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Hmmmm could Dick Chimney be Dick Cheney??? Im not sure where he was going with the rest..but I must say its interesting to read.....
Both "turn key" and "fiber optics" are listed... I guess that could describe a few though... does sound interesting, doesnt it?
could this be the one?..... Burbank, is it greater Los Angelos
area?
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Burbank TV Studio For Sale
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Advert ID: 218379
Burbank, California - South, United States
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Asking price: $3,100,000
Sales revenue: $3,500,000
Net profit: $880,000
Furniture/Fixtures value: $2,000,000
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Sunbelt Business Brokers of Beverly Hills Presents: Burbank Television Studio Complex offered for sale. State of the art broadcast facility with two large stages, three edit suites, fully equipped with absolutely everything! Cameras, VTR's, switchers, lighting, fiber optics for live television, all support equipment, eleven completely furnished dressing rooms, fully outfitted offices. Over two million dollars worth of equipment and furnishings, with no debt! Located in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world: Burbank, California!! Ideal for independent production companies, cable networks, television ministries, shopping networks, telemarketers, corporations, universities and entrepreneurial individuals. There is a large clientele of existing businesses. Company has been established for over ten years. Owners are retiring. A truly once in a lifetime chance to have a turn-key studio complex in the Hollywood community. Must be seen to be believed. Seller is willing to take a reduced price of $2,650,000 for an all cash purchase.
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Thanks....email sent. You are right, a couple of the others just kept wanting me to sign up for whatever...
And to clarify that, I think gay tv is wonderful for those who want gay tv....... I do have gay friends but there is no need to ask them if they subscribe...it aint here girlfriend!
So??? Skunks has been here almost from conception and perhaps she is closer to this subject than alot of others...and I dont give a hoot whether she is frank in drag or whatever...if she has made a point, then she has made a point! If you can seperate fact from fiction then so be it...I dont have a problem with the survey either, but I do think it will have no real value if the data pertains to people or areas that either do not give a rats patootie about gay tv or cant subscribe! Not all investors are potential customers... I havent even turned on a dang tv in weeks!
The survey does not ask if you live in an area that currently carries RCN... so the last question, do you subscribe to QTN or do you know someone who does is incomplete. I think that is where Skunks was going. Also, Im not gay, so Im not necessarily interested in subscribing. Of course I dont have any cable or sat..so maybe Im just not into television....
Old post are better than no post...shows at least that someone else is interested! I get tired of seeing nothing on this board, but I havent come up with anything new either so I guess I cant complain....
ec Okay... chatter includes PR sucked. I am a huge supporter but I must say this one SUCKED! Also, you didnt grow up in Florida did you? Bobby Burrows mean anything? Probably not.
geez EC...if I go to buy a car, can I look you up? By the way, if you know of anyone interested in a 74 xj12 jag sedan...let me know. Interior trashed but has a brand new gas tank! PR sucked.
that was supposed to be visability not viability.....
thats too bad about the hood ornaments....shows you I dont pay much attention to cars...but if they have same parts different suppliers...whats the difference? And if Qbid has a carrier and is not recognized by John Q public, what difference is that going to make? I think a carrier is in the offing; but a carrier and subscribers means viability needs to be priority imo
sorry...double post...impatience..
hmmm...so if I buy a Kia for thousands less... and its made from the same parts as a mercedes.....it does make me smarter though.....right? And who knows? Someday kia might have a hood ornament that warrents ripping off......
hmmm...so if I buy a Kia for thousands less... and its made from the same parts as a mercedes.....it does make me smarter though.....right? And who knows? Someday kia might have a hood ornament that warrents ripping off......
zandant.....
you may have liked mine better but yours may be more likely...hee hee..
Ligge....
I tried to unscramble the last riddle and came up with the words direct tv jun 23 movie box luck...now I don't know if you scrambled them around what else you could come up with...but there is no s in the clue... nor P but I dont know if it is scrambled words or if its something else..I guess you can make of it what you want.....
thanks Kinger... I would like to think that this is the start of something big...that now maybe solar will be on its way to being the norm instead of the exception...and perhaps this stock could move up right along with it! Im not in this stock as of yet, but am looking closely... thanks again.
Kinger...does this work with` standard solar mechanisms...if that is the word Im looking for...I will check out website...I keep thinking that solar is still the way to go and that it can only get better....
Thanks Robertmic... I was wondering what happened to the airing..I couldn't help but be fearful of it makent sentiment wise even though I know its the best thing to happen and glad to see its being addressed.....
Desert...
hmmmmm...how do I respond to that; I guess its not the kissing its the watching... and the idea that homophobia is gender biased is so...so.....ludicrous?
kudos neal...
uh... pie...ice cream... apple pie ice cream?
Spring Rain...
late response but Ive been doing enough of that lately without doing it intentionally..... but when I hit a dry spell I will try to ram one for ya... hee hee...we have plenty of them here I do believe since I live in the retirement county of the USA... lots of fishes on those cars....but believe it or not thats the first bumper band aid of that kind I have seen. Of course I didnt catch on right away this time either...
Its so funny...Im straight but on the way home while ago a car in front of me had this bumper sticker that showed man/woman symbol = marriage, and I was at the red light thinking, what the hell are they talking about! It took me a minute to realize that it was the gay marriage right thing! Ha! Ive been in this stock so long that I have trouble seeing the obvious I guess! Ha! Okay, Im really out of here this time....
yes..she as much said that...I had to fish because I'm not in a brighthouse area...Im in no cable area! But I have to say she was pleasant and curious about Q....
Good morning and good day since I just butted in this thread..love to check up and see whats going on and I am not disappointed... have a wonderful day!
I love the fact that it will remain family programming...I think that is so key.....
called Brighthouse 394 Clermont/Orlando Fla area...rep said she has not heard anything about it but would put thru a marketing order.....
BB..while bottom line for the investors is the dollar, and a buyout may bring this about..I think I would rather see Q become a star in its own right... I know that Franks vision is to build this for the gay communiy, and while Im straight this has almost become a mission even in my own mind.... and I think he will more than succeed..
rhawk,
thanks for the info... I still think that its a huge step in achieving the end result...the nature of this channel requires different presentation and exposure to the content of Q in this manner should offend no one... like it or not, it is still a topic that some people would like to see go away... oh yes, if it werent for people like you and skunks, people like me would not have near the education in these companies..its not always by choice that we do not contribute more... sometimes circumstances are just as much the culprit...have a good day....
end2war
yes but if you notice how easy it happens...when some of the posters are giving current price, notice how many of them leave out the zeros after the decimal...used to give me a start when I saw that! Butyour right, some of the charts from various sources take weeks for the correct info to be given!
OBN Holdings... Thanks Skunks!
As usual you have cut the bashers off at the knees! Sounds like a very well staffed company with giving the Q a lot of exsposure, which is exactly what everyone has been wanting!Again thanks!
Thanks foxy for the preview... looks like everyone was having fun including Frank! The last couple of pix 44 thru 47, were those sponsors? I couldnt tell.... thanks again!
That was a good piece... thanks firefight. Her thots could certainly be applied to other issues as well..
Big Tips..nobody knows where your money comes from either...we all want to know how YOU do it...maybe Frank wants to know too... Frank may have gazillions of dollars to back up any offer he makes...you dont know and neither does anyone else on this board I imagine....
Good night all....Monday should be a good day ....
Semp...Thats when Craig took over, of which Frank would be buying from....
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I cancelled my subscription to the world’s first all-gay television network, Canada’s very own PrideVision, in a fit of exasperation. I was spending eight hard-earned bucks a month for a bunch of lousy reruns and midnight porn interrupted by commercial breaks at the most inopportune moments. You could hear the groans in living rooms right across the Great White North and, honey, they weren’t groans of pleasure.
So I trashed PrideVision in this column and pissed off a few folks at the network. PrideVision said they had 22,000 subscribers. When I quit, I wrote, “That’s 21,999 and counting.”
Recently, bestselling Canadian author Irshad Manji (who headed CHUM’s failed competing bid for a CRTC license) told me, “I wish them well but I don’t subscribe to that channel [either]. They can call it PrideVision but I don’t know where the vision is.”
Then the shit really hit the fan. Headline Media Group, which owns PrideVision, laid off most staffers and put the sad-sack station, which has lost $16 million since its inception in 2001, up for sale.
Fortunately, Canadian white knight Bill Craig arrived in the nick of time. Last December he offered to buy the network for $2.6 million, which includes the station’s $1.1 million debt-load. The CRTC will likely approve the sale by this June.
So I tracked Bill Craig down in Bermuda (where he is building a wireless cable system) to get his thoughts on queer TV. After all, Craig is a gay man—though he was a married father of two sons until he divorced his supportive wife a decade ago.
Not surprisingly, when Craig offered to buy PrideVision, his sexual orientation and thoughts about gay life escaped the notice of Canada’s mainstream press—until now. “This has been a real lesson for me,” says Craig, who knows a thing or two about the TV biz after holding programming positions at the CBC, TV Ontario and Rogers Cable, as well as serving as a CRTC senior policy analyst in the 1970s before creating four regional sports networks in the USA and founding the now-defunct iCravetv.com. The man knows TV, but folks still think he’s nuts for buying PrideVision.
“I have tried to get investors to come on board, including out gay people,” Craig explains. “Oscar Wilde’s phrase ‘The love that dare not speak its name’ is very profound because [the gay community] is the only minority that the majority thinks you can hide it. And if you don’t hide it, that means you’re in their face. But if you’re black or Chinese or a woman, you can’t help that. Tell them that you’re gay and they say, ‘Why are you telling me that?’ It’s not that it’s bad—it’s just the love that’s not allowed to speak for itself. So people in the gay community who have money spend a lot of their capital convincing 90 per cent of the population that they understand the straight market and straight world. So a truce is drawn. This is like the Barry Dillers and David Geffens of the world. They spend their whole day fighting that or being embarrassed they are gay. So if they spend their money on PrideVision, it’s viewed as their losing touch with 90 per cent of the population.”
It’s just as bad for straight folks. “[Headline Media owner] John Levy says several people looked at buying the channel,” Craig says. “But if it’s a straight liberal person, they can’t stand the pressure at cocktail parties. [Levy was always asked] ‘Why did you choose to buy that channel? There are 400 other good channels!’”
Craig believes the key to PrideVision’s future success, in addition to fresh original programming, is distribution. “During the free preview period, PrideVision was in the top one or two in all demographics,” he says. “It had advertiser support and viewer support. The missing ingredient was distribution. In my mind the channel was corporately gaybashed. The way to kill a channel is to put it in subscription mode. The only [subscription channels] that work are movie-based. I mean, if you were to charge for Home & Garden you’d be lucky to get 500 subscribers.”
Though U.S. giant Viacom fast-tracked the creation of an American gay network last month, Craig (who also has American citizenship) says, “It’ll be tough sledding down there. This Janet [Jackson]-Gate is just the tip of the iceberg. In the United States they said, ‘Why did she show one breast?’ In Canada we went, ‘Why didn’t she show both of them?’”
That faith in the Canadian way has Craig looking forward to running PrideVision. “I’m told [my CRTC] chances are very good but I’m still touching wood as I speak,” Craig says. “I’m wrapping up my affairs here in Bermuda, then [my partner and I] go sailing in Guadeloupe and then I’ll come back to Toronto to manage PrideVision full-time.”
Perhaps then I’ll renew my subscription. V
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Skunks, that was over the top!