CABLE POSITIVE ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR
4th ANNUAL POP AWARDS
NEW YORK, NY -
May 23, 2005
Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry’s AIDS action organization, has announced the nominees for the 4th Annual Positively Outstanding Programming (POP) Awards. Cable Positive’s POP Awards recognize and honor exceptional original HIV/AIDS-related cable television programming.
Winners will be announced at Cable Positive’s POP Awards ceremony on Monday, June 20, 2005 in New York at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel. For sponsorship and ticket information, please contact Thomas Henning at 212.459.1606 or thenning@cablepositive.org.
LIST OF NOMINEES: CABLE POSITIVE’S 4th ANNUAL POP AWARDS
- My Life in Verse, Showtime
- Naked Truth 3, BET
- Dangerous Deception: Living on the Down Low, Discovery Health Channel
- Tangy’s Song, BET
- Nip/Tuck: episode 15/Sean McNamara, F/X
- Queer As Folk: episode 410, Showtime
- Queer As Folk: episode 412, Showtime
- Soul Food: Angelitos Negros, Showtime
- Strong Medicine: Weights and Measures, Lifetime
- Get Perspective Campaign, MTV
- Rap It Up Campaign, BET
- Save The Humans Campaign, MTV
- Scenes From A Safer World Campaign, MTV
- VH1/Global Fund Campaign, VH1
- 106 + Park: World AIDS Day, BET
- Dumpster, VIACOM with The Kaiser Family Foundation
- Here To Remember, here!
- Knowing is Beautiful Campaign, VIACOM with The Kaiser Family Foundation
- Open Mic: Check Yourself, BET
Cable Positive will hand out an award for Outstanding Community Partnership. The award will recognize the partnership between a local cable outlet and a community-based AIDS service organization to provide locally focused programming in the fight against AIDS. Nominees in this category are:
- 2004 Winter Walk For AIDS,
Triad Health Project and Time Warner Cable North Carolina
- Get Tested/Knowledge is Power, Red River Valley Community Action and Midcontinent Communications
- I Found PSA,
AIDS Service Center and Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey
In 2002, Cable Positive launched the first POP Awards to honor the important role cable television has in promoting HIV prevention, raising AIDS awareness and reducing stigma and fear surrounding the disease. Cable Positive is dedicated to promoting and highlighting informative and educational HIV/AIDS-related cable television as a means of empowering people in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Nominations by Network
BET – 6
Showtime – 4
MTV – 3
VIACOM – 2
CNN – 1
Discovery Health Channel – 1
F/X – 1
here! – 1
Lifetime – 1
VH1 - 1
ABOUT CABLE POSITIVE
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 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 $10 million in the fight against AIDS. For more information about Cable Positive, call 212-459-1502 or log on to www.cablepositive.org.
