After
the success of last year's kid's right campaign, Nickelodeon is mobilising
kids for yets another edition of Say Yes For Nick campaign.
Working on the10 action points plan, for 2003, the Say Yes For Children
campaig's agenda this year is to Protect the Earth for Children.
As a part of the television campaign, the channel will air five
60 second specially created Public Service Announcements (PSA),
says a company release.
The PSA produced by English and Pockett's broadcast innovation
unit Pockett Rocket in partnership with design company Precursor
are designed to highlight the plight of our natural environment
and that of endangered species around the world. Besides that channels
will also be running localised competitions with an environmental
aspect, in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund.
According to MTV Networks International, President, Bill Roedy:
"Kids are inherently kind hearted and very aware of the issues
that impact their world. Through Nickelodeon we aim to empower our
viewers by providing them with the means to make a difference with
such issues as the environment. Our partnership with UNICEF is a
perfect fit, and we look forward to increasing our collaborations
with other organisations around the world."
The promotional campaign Nickelodeon's upcoming movie The Rugrats
Go Wild, is based on an environmental theme so as to complement
the networks public affairs commitment complement. In this animated
saga, Nickelodeon's Rugrats will meet up with the Wild Thornberrys
in a feature which explores global warming, environmental pollution,
natural preservation, and energy saving, adds the release.
Through the Say Yes campaign, Viacom's kids channel is putting
into action a pledge it made to supporting kid's rights through
the Children public affairs campaign that it adopted last year,
says a company release. The campaign launches in local markets around
the world over the next few weeks. The announcement was made by
Nickelodeon is partnering with UNICEF and WWF, the Conservation
Organisation, in this effort.
As a part of channels social initiative in 2001-2002, the Say
Yes campaign was supported in Asia with the broadcast of public
service announcements featuring Nickelodeon's "spokestoons"
from the channels popular show The Rugrats, Hey Arnold and
The Wild Thornberrys. Nickelodeon was the primary media partner
to UNICEF's children campaign.
Besides the public service campaigns an essay competition was held,
which has 15,000 entries around the region. The three winners from
Malaysia, India and Japan met Nelson Mandela and UN General Secretary
General, Kofi Annan at the Special Assembly for Children in May
2002, at United Nations.
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