New York -- Cable Positive Tuesday evening presented the Joel A. Berger Memorial Award to Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable, the nation’s second-largest operator of cable systems.
Britt called it a “great honor” after splitting the spotlight with three other Time Warner Cable executives, including Harriet Novet, vice president of Time Warner Cable of New York.
“It’s time to stop losing our friends and loved ones" to AIDS, Novet said at the AIDS-fighting organization's annual dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel here.
She was standing in for Suzanne Giuliani, director of public relations for Time Warner Cable of New York, who helped to raise $60,000 in the past year for efforts to stop the ravages of AIDS. Giuliani, Novet noted, lost two “good friends” to AIDS recently.
Britt noted that Cable Positive has raised $16 million for its campaign to offset the deadly effects of AIDS in its 15 years of existence, and that Time Warner had donated $25 million worth of public-service announcements and the cable industry $1 billion worth of time to combat the destroyer of the human body’s immunity system.
Britt succeeds past honorees that include: Jim Robbins, retired CEOof Cox Communications (2006); Carole Black, former CEOof Lifetime Entertainment Services (2005); Showtime Networks CEO Matt Blank (2004); Robert L. Johnson and Debra Lee of BET (2003); and Bill McGorry, former publisher of Multichannel News (2002).
The award is named for Joel A. Berger, also a former publisher of Multichannel News, who died of complications due to AIDS in April 1995.
