CTPAA Names Award Winners

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Cox Communications of Baton Rouge has won the Cable Television Public Affairs Association's (CTPAA) ESPN Good Sports award, while VH1 will get the group's Joel A. Berger Award.

The ESPN award, for "outstanding community involvement through education and athletics," goes to Cox's Football, Food and Families program, a multimedia campaign combining high school football and food banks to fight hunger.

The Berger award, for an AIDS awareness public-affairs campaign, goes to VH1's "Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis."

The awards will be given out at the Beacon Awards ceremony Tuesday, March 21, in Washington.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.