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CABLE POSITIVE ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR MTV’s Staying Alive Concert to Receive Special Jury
POP Award NEW YORK, NY -January 31, 2003 Winners will be announced at Cable Positive’s POP Awards ceremony on February 25, 2003 in New York at The Supper Club.. LIST OF NOMINEES: 2nd ANNUAL CABLE POSITIVE POP AWARDS Outstanding Original Series Episode/Storyline
Outstanding Documentary
Outstanding Newsmagazine
Outstanding Biographical Program
Outstanding Special Programming
Nominations by Cable Network Nominees in the POP Network of the Year and POP Celebrity of the Year categories will be announced shortly. MTV’s Staying Alive Concert has been chosen by this year’s POP Awards Judges to receive a Special Jury POP Award. The Judges unanimously decided to take MTV Presents Levi’s® Jeans Staying Alive Concert in Association with YouthAIDS out of competition to honor and recognize the programs truly global AIDS prevention outreach and effort. The program consisted of two historic concerts – one in South Africa and one in the United States – combined to form a commercial-free 90-minute special, addressing such issues as the importance of protection and testing and the stigma surrounding those living with HIV/AIDS. Featuring performances by P. Diddy, Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, Missy Elliot, and Michelle Branch, and taped messages from Nelson Mandela, Halle Berry, Magic Johnson, and others -- concert served as a wake-up call to young people around the world on the issues of HIV/AIDS. The program aired worldwide in more than 88 countries and potentially reached more than 2 billion people around the world. Steve Villano, president & CEO of Cable Positive observed, “Cable television is leading the public dialogue about AIDS by producing pioneering programs that educate and inform Americans and populations at risk around the world. Cable networks, programmers, and systems deserve special recognition for continuing to keep AIDS on the public’s mind and on the public policy agenda.” In order to qualify for submission, entries must have been an originally produced program that aired at least once on a national cable network in the United States from January 1 to December 31, 2002. Programming nominations were selected based on the following criteria:
A blue-ribbon judging panel viewed all submissions and applied these criteria when selecting the nominated programs. Cable Positive’s 2nd Annual POP Awards judging committee was comprised of media and television critics, HIV/AIDS media professionals and sex experts including USA Today television critic Robert Bianco, POZ magazine publisher Brad Peebles, Art & Understanding (A&U) magazine editor Michael Needle, Cable World special features editor Shirley Brady, Cable FAX Daily editorial director Seth Arenstein and nerve.com’s Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey. Cable Positive is a national non-profit organization that was founded in February 1992 by three concerned cable executives with the mission of organizing cable's resources in the fight against AIDS. Cable Positive is dedicated to unifying the talents, resources, access, and influence of the communications industry to raise AIDS awareness; to fund AIDS education, research and care; and to promote a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS. Cable Positive has grown to include supporters from every major cable network, MSO, system, hardware manufacturer, trade association, media publication, and affiliated industry vendors and suppliers. For more information about Cable Positive, call 212.459.1502 or visit www.cablepositive.org.
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