Video: World Malaria Day --- (April 25) --- David Beckham's 'Nothing But Nets' TV spot

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Friday is World Malaria Day - David Beckham's TV public service announcement
Published 4/25/2008 by Mr. Adventure at San Diego MLS Project
Friday, April 25 is World Malaria Day. Major League Soccer stars are working to raise awareness and funds to fight the disease. In this clever TV public service announcement airing around the world today, David Beckham encourages you to donate a $10 bed net to protect African children from malaria. http://nothingbutnets.org ( M.L.S. Works and the United Nations )

The MLS Commissioner and David Beckham on World Malaria Day
Published 4/25/2008 by Ric at The World's Beautiful Game
Friday, April 25 is World Malaria Day  Excerpt from the MLS Commissioner Don Garber’s letter on World Malaria Day… “MLS W.O.R.K.S., the League’s community outreach program is teaming up with the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign to raise money to purchase long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. Malaria is the leading killer of children in Africa and every 30 seconds a child dies from this devastating disease. With a simple bed net - - costing only $10 dollars, a child’s life can be saved.” “Throughout 2008, Major League Soccer and national partner ...

World Malaria Day is Today - words from MLS, video from Becks
Published 4/25/2008 by Mr. Adventure at MLS Expansion And Development
Excerpt from the MLS Commissioner Don Garber's letter on World Malaria Day... "MLS W.O.R.K.S., the League's community outreach program is teaming up with the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to raise money to purchase long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. Malaria is the leading killer of children in Africa ...

VIDEO: Happy World Malaria Day?
Published 4/25/2008 by The Beautiful Game at The Beautiful Game
I had no idea. Beckham did. Seen over at BallHype.

Beckham Watch - Beckham Mania 2008 update
Published 4/26/2008 by Mr. Adventure at San Diego MLS Project
... http://ballhype.com/video/video_new_cnn_report_on_the_david_beckham_academy/ He appeared on Thursday's edition of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"... http://ballhype.com/video/ellen_david_beckham_takes_his_shirt_off_at_the_end_of/ Yesterday (Friday, April 25), his public service announcement for World Malaria Day aired around the world.  Watch the video here... http://ballhype.com/video/video_world_malaria_day_april_25_david_beckham_s/ Busy Guy !  He and ...

Beckham Mania and the “May Sweeps” period
Published 4/29/2008 by Ric at The World's Beautiful Game
This real-life in real-time example is a good tutorial for any of you who don’t already know about the importance and impact of a TV sweeps period, which impacts sports and our bigger celebrity culture as much as anything does in entertainment or sports… ‘Sweeps’ originally came from ’sweepstakes’, and for TV this is a quarterly ritual in which every network, every TV programmer and producer, and every station in the biggest cities down to every tiny berg pulls out all of the stops to catch the attention of you the viewer.  In short, it is a time when ad revenues are determined for future times. Therefore, ...