Are you serious, SmallDaddy? This board can't ban or suspend your account?

SmallDaddy, you're hilarious!

Announce the hosts either before or after the bell. If Q announces during trading session, that means the hosts are not top billings! JMHO!

XM Satellite doesn't have a gay channel yet. Sirius does!

Give us that PR before the bell, Frank! Lay it on us real thick! We can take it!

Which carrier is the 150 stations? RCN? Or another carrier?

Thanks for the post, IrishBull. Now I feel even more sure than ever about Q! Time for me to load up on more shares of Q!

Steve Perry is BSing in Raging Bull. I asked him to provide the link to that article and he can't! Oh well!

Can anyone post the link to that Philadelphia Inquirer article?

Rubenstein doing their part, of course! Making sure that the Top Ten was about Q Television Network, not some other network.

http://www.gaylinknews.com/prdetail.cfm?id=5084

QTV on LETTERMAN
01/11/2005 (01:45 PM)

FROM: Q TELEVISION NETWORK

CONTACT: Rubenstein Associates Andy Shearer (212) 843-8061 / ashearer@rubenstein.com

Q TELEVISION NETWORK HITS THE "LATE SHOW"

DAVID LETTERMAN'S TOP TEN LIST, JANUARY 10, 2005: TOP TEN SHOWS ON THE NEW GAY CABLE NETWORK

New York, NY (11 January 2005) - Q Television Network was the focus of CBS-TV's "Late Show with David Letterman's Top Ten List" last night, January 10, 2005.

Letterman quipped, "There is a new gay cable channel entitled Q Television Network (what would the Q stand for?) to provide programming for the gay, lesbian and bisexual community. (Be nice if the bisexuals got their own channel, wouldn't it?")

Top Ten Shows on the new gay cable network: 10. "Everybody loves Raymond....especially Steve." 9. "CSI: San Francisco" 8. "Inside the actor's studio apartment in the West Village" 7. "Law and Order: Special Antiquing Unit" 6. "King of Queens" 5. "Desperate Houseboys" 4. "Stone Phillips-Unleashed" 3. "Malcolm in the Middle" 2. "My wife and kids....have no idea" 1. "Press the meat"

"Awareness is growing as we continue to be recognized as the gay network of choice by celebrities and the general public," said Frank Olsen, President and CEO of Q Television Network.

The list can also be viewed on the official Late Show with David Letterman web site at http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/.

Q TELEVISION NETWORK is currently the home for such original programming as "Q on the Move," a travelogue of gay-friendly places, people and events; "WOW! Women on Women," a lesbian talk show; "Q the Music," a video program, "In Foqus," a biography program, and "On Q Live," an interactive news program and recently announced "Good Morning Gay America," a live news and entertainment morning program. Q Television can be found on RCN on Channel 255. For further information on programming and subscriptions please visit www.qtelevision.com . About Q Television Network This television network was organized to create and develop a network devoted to providing television programming for the gay and lesbian community. While the company expects much of its subscriber base to be comprised of members of the gay and lesbian population, management also believes that quality programming about the gay and lesbian experience, designed to entertain, educate and inform, will attract many other segments of the viewing public. The company's programming will be available on a subscription basis to those desiring its programming. The network will broadcast 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Providing distribution via satellite ensures availability of the network across the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. For further information on programming and subscriptions, please visit www.qtelevision.com .

Better luck tomorrow or with other publications.

Zandant, the way things look right now, I'll gladly take the $0.10 just to get it over with. I much prefer $0.50 though. LOL!

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA495802.html?display=Breaking+News

Redstone: We’d Leverage to Buy Nets
By Mike Farrell 1/12/2005 5:31:00 PM

Viacom Inc. chairman Sumner Redstone said the focus of the entertainment giant will continue to be on high-growth businesses, adding that he would be willing to leverage the company and lower its credit rating in order to free up cash for share buybacks or cable-network acquisitions.

Redstone, speaking at the Citigroup Smith Barney Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications conference in Phoenix Tuesday night, said Viacom is considering lowering its credit rating from its current “A-minus” level. He added as an example that lowering the company’s rating to “triple-B” would free up billions of dollars in cash.

“We are now scrutinizing our A-minus rating,” Redstone said. “Our competitors have ratings below that, and we are looking at the question as to whether we should accept a lower rating, leverage the company up and use the money to benefit our stockholders.”

That benefit could be in the form of increasing its stock-buyback program -- Viacom has already purchased about $2 billion of its own stock, and it has authorized an $8 billion buyback program -- or through acquisitions of cable channels.

Redstone would not specify just what cable networks he would consider purchasing.

“We’re in the market for any good cable channel that is within our price range,” he said.

Other areas earmarked for that additional money are the Internet -- where Redstone said Viacom was “underinvested and underrepresented” -- and video games.

Redstone said he would like to return Viacom to the 15%-16% annual growth rates of the past, adding that the keys to achieving that goal are improving its Paramount Pictures movie studio and its Infinity Broadcasting Corp. radio unit.

He added that Viacom is also looking to shed underperforming assets, like its Canadian theater circuit and small-market radio and television stations.

Viacom may get that lower credit rating whether it wants to or not. In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Moody’s Corp. said Viacom’s rating could be lowered even if its board does not decide to increase the company’s leverage, “because of concern over management’s softened commitment to maintaining the rating, which increases the risk of higher-leverage targets to achieve the same goals in the longer-term.”

Viacom stock was down 11 cents each to $38.53 per share in afternoon trading Wednesday.

Good, I got a confidential e-mail, sort of, to send to you. I'll pm it to you at the Q Forum. So far I don't see you at the Q Forum!

You still over at the Q Forum? Same sign on name?

SmallDaddy or Drama or CIA. How are you?

News Out!

Paper-view! Can be through everybody, being carriers!

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/antipasto/333/



thom: weblog comments

Hello:

My name is Jack E. Jett and I Host/Moderate and 2 ½ hours live show every night on the new Q Television Network. This is the first GLBT network in the United States.

We will be attending the Inauguration of George W. Bush later this month. We would be very interested in interviewing someone from your group.

You can find out more about our show at http://www.qtelevision.com

Our aim will be to make sure that stories that other networks seem to leave out, will be covered by us.

I look forward to hearing from you and providing you with more information.

Jack E. Jett
Host
ON Q LIVE
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That's a great idea and they should sell it on the show or at CafePress.com.

QBIDSARROW, thanks. Good catch and work on the Letterman Top Ten.

http://shemag.com/first_feature/f_feature_main.asp

by: maria espinal
info@shemag.com

They may have been in the works for years, but only recently have gay and lesbian TV networks begun to make headlines. Is it because of the LGBT advertising dollar or, is it because there is more tolerance for our community? .

"I think that the presence of gay and lesbian shows helps to create a greater awareness in the mainstream of the experiences of LGBT people," says Meredith Kadlec, vice president of development for Here! a satellite service dedicated to gay and lesbian programming. "Ideally, greater awareness of our experiences can help breed tolerance. At the end of the day, however, LGBT people are a part of the mainstream."

LGBT viewers now have more options when it comes to seeing gay people on TV, and don't have to rely solely upon mainstream networks to provide it, but watch programming made by and for members of the LGBT community. Q Television Network (QTV), the television network for the gay and lesbian community, premiered its complete schedule of programming on RCN in Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco on November 1, 2004. It will convert to a subscriber-based channel at the end of January 2005. Here!, which is available on satellite and cable systems, premiered in August 2003. Dyke TV is available on satellite, and viewers can also watch segments online. In The Life Television, which has been broadcasting for 13 years, airs on over 130 public television stations nationwide, including all of the top 20 viewer markets, reaching over one million viewers per episode.

With the increase in gay and lesbian television networks, it would seem that LGBT programming is easier now than in previous years.

"One major difference between now and then is that there was really a huge momentum in the movement and there was a sense of urgency to get things done and to fight for our rights." says Jules Rosskam, executive producer for Dyke TV, the first lesbian cable access TV show for and about gay women, which aired its first episode in June 1993 on a small Manhattan cable channel and now airs on over 78 public access cable channels throughout the country. "I just think it is our time. The gay, lesbian and hopefully soon after, the transgender movements are coming into their own. I think, historically speaking, the movement of the world is continually towards a more liberal inclusive one and we are just part of that momentum."

But others in the business think this increase of programming may in fact be more about the battle for the LGBT dollar.

"In the '80s, no one would touch my show and no advertiser would come near it, and today they are falling all over you to be on the air with you. It's a tremendous economic difference," says Melinda Tremaglio, co-host of Q Television's Women on Women, a weekly 60-minute lesbian talk show dedicated to women's issues.

And Nadine Baldasare, supervising producer for In The Life, a national television series in a newsmagazine format airing monthly on PBS says, "Because of a saturated mass market, networks are shifting to more niche programming. Channels have expanded far beyond the four network system and according to advertising research, the LGBT community is one of the most affluent markets that remains untapped.

Other television insiders agree. "Estimates indicate that there are between 20 and 30 million gay and lesbian individuals in the U.S, with an estimated combined buying power of $500 billion," says Frank Olsen, Q Television's CEO and president. "In other words, there's a market for gay and lesbian television. I can't speak for other stations, but it is key as to why Q Television is moving forward now and is in greater demand."

There's just alot going on behind the scene we ordinary joe and jane just don't know about. Q is not a scam; we are way past that already. It's just a question whether it will be a success or a failure. SUCCESS is my bet!

That's how you do PR, the Rubenstein's way. You get the opposing team to advertise your product!

Zandant, I am betting my house that Letterman's Top Ten was the work of Rubenstein! Rubenstein is so well connected, I mean really connected!

I would venture to say that this is definitely the work of Rubenstein. Coincidence, I don't know about that!



http://www.rubenstein.com/code/areas.html

Media & Entertainment

ABC, Inc.

Al Roker Productions

American Media

Bloomberg L.P.

College Sports TV

Danielle Steel

Elle Girl Magazine

Harlem Week, Inc.

House & Garden

Lifetime Television

Ms. Maria Bartiromo

The Mottola Company

Rodale

Rush Communications

Tribeca Films

Walt Disney Company

Worldwide Pants - Late Show with David Letterman

Worldwide Pants - Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Yes Network

Posted by: firefight4
In reply to: firefight4 who wrote msg# 52863
Date:1/10/2005 4:01:27 PM
Post #of 52896

74 people!* "I want my Q Television" Sign-up List as of 4:02 PM.....
list was started this morning 01/10/05 around 9:30 am EST...
UPDATED LIST: 4:02 PM

If you want Q Television please put your cable or satellite carrier along with where you live. We will send this list to QBID after we have a good number of people on the list.....
The list may not be complete at times during the day but I will make sure to go through all the posts each night and keep the list in order as best as possible, thanks...
Maybe at a later date, I will send out a private message or email to everyone and we can compile a private list with our names, cable/satellite carrier and where we live and we can submit that to QBID. Let me think if i want to do all that work hahahaha

* New info- Would you switch carriers from Directv to DISH or vice versa or switch cable providers just to get Q television? Just put Yes or No after your cable/satellite provider and where you live. Example,
1)firefight4- Cablevision, Westchester NY, YES, I would switch from Cablevision to a Satellite provider that carries Q Television.

2)PBandJ- Directv Ft. Myers, FL
3) FOXY - Comcast,Toms River New Jersey
4)Robertmic71 - Directv, Long Island NY
5) BigT - Cablevision, Stamford, CT / Directv
6) lilpennypincher- Cablevision, Sussex Co. NJ
7) realityinc21-Insight Communications, Bloomington, Indiana
8) CHIMAN34 - Comcast, Addison Illinois
9)Matrixxx- West Palm Beach, FL, DirecTV
10)kosmomtx - Dishnetwork, Dallas, TX
11}BBSTOCK - COMCAST.ATLANTA ,GEORGIA
12)econnelle - Dish Network, Green Oak, MI
13)Dinger51 - Time Warner Cable - Cleveland, OH
14)nealgalt - Sierra Vista, AZ Directv
15)lobogotti - Comcast or Insight, Indianapolis, Indiana
16) willbur- comcast, chicago IL
17)Poot Poot- Charter, Ashford, CT
18)BillH- Direct TV, Sherman Oaks, CA
19)inin4the$-Comcast,Sacramento,CA
20)ct_here - Adelphia, Derby, CT
21)TrollSlayer- Cox RI Digital Cable
22)2MinuteWarning - Comcast, Chicago IL
23)zeus1 - RCN, Queens, NY
24)i_hate_fish - Adelphia - Boynton Beach Florida
25)Deann - Charter - Atlanta, GA
26) Islandboy -TW - Kihei, HI
27) Alessio2 - Kate - Slovenia
28)florist805 - adelphia cable. Thousand oaks, California
29)Cydog3-Comcast, Boston MA
30)kateric10 - Comcast, Salt Lake City Utah
31)jcradio - Barnegat, NJ Comcast
32)TCT - Comcast . Atlanta , Georgia
33) BoulderBuddy - Comcast - Boulder, Co
34) Doctoall- Elk Grove CA (Sacramento) Direct-TV & Comcast
35)D-more-d-better - Time Warner Cable - Staten Island, NY
36)Behoof -- DirectTV, Yale MI
37)Gmoney1-Mediacom, Waterloo, IA
38)Firefly - Comcast - Atlanta, GA
39)Randini- Dish Network, San Diego, CA
40)Ron2w -- Cox Communications, Santa Barbara, CA
41)gees - Comcast, Seattle, WA
42)shue15-adelphia, Colorado Springs, CO
43)4horseman0- adelphia/dish, Colorado Springs, CO
44)mr_geronimo, Time Warner Cable, Memphis, TN
45)TonyC-Whidbey Island,WA...Comcast, Co. Springs transplant.
46)Stanlee - Comcast, Portland OR. YES, would switch carriers to get Q Television.
47)djr63- Comcast- Maryland
48)Spockster202 - Seattle, Comcast
49)BnRStocks...Brick,NJ....Comcast
50)DougJohnson-DishNetwork, Cincinnati, OH, YES. I have informed both Dishnetwork and Direct TV that whichever one gets Q first I will purchase their satelite services.
51)sbpr14- Dish Network, Nashville,TN
52)Froman200 - Comcast - Chicago
53)Dadio56 Chicago WOW cable..
54)rexxus04 - Cablevision, NY
55)mozart - Comcast, Boston, MA
56)makingbacon comcast,rome,ga
57)Tradewell,DishNetwork Lake Tahoe, NV
58)whitero25- DISH
59)Zoo @ Comcast of Walled Lake Michigan
60)Catclause @ Comcast of Venice Florida
61)Knightslk.....Las Vegas,NV....Cox Cable
62)zandant, San Bruno, California,Directv (but willing to switch to Dish if they carry the Q! LOL.)
63)qbidsarrow- Matt W, Charter Communications, Wisconsin
64)98ZJNH- Hollis, NH, DISH Network
65)robg - Telemedia - Waterbury, CT, NO
66)DirtySanchez - Wide Open West, Taylor, MI
67)Gambit, Comcast, Boston Massachusetts
68)qbidlong -Timewarner- Memphis TN
69)jamieg- Comcast,westland mi,YES,would switch providers for Q
70)RickH- DISH, Seattle,WA, YES,I would switch to Comcast or DirectTV from DISH, depending on who carried QTN.
71)rpudd, direcTV Phoenix, AZ
72)HowsMusic4U - TW - Philly
73)OwossoBorn Comcast - LA, CA.
74)Until1mil,washington d.c,comcast
75)Clutch2005, NYC, Dish Network

Keep up the good work, BigTips. Don't stop your postings. I could use alot more lessons on your technical analysis. Thanks!

Heard it through the grapevine: Pepsi is one of our sponsors. Don't kill the messenger. It's just a rumor!

Could be redundant information.

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/041229/rcniv.pk8-k.html

NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James F. Mooney, Chairman of RCN, also currently serves as [Chairman of NTL, Incorporated], a provider of bundled telecommunications services, including voice, video, and data services, in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Prior to joining NTL, Mr. Mooney was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nextel Communications Inc. from April 2001 to September 2002. Before Nextel, from January 2000 to January 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Tradeout Inc., an asset management firm jointly owned by GE Capital Corp., eBay Inc. and Benchmark Capital. From April 1999 to January 2000, he was the Chief Financial Officer at Baan Company, a business management software provider that had dual headquarters in Amsterdam and Virginia. From 1980 to March 1999, Mr. Mooney held a number of positions with IBM, including his last position as Chief Financial Officer of the Americas. Mr. Mooney is a [director of Sirius Satellite Radio].

Does anyone know what happen to "On Q Live" that was suppose to be aired in the Seattle area in January on a digital cable station carried on Comcast Cable? Just want to know the update on it if there's any! Thanks.

I agree with you, momentumspeculator. No pink sheet company is going to spend a million dollar on an advertisement campaign for exposure and not have something else up its sleeve. This thing is just gather momentum before it is being shot out of a canon. I can't wait to get the specifcs on that 150 stations scenario. That's gotta include at least another carrier. Original programming is always king. Look at HBO, enough said.

Perhaps Here TV's video-on-demand strategy is not such a hot idea afterall.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html?tw=wn_story_top5

Issue 13.01 - January 2005

The BitTorrent Effect
Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here.
By Clive ThompsonPage 1 of 5 next »

"That was a bad move," Bram Cohen tells me. We're huddled over a table in his Bellevue, Washington, house playing a board game called Amazons. Cohen picked it up two weeks ago and has already mastered it. The 29-year-old programmer consumes logic puzzles at the same rate most of us buy magazines. Behind his desk he keeps an enormous plastic bin filled with dozens of Rubik's Cube-style twisting gewgaws that he periodically scrambles and solves throughout the day. Cohen says he loves Amazons, a cross between chess and the Japanese game Go, because it is pure strategy. Players take turns dropping more and more tokens on a grid, trying to box in their opponent. As I ponder my next move, Cohen studies the board, his jet-black hair hanging in front of his face, and tells me his philosophy of the perfect game."The best strategy games are the ones where you put a piece down and it stays there for the whole game," he explains. "You say, OK, I'm staking out this area. But you can't always figure out if that's going to work for you or against you. You just have to wait and see. You might be right, might be wrong." It's only later, when I look over these words in my notes, that I realize he could just as easily be talking about his life.

Bram Cohen is the creator of BitTorrent, one of the most successful peer-to-peer programs ever. BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3. Analysts at CacheLogic, an Internet-traffic analysis firm in Cambridge, England, report that BitTorrent traffic accounts for more than one-third of all data sent across the Internet. Cohen showed his code to the world at a hacker conference in 2002, as a free, open source project aimed at geeks who need a cheap way to swap Linux software online. But the real audience turns out to be TV and movie fanatics. It takes hours to download a ripped episode of Alias or Monk off Kazaa, but BitTorrent can do it in minutes. As a result, more than 20 million people have downloaded the BitTorrent application. If any one of them misses their favorite TV show, no worries. Surely someone has posted it as a "torrent." As for movies, if you can find it at Blockbuster, you can probably find it online somewhere - and use BitTorrent to suck it down.

With so much illegal traffic, it's no surprise that a clampdown has started: In November, the Motion Picture Association of America began suing downloaders of movies, in order to, as the MPAA's antipiracy chief John Malcolm put it, "avoid the fate of the music industry."

For Cohen, it's all a little surreal. He gets up in the morning, helps his wife feed their children, and then sits down at his cord-and-computer-choked desk to watch his PayPal account fill up with donations from grateful BitTorrent users - enough to support his family. Then he goes online to see how many more people have downloaded the program: At this rate, it'll be 40 million by 2006.

"I can't even imagine a crowd that big. I try not to think about it," he admits.

So he does what he always does. He narrows his focus to zoom in on the next thorny problem, the next interesting technical challenge. Like our game of Amazons.

He lays down another piece: "I think I've won now."

Like many geeks in the '90s, Cohen coded for a parade of dotcoms that went bust without a product ever seeing daylight. He decided his next project would be something he wrote for himself in his own way, and gave away free. "You get so tired of having your work die," he says. "I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."

Cohen was always interested in file-sharing. His last job was with MojoNation, a project based in Mountain View, California, that tried to create a "distributed data haven." A MojoNation user who wanted to keep a file safe from prying eyes could break it into chunks, encrypt the pieces, and store them on the millions of computers belonging to people who, theoretically, would be running the software worldwide. Too complicated for easy use, it expired like the other startups Cohen was part of. But it gave him an idea: Breaking a big file into tiny pieces might be a terrific way to swap it online.

The problem with P2P file-sharing networks like Kazaa, he reasoned, is that uploading and downloading do not happen at equal speeds. Broadband providers allow their users to download at superfast rates, but let them upload only very slowly, creating a bottleneck: If two peers try to swap a compressed copy of Meet the Fokkers - say, 700 megs - the recipient will receive at a speedy 1.5 megs a second, but the sender will be uploading at maybe one-tenth of that rate. Thus, one-to-one swapping online is inherently inefficient. It's fine for MP3s but doesn't work for huge files.

Cohen realized that chopping up a file and handing out the pieces to several uploaders would really speed things up. He sketched out a protocol: To download that copy of Meet the Fokkers, a user's computer sniffs around for others online who have pieces of the movie. Then it downloads a chunk from several of them simultaneously. Many hands make light work, so the file arrives dozens of times faster than normal.

Paradoxically, BitTorrent's architecture means that the more popular the file is the faster it downloads - because more people are pitching in. Better yet, it's a virtuous cycle. Users download and share at the same time; as soon as someone receives even a single piece of Fokkers, his computer immediately begins offering it to others. The more files you're willing to share, the faster any individual torrent downloads to your computer. This prevents people from leeching, a classic P2P problem in which too many people download files and refuse to upload, creating a drain on the system. "Give and ye shall receive" became Cohen's motto, which he printed on T-shirts and sold to supporters.

USA Today advertisment looks good for starter. I guess I will be checking gay publications for Q ads from here on. Hopefully, the web address will be corrected in ads in other publications.