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The Two Sheds Review: Bye Bye Fight Network
Written by: Julian Radbourne - December 03rd, 2008
THE TWO SHEDS REVIEW by Julian Radbourne
E-mail: julian@twoshedsreview.com
Website: www.twoshedsreview.com
On March 15th, 2004, I felt like a kid in a sweet shop, because it was on that day my television viewing habits changed. Well, for a while anyway.
That day saw the launch of The Wrestling Channel, the world’s first ever channel dedicated to the noble art of professional wrestling, and the line-up looked tremendous. From America we had Total Non-Stop Action, Major League Wrestling and Ring of Honor. From Japan we had Pro Wrestling NOAH and New Japan. From Mexico we had CMLL. And from Britain, we had the Frontier Wrestling Alliance (and the less said about that deal the better).
The euphoria only lasted for a few months. As time went on the wrestling programming became interspersed with live phone-in game shows such as Bikini Beach, and an adult entertainment show called Bang Babes (which morphed into a late-night live sex phone-in channel). Eventually, these gave way, but there was a price.
When it seemed that professional wrestling alone couldn’t sustain the channel, mixed martial arts was introduced into the equation, beginning with the British Cage Warriors promotion. Other non-wrestling programming was soon introduced, including an awful show which saw your average Joe Public enter the boxing ring to engage in fights which were frankly quite shocking and which never should have seen the light of day in the first place. Thankfully that particular show only lasted one week.
But by this time the cracks were already beginning to appear. The dream of the all-wrestling television channel seemed to be going down the pan, and when rival channel Bravo brought the rights to TNA’s programming, the writing seemed on the wall.
So after The Wrestling Channel became TWC, then TWC Fight, the Canadian-based Fight Network stepped in.
Professional wrestling was pushed to the back of the schedule, with only LDN, Ring of Honor and the decades old World of Sport shows thriving as mixed martial arts became the mainstay of the new Fight Network. At first things seemed to go quite well. It was good to see some of these promotions, even though the shows were a few years old.
But if truth be known, this particular fight fan was getting a little bored with the channel, especially when the same shows seemed to be broadcast over and over again, and there was hardly any new programming. The last Ring of Honor show I saw on the channel had a main event of Samoa Joe v C.M. Punk. The English Boxing show seemed to show the same old Billy Schwer fight all the time, and the channel’s finest moment seemed to be Amberlady Honey Wars, an Lithuanian show that saw scantily-clad young ladies rolling around in sticky honey, much to the delight of the crowd watching.
Then, this past Monday, it all came to an end. As I was channel surfing that morning, the regular programming had been replaced by a standard test card. A few hours later the channel was gone from the system completely.
At the time of writing, two days later, there still hasn’t been any official announcement from The Fight Network about the channel’s status. We still don’t know if it’s gone for good or if it will be coming back in the future.
Which means that professional wrestling and mixed martial arts fans have been hit hard in Britain. Wrestling fans will now have to make do with watching WWE on Sky, or TNA on Bravo, while the only televised MMA we’ll see in over here will come in the form of UFC on Setanta, or the occasional Cage Gladiators show on ITV4. We’re even going to lose Cage Rage when Nuts TV closes down in a few weeks. All of this will mean that fans will turn to the internet even more, looking for torrent downloads and watching the shows on their computers, which, for this old fashioned writer, just doesn’t seem right somehow. A television show should be watched on television!
A few people have posted on forums wondering what they could have done to save the channel. I think the simple answer to this was that probably nothing could be done. Perhaps if they’d actually bothered to advertise the channel, and had made more of an effort to get more up-to-date programming, then people may have watched. But in the end yours truly, like countless other combat sports fans, just got tired of seeing the same thing over and over again, and that’s what cost the channel dearly in the end.
I wonder why these guys even have a shareholders meeting? They own the majority of shares. 5000:1 reverse split voted on by 61%. What shareholder in their right mind would vote for this?
Fonix Reports on Shareholders' Meeting
09:15 a.m. 12/03/2008 Provided By Market Wire
SALT LAKE CITY, UT -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/03/08 -- Fonix Corporation (FNIX) reports on the Annual Shareholder Meeting held on December 2, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the meeting more than 59% of the company's shares were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting.
Fonix (FNIX) shareholders elected Roger D. Dudley as Director. He currently serves as Chairman, President and CEO. He will serve until the next annual meeting.
Shareholders also approved the appointment of Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell as the independent public accounts for the company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008. Holders of the Company's Class A common stock, by nearly 61% of the common stock voting on the proposal, voted to approve the reverse split of its common shares. The Company's Board of Directors, after consideration of the four authorized ratios, has determined to effectuate a reverse split at a ratio of one new share for 5,000 old shares.
The Company will provide additional information about the implementation of the reverse stock split as it becomes available.
About Fonix (FNIX)
Fonix Corporation (FNIX), based in Salt Lake City, Utah, currently operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fonix Speech, Inc., an innovative speech recognition and text-to-speech technology company that provides value-added speech solutions. Fonix Speech offers voice solutions for mobile/wireless devices; interactive video games, toys and appliances; computer telephony systems; the assistive market and automotive telematics. Fonix Speech provides developers and manufacturers with cost-effective speech solutions to enhance devices and systems. Visit www.fonix.com for more information, or call (801) 553-6600 and say "Sales."
Statements released by Fonix (FNIX) that are not purely historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the Company's expectations, hopes, intentions and strategies for the future. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business prospects and performance. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Risk factors include general economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors as discussed in the Company's filings with the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. The Company does not undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release.
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I completely agree. He needs to say something to keep this afloat. If he is ok with shareholders thinking the worst then thats his choice, but the buzz about this stock is waning and his lack of understanding this fact will eventually doom all interest. He ,at present , is doing a disservice to his company and it's shareholders in my opinion. A shareholders letter or progress PR is not too much to ask and he will find out soon enough that keeping us in the dark will only cause harm in the long run. Clayton we are your shareholders,we have supplied you with the cash you need to progress your company, please do us the courtesy of giving us something to let us know that our efforts are not in vain. Should you continue this tack, the interest as well as your shareholders will most assuradly leave and the company suffers. We need you and you need us, so please give us the courtesy of an update. We are not asking for the world just a freaking update as to the progress thus far.
I agree, a shareholders letter answering all the questions seems long overdue. Interest in this company is waning. Claytons going to find out soon enough that his company image means a lot and that buying and selling of stock is important to a growing publically trading company. He is doing the company a disservice as well as the shareholders.
YES!!!!!!!!!GO UNBANNED LONGS!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats the indication I got from him
As I said before I feel better today than I felt last week when BKMP was close to getting wiped out. We still own shares in TFNG at present. By now I thought the Mayhem boys would have stole them already.
Test Test 1....2....3....
It works great here!!!!!!!!!
thunderjett the bottom line is that the a/s has not changed as reported so at a maximum the O/S is 100 million. Still very low for a pink sheet stock and in my opinion very undervalued.
Still 100 million A/S or can you say different?
TOOFY PEED IN IT. I NEED A NEW ONE IN THE PACKAGE STILL BECAUSE IT COULD BE FOULED BEFORE I GET IT..
YOUR BACK STILL SCREWED UP .IT'S APPROACHING LAWSUIT TIME AND WHEN YOU DO SETTLE WE NEED A TRUCKLOAD OF PRETZELS
YOUR BACK IS NOW A COMMUNITY BACK. YOU NEED TO STICK SOME BEER SALVE IN THAT BACK
I DID HAVE IT FLUSHED
IT'S THE FRIGGIN BEER FUNNELL DAMMIT AND TOOFY PEED IN IT. SO NOW IT'S FOULED AND WE HAVE TO GO THE SLOW APPROACH AND DRINKING FROM THE KEG.
THAT TRUELY SUCKS ON SOOOOOOO MANY LEVELS. YOU CANNOT EVER HOLD MY FUNNEL AGAIN
STILLLLLLL????????? DAMMIT MAYBE IT WAS THE VOODOO CURSE THAT YOU DIDNT HAVE TO WORK ANYMORE??? THAT DOC NEEDED TO STICK SOME TITANIUM IN THAT BACK
DAMMIT ...TELL ME YOU DIDNT PEE IN THE BLUE ONE!!!!!!!!!!
YES GIMME THAT FRIGGIN BEER HOSE!!!!!!!!HOW THE HELL ARE YA BRO??????????
HEY I GOT MY CAR BACK......4 GRAND AND MY FRIGGIN HEATER STILL DOESNT WORK...........DAMMIT
IS THAT A BEER FIREHOSE???????????DAMMIT I'M GONNA NEED A HUGE ASS FUNNEL
DAMMIT GET YOUR ARSE IN HERE. I NEED SOMEONE TO HOLD THE FREAKIN FUNNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHERE ALL DA STUMP JUMPIN DRANKERS?
WEEEEEEEE ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT??????????????
You think the CRTC would hold up Mayhems plans if any of us had concerns? No way. Since Sandy, Mike, Andrea, Big John,and Brian all gave substantial reasons as to why this should not go forward, I think it may give pause to the CRTC and such allow BKMP to keep their shares and our investment would still be intact. If they didnt step forward we would most definately lose it all. It still may happen but as I stated before I feel better about it today than yesterday.
I DONT WANT TO SPEND ALL MY BRAIN CELLS AT ONCE BUT THEN AGAIN I'M GETTING OLDER AND I CAN ALWAYS BLAME IT ON OLD AGE.
No I dont believe that however burger(I believe) stated that there were 8 million viewers (not subscibers) in the UK and quite frankly I do not know the subscription situation over there
All I know is he holds more clout than anyone to stop Mayhem from stealing our shares. Without his input we were toast. With it we stand a chance to keep our shares.
Well I'm sure his letter will help us as well by not disolving BKMP's shares.
I MAY START DRANKING AGAIN DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well the CRTC report didnt show any of the non voting shareholders maybe he received these shares when he relinguished control of TFN. Not sure
I guess these could be BKMP
I currently hold directly and indirectly 7,190,000 class "B" shares of TFN Global
Just making a point that in my opinion TFN is not doing as badly as the Mayhem boys are trying to sell.
Oh yea the Fight Network is doing terrible with their 10,000,000 subscribers. LOLOL
http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_central/albernivalleynews/sports/34414574.html
So you wanna fight?
Published: November 13, 2008 1:00 PM So You Wanna Fight returns to Nanaimo by popular demand on Saturday, Nov. 22.
So You Wanna Fight has gained tremendous popularity nationwide with its daily airing on The Fight Network. TFN has 10,000,000 subscribers and So You Wanna Fight is their most frequently aired event.
One of the most exciting additions to So You Wanna Fight is the Mixed Martial Arts.
The Toughman boxing portion of the event features tough guys like bouncers, bikers, brawlers, rednecks, ruff necks and no necks. The Mixed Martial Arts divisions are attracting skilled athletes highly trained in boxing, kickboxing, judo, ju-jitsu, Brazilian jujitsu or wrestling.
The rules for SYWF Mixed Martial Arts are unique and designed to give full throttle action for the entire bout, says a SYWF spokesperson.
“Unlike most MMA bouts where fighters can lay on the ground for the entire round attempting to find a vantage point on their opponent, the SYWF Mixed Martial Arts rules are one, three-minute round and the fighters have a 30-second ground rule. If after 30 seconds on the ground they have not submitted their opponent they are brought back to their feet and the action starts all over again.
“There is never any boring ground time in these fights.”
What makes this event so exciting is that the fighters do not know anything about their opponent, their style of fighting, or who it is until they face each other in the ring. Then if they win they will do that three times in one night to win their weight division.
This event takes place at the Shell Beach Recreation Centre on Shell Beach Road just south of the Nanaimo airport. Doors open at 6 p.m., fights start at 7 p.m.
Advanced tickets are available by calling (250) 751-3657.
He as well as others are trying in my opinion. If he does save the day then I think a small modicum of thanks is required. What happens afterwards is cake in my opinion because we were just days of losing it all. If Sandy hadnt sent that then I would say that our investment is surely gone however now I'm not so sure. I feel much better today than I felt yesterday about BKMP.
I will email him tonight. He has always remained cordial to me, as well as friendly. I'm not one to send hate-filled emails though I understand the anger that many here have expressed on the board as well as with Sandy and I have realized long ago that I am responsible for my own buying actions. I dont blame anyone, including Sandy, for my own investment except myself. Just my opinion.
Maybe Sandy is much richer than we gave him credit for or maybe he is speaking on behalf of all the shareholders ? Not sure. At this point though he may save his investment and at the same time save he is saving ours. I say go get em Sandy.
He also offered to buy the so-called debt that the Mayhem boys said existed. We will see.
MAN O MAN. Perhaps I misjudged the guy. I will send an email to him tonight.