet for free, in exchange for the right to control it. The new plan would see the winner of an upcoming airwaves auction offer free wireless Internet service to most Americans within a few years, but the FCC would regulate the service. Details of what exactly that means still have to be worked out, but the FCC confirmed that pornography sites, for starters, would be blocked.
Netflix Inks Deal For Gay TV Shows
Netflix has agreed to be the exclusive distributor of TV series from Logo, the gay- and lesbian-themed cable channel. The arrangement leaves open the possibility that future titles from MTV Networks-owned Logo will be distributed the same way.
TV Soap to Launch Internet Mag
Is it a TV show, a Web site or print publication? "The Young and the Restless," the TV soap opera, is rolling out a new fashion magazine with a twist. The magazine is online only, and it coincides with the launch of a fictional print version of the magazine on the show.
YouTube: The World's Biggest TV Station
Google's YouTube is now seen as "the biggest television station on the planet," attracting some 1 billion views per day. The video-sharing site is expected to generate $200 million this year. Also: Republican presidential contender John McCain is "taking a serious drubbing" on YouTube.
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