November 5, 2008

MTV

50 Cent has business-centered reality show on MTV

50 Cent has a new show on MTV, where business-savvy contestants compete for a shot at fame and a huge cash prize. But the rapper says he's not following the path of that other famous reality show hosted by Donald Trump.

MTV Taps Quantcast For Audience Tracking

With the move, MTV will now also become part of Quantcast's Qualified Publisher Progam, giving marketers and media buyers access to audience profiles for the network's properties including MTV.com, ComedyCentral.com and VH1.com.

VIACOM

Viacom Gets Nailed; American Youth Is Bored With Its MTV

Viacom faces a number of challenges, chief among them is the fact that its cash cow networks, MTV, VH1 and BET, are having ratings problems.

AFRICA

GAMBIA: President’s herbal HIV/AIDS 'cure' boosts ARV use

President Yahya Jammeh’s traditional herbal treatment for HIV has had an unanticipated side-effect, say HIV experts in the country – rather than pulling people towards a herbal cure, it has raised the profile of conventional antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to treat HIV.

ASIA

Women’s groups launch new drive against AIDS

The project is done in co-ordination with Vijaya Mahila Sangha and Jyothi Mahila Sangha, two other organisations working for the empowerment of sex workers. The programme aims to fight against the stigma attached to these women and the discrimination they face. The project is supported by the World Bank which has granted Rs16 lakhs for technical support for 18 months.

CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA

Communique Issued at the 8th AGM of Pan Caribbean Partnership

Under the theme, Leadership: Uniting Vision and Purpose, the Eighth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) was held on 29 -31 October 2008, in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Continued health cooperation discussed in Barbados

Regional partners are meeting in Barbados over three days, to discuss a framework for Caribbean Cooperation in Health Phase III.

Voodoo priests enlisted in Haiti AIDS fight

It is no surprise that Bouvais easily reconciles his mystical explanation of AIDS with the concept that it is caused by a virus. Voodoo is a melding of the beliefs and practices of West African slaves brought to the Caribbean island in the 1500s with the Roman Catholicism of their owners, and has co-existed with organised religion in Haiti for centuries.

EUROPE

Many Africans with HIV in the UK are diagnosed late

According to the report, Sexually transmitted infections in black African and black Caribbean communities in the UK 2008, there were 2,691 black African's diagnosed with HIV in 2007.

HIV/AIDS AND SEXUAL HEALTH NEWS

New HIV-reduction initiative takes to the fields

Education has found its way onto the soccer fields of North Carolina – in the form of a social experiment that may have all the right ingredients to change the direction of Latino health in the United States.

Study: Pregnancy Rates Linked to Sex on TV

Teens who watch a lot of TV programs that show flirting, touching, sex scenes or discussion of sex are far more likely to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant, a new study shows. The study found that over the next three years those who watch the most sexual content on TV are about twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy as those who watch the least.

MULTI CULTURAL NEWS

AOL's BlackVoices debuts new advice blog targeting black men

BlackVoices, (www.blackvoices.com), announced the launch of BV Power List, a new blog that provides men with tips on how to succeed at work, home and play in order to make their own power moves in their daily life. A key feature of the new blog, www.blackvoices.com/blogs/category/power-list, is the editors' weekly pick of the top five industry leading African-American influencers

SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS

Social networks, mobile marketing are keys to reaching Gen X

Marketers trying to reach the elusive 25- to 44-year-old Generation X segment, which is at the peak of its buying power, face several key obstacles, including splintered media consumption, a greater diversity in "lifestyles," more penny-pinching habits than baby boomers have and an aversion to traditional ads, eMarketer has found.

OTHER NEWS

Election coverage draws 71.5 million

Some 71.5 million total viewers tuned in across 14 broadcast and cable networks from 8 to 11 p.m., according to Nielsen data issued last night, up 30 percent from the 55.1 million who tuned in to the seven major broadcast and cable news networks four years ago on election night.

Media Stocks Soar On Election Day

Election day was a bonanza for many media stocks. The biggest gainers included Viacom, which rebounded from some poor third-quarter earning results the day before, to gain 9% to $21.86. Time Warner also took off, up 8.3% to $10.83.

Nielsen: More Americans Plug Into Digital TV Change

Nielsen data released Tuesday shows that the number of homes that are still unprepared for the coming digital TV transition has declined over the past month. It now stands at 7.7% of all U.S. homes--down from 8.4% in September and nearly 10% in May.