CABLE POSITIVE GRANTS MORETHAN $78,000 TO 15 COMMUNITY-BASED AIDS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS

NEW YORK, NY -October 19, 2006

Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry’s AIDS action organization, provided grants to 15 community-based AIDS service organizations totaling $78,000 to support the fight against HIV/AIDS locally through the Tony Cox Community Fund.  Cable Positive’s Tony Cox Community Fund is a national grant program that exists to encourage community-based AIDS organizations and cable outlets to partner in joint community outreach efforts, or to produce and distribute new, locally focused HIV/AIDS-related programs and public service announcements (PSAs).  The fund is dedicated to providing grants for qualified non-profit organizations to partner with their local systems in the aim of HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and prevention.

The grantees’ projects include the production of HIV/AIDS public service announcements (PSAs) and other programming promoting the grantee organization’s programs, service and upcoming fundraising events such as AIDS Walks. More than 20 local PSAs will be produced from these grants to support and promote the fight against HIV/AIDS in communities including Dayton, Buffalo, Berlin, Santa Monica and Miami. Grantees were chosen from a pool of applicants submitted to the TCCF Steering Committee, a group of cable industry professionals.

Cable Positive’s Tony Cox Community Fund grant recipients for Cycle 2 of 2006:
Care Resource-Miami, FL (Comcast Cable)
GMHC-New York, NY (Time Warner)
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team-Santa Monica, CA (Time Warner)
Living Beyond Belief-New York, NY (Time Warner)
St. Luke’s Hospital-New York, NY (Time Warner)
Hope’s Voice-New York, NY (Time Warner)
Global Impact Productions-New York, NY (Time Warner)
Downtown Community Television-Berlin, CT (Time Warner)
AIDS Resource Center Ohio-Dayton, OH (Time Warner)
Capital City AIDS Fund-Sacramento, CA (Comcast)
Jones Television-Springdale, AR (Cox Communication)
Southern Tier AIDS Program-Binghampton, NY (Time Warner)
Harlem Congregations for Community Involvement-New York, NY (Time Warner)
Black Leadership Commission on AIDS of Buffalo-Buffalo, NY (Time Warner)
Queens Child Guidance Center-New York, NY (Time Warner)

Established in 1996, the Tony Cox Community Fund, formerly known as the Tony Cox Fund for Local HIV/AIDS Programming, is named in honor of Winston "Tony" Cox, a founding Honorary Chair of Cable Positive and a major cable industry leader. As Chairman and CEO of Showtime Networks Inc. and throughout his career, Mr. Cox was a major advocate of original cable television programming and AIDS education. Since the program's inception, more than $1.1 million has been awarded to more than 230 AIDS service organizations in 35 states.

ABOUT CABLE POSITIVE

Cable Positive is a national non-profit organization founded February 1992 by three concerned cable executives with the mission of organizing cable’s resources in the fight against AIDS.  Cable Positive will mobilize the talents, resources, access and influence of the cable and telecommunications industry to raise HIV/AIDS awareness; support HIV/AIDS education, prevention and care; and strive to end stigma by creating a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV or AIDS.  Cable Positive has grown to include supporters from every major cable network, multiple system operator, cable system, hardware manufacturer, trade association, media publication, and affiliated industry vendors and suppliers.  Since 1992, Cable Positive has raised more than $16 million in the fight against AIDS.  For more information about Cable Positive, call 212.459.1502 or www.cablepositive.org