Africast Names Michael Day Chief Financial Officer

Africast Names Michael Day Chief Financial Officer

NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Day was named Executive V. P., CFO of Africast Global Media, the parent company of Africast TV, America's first Pan-African movie channel offering popular African movies, dramas and documentaries as subscription video on demand at http://www.africast.tv/.

Day has more than 20 years of financial management and accounting experience. Most recently he was Senior Vice President, Finance for MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, where his responsibilities included network financial planning and forecasting, cash flow budgeting and management. He had a leading role in integrating two merged units, CBS cable operations and Comedy Central.

From 1993 to 1998, Day held positions with the Walt Disney Company, including Director, Corporate Financial Reporting and Corporate Planning & Accounting. He was with Deloitte & Touche from 1983 to 1993 and left as an audit Senior Manager.

Day is a CPA and holds an MBA in finance from Columbia University. His memberships include National Black MBA Association, National Association of Black Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Several award-winning films are currently being featured on Africast's online movie channel. "The Campus Queen," premiering on Africast exclusively in the U.S., is celebrated Nigerian filmmaker Tunde Kelani's campus caper of music and rival student organizations, explored earlier in Spike Lee's "School Daze."

Rated one of the year's 10 Best Films in 2000 by The Village Voice, La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun), is about a determined crippled girl reinventing herself as Senegal's first female newspaper vendor.

Dole (Money) offers a perspective on the crisis facing today's youth. With family and social structures crumbling they increasingly rely on each other and pop culture revealing that, whether in Gabon or elsewhere, youthful disaffection is remarkably similar.

Sango Malo (The Village Teacher), Brazilian educator Paolo Freire's intimate portrait of social and economic changes in an African village in Cameroon that contrasts two views of education: traditional, "Eurocentric" curriculum that produces docile colonial administrators, versus the practical skills needed to build self-reliant rural communities.

Africast TV provides viewers with an entertaining and informative window into the richness and promise of Africa and fills a void by providing appealing entertainment to the global African community that is aware of its heritage and hungry for quality programming.

Contact: Michael Di Scipio Di Scipio & Associates 203-966-6000 diassoc@att.net

Source: Africast Global Media

CONTACT: Michael Di Scipio, +1-203-966-6000, diassoc@att.net, of Di Scipio & Associates

Web site: http://www.africast.tv/

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