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Q Television Network Announces Partnership with Zephyr Media Group
Wednesday October 13, 3:21 pm ET
Partnership Will Allow Q Television to Generate Revenues from Infomercials
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2004--Q Television Network (Pink Sheets: QBID - News) announced today that it has signed a contract with Zephyr Media Group as an advertising sales partner.
"Zephyr offers a new innovative way to advertise with Q," said Frank Olsen, President of Q Television. "We look forward to sharing in the highly lucrative revenues created through Zephyr's unique marketing and advertising ways."
Zephyr Media Group is the industry's preeminent direct marketing, advertising and media agency handling top quality products from well-known marketers. They will provide Q Television with media buys for short form direct response commercials, they will work closely with senior management to introduce Q Television to existing direct response clients and they will aggressively market Q Television and the gay demographic to other top tier direct marketers.
"We at Zephyr are extremely excited and enthusiastic about being a part of Q Television," said Dan Zifkin, President & Chief Executive Officer. "We offer our partners a unique way to gain revenues through our infomercials and other advertising."
About Zephyr Media Group:
Zephyr Media Group is privately owned, innovative, responsive advertising agency. Zephyr offers its clients a sterling reputation in the industry from advertising agencies and marketers to the stations and networks that run commercials for Zephyr clients.
About Q Television Network:
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Triangle Multi Media, Q 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 a day, 7 days a week. Providing distribution via satellite ensures availability of the network across the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Safe Harbor Statement
As a cautionary note to investors, certain matters discussed in this press release may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such matters involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the following: changes in economic conditions; general competitive factors; the television network's ability to execute its business model and strategic plans; and the risks described from time to time in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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Contact:
CWR & Partners, LLP
Ronnie Welch, 508-222-4802
Ronnie@cwrpartners.com
See ya later! Going to Australia with the family for 2 weeks!
Hopefully won't be around a computer much!!!
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FWIW...
25 years ago or so I was living in Seattle and was flipping channels one afternoon. I was suprised when I came across a channel playing music videos which I had never seen before.
A couple of hours later my roommate called up from work all excited and told me to go to "channel so & so" and was very surprised to hear I was already watching it as it had just started that day.
The channel was MTV . There was no advertising by the cable company before the launch-at least we hadn't seen any-it just showed up one day. We all know what happened there-it changed the music world forever. Video killed the radio star.</I>
Someday 25 years from now someone in San Francisco will be able to tell the same story about Q Television...and I'll be telling my grandkids that once upon a time I bought this stock for .0001.
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JC sounds good to me! eom
RCN / QTN UPDATE #2
I just got off the phone with someone interested in a business venture with me who just happens to live in Palm Springs and just happens to be in the TV industry. I had asked him in an email the other day if he was familiar with QTN. Just as I was going to hang up today he brought it up and said he had heard of a gay network starting up but that was it.
BUT more interestingly is when I brought up the recent delay in "airing" on RCN he knew exactly the problem. He asked me if they were trying to digitalize the signal (which as far as I know they are)and said it is has been an ongoing problem which is even affecting this station KBCR and is being worked on right now. I said I heard it may be fixed today and he agreed that sounded like what he had heard.
Nothing to exciting but thought I would pass it on...
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Most of you guys have no business investing in a start up company...It takes guts and patience...If I didn't know Frank Olsen had both I would have moved along years ago.
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SIDULSAYA THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS...
"Over the next 45 days Q Television Network will be rolling out its original programming which will be 20% live and 10% recorded."
Get it?
Is there any reason to air live programming while no one can see it?
They need to get on the air and have subscribers who can look forward to new programming coming on-maybe advertised in different venues.
Seems pretty straight forward to me.
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CT-HERE
It was a joke get it? I was making fun of some of the other posts disecting the latest update...
Geez.
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OK OK this is what's up...
"HIV AND SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY ONLY
We are very proud to announce that we have sponsors for any people who are housebound with AIDS. We are going to pay for their basic cable and provide the $7.95 per month subscription to Q Television Network at no charge."
QTN has decided that they have no subscribers for the channel so they will sign up users and then pay the bill for them. Notice it says 'we' not 'they' meaning QTN must be paying for this put of their pocket.
If this sounds stupid go back and read some of your posts...
you're cracking me up!
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You guys are hilarious...eom Aloha
seeking...
This business plan was made available to serious large investors in QBID several months ago if not longer. It is authentic...take it seriously and prosper.
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OK picture this...
Once again Frank Olsen has been pressured by his impatient shareholders to produce a PR ahead of it's time. This time he has chosen to throw the smallest carrier to the wolves...etc etc..
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ct_here
Just checking...I spend a lot of time monitoring QBID boards and often wonder what peoples agendas are. While I don't post a whole lot I do chime in if someone is totally out of hand and the night I posted here Froy was once again totally out of hand on RB and when I came over to the usually more sensible IHUB only to find him squawking over here it made me use some rather harsh language-my apologies. While I have him on ignore on RB everyone else on that thread was calling him an idiot and tying up the thread with multiple posts, hence my phrase "froy...people have been calling you an idiot non @$#@%#$@% stop. Get a grip. You are an idiot. JMO". I just took him off ignore to see that he has 2902 posts on QBID RB in 4 months...that's either a lot of DD or a lot of BS. I choose the latter.
For the most part I have quit posting any DD I come up with just because posters will either put a spin on it or call the phone numbers involved and totally hurt the effort more than help it. This has been a problem here for several years now and has killed more than one contract-like when Frank had 7-11 ready to distribute the Bingo cards for Bingo Television-remeber that?
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Quick question CThere if you don't mind...
How many shares did you finally pick up?
"I am a Newbie who has been reading this and other QBID boards for weeks now. I need some advice on the fastest way to pick up between 50K & 100K shares."
Just curious...you jumped on me a few nights ago and I just had a few minutes to peruse your posts.
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zandant
I agree, but I am the one who has had my posts deleted...go figure.
Will the one who deleted those posts please stand up? NOT
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No wonder afxm is not a happy guy...
Posted by: afxm
In reply to: None Date:4/12/2004</B> 3:32:29 PM
Post #of 16271
Thanks jamesplays, I added another 500k @.0048, tried to get 1m this morning @.0042 and chased it to .0045, saw it goto .0048, called my broker and said i will modify it one more time, LOL.
Feel lucky that i was able to get it before it broke 1/2 cent.
I like your strategy of selling half after it has doubled and letting the remaining half ride. I have used that strategy with AAC and it has paid off nicely for me.
GLTA,
afxm
afxm I ask you to point out what you are telking about and you avoid the it, then you say
"You know that i am telling the truth. but you had rather that not be stated on a public message board/
it is more to your advantage for people to shamelessly pump this stock with total disregard for the truth of what they are saying."
Get a grip...
I guess I cannot really say what I want because whoever the bozo is who is censoring me will do so again....
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afxm
I am one of the original investors in this business, I have done my homework. Punch in my profile and go back to the 4th message (mariner) I left here and then read it and weep...
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afxm
Please point it out. I have not found you posts to be to enlightening so far...
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Yes I do understand DEMO however a DEMO is a far cry from a FAKE. GET MY POINT-FROY's A FAKE NOT THE DEMO...EOM
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skunksyard
Do you think that maybe these guys were confused too? Most everyone who refers to this calls it QTV...
ct_here
I apologize if I have offended you here on this adult forum...life's a b$@$^ and froy is too! I will also apologize if this link turns out to be a hoax however I don't think it is.
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Gee I guess these guys are just playing a joke on us...
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ct
I doubt that is going to happen as I am a charter member here...but then again stranger things have happened..
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Q Television Will Offer Gay and Lesbian Programming
Q Television Network, headquartered in California, has announced it will launch a subscriber channel for the gay and lesbian community in July 2004. An industry soft launch for carriers and advertisers began June 1, 2004. The network is available for viewing on Intelsat America's 7, 129 degrees West, Channel 1. The network will broadcast 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Q Television will not be without competition. Q's annoucement comes just as MTV Networks announced it would soon be launching LOGO, a gay and lesbian cable network, in February, 2005.
In a pre-public move to preview a sample of its programming to cable and satellite industry professionals, as well as potential advertisers, Q Television Network will offer a compressed daily broadcast that includes featured programs.
Executive vice president Steven Grunberg said, "This is built by and for the gay community. Rather than a smattering of stereotyped gay characters offered because current market projections indicate it would be profitable, we offer a channel that will unite the gay and lesbian audience through a network that educates, entertains and informs - a network of real value."
Q Television president and chairman Frank Olsen, an entrepreneur with a significant background in broadcast, was instrumental in the launch of The Movie Channel prior to its acquisition by Showtime. A pioneer in the development of new radio broadcast formats throughout his 40-year career, Olsen helped create African American radio and started the first gay radio stations.
"Just as CNN had tremendous hurdles to overcome, Frank and Q Television Network have had an uphill battle in the launch of Q Television," said CFO Rene Schenk. "Q Television is positioned to successfully meet the demand that exists for a gay family channel."
Q Television Network will offer a combination of original and acquired programming, which includes sports, fashion, travel, health & fitness, talk shows, plays, documentaries and movies. Teams of producers and directors will also bring breaking stories of interest to the network's audience via access to bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Paris, Moscow, Jerusalem and Iraq.
A preview of original programming premiered in May at the National Cable & Telecommunication Association's annual industry conference and was also included in a successful five-hour sample broadcast on May 15, which aired on Cox Cable in Louisiana and Comcast in the Puget Sound Region. Included in that preview was I Will, I Do, We Did, an original Q Television documentary exploring gay and lesbian marriage in America that offers an inside glimpse of the challenges faced by this community. Independent films, such as An Intimate Friendship and Straightman, are other examples of what will be available on the network, as well as commercial fare such as Bette Midler's "Divine Madness" concert.
zandant...
I will agree on that, as I emailed him too...
He did say he would get back to us, he just didn't say when.
I hope he does shortly but I will not lose much faith if he doesn't...
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zandant and Tony...
Over the years I have learned that the CEO's who have plenty of time to answer the deluge of emails thay get immediatley are the ones you have to wonder about. I'm own my company and my 12 staff are lucky they get a reply back the same day, much less all the others including my friends. Let it ride.
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Ron2w
My 380k of GAAY that cost me $44k definitely put a damper on things and caused people like skeezits and simple to turn into bashers...OH and Willy too....
It was the 77,000,000 picked up last summer that did the deal!
Looking forward to the launch>>>>>finally!
Aloha!
This is from Nobull on CBS board regarding CT...
Rene and Gary headed to Connecticut 6/9/2004 5:03:02 PM
Posted By: Nobull101 Msg# 38788 of 38813
Time Warner corporate offices are in Stamford Connecticut...this is where the 10 year carriage aggreement was formed...Just FYI
Sounds good to me...Aloha
Finance 101
Some of us have been around for years and knowing things like this has kept us here....
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dirknot
I would assume that the first thing an institution would want to see is audited financials along with audited share count. I have a feeling we will be seeing those shortly. I was really hoping for a PR regarding that late today, it would have made for an interesting weekend...
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Good one Ron! LOL
Skunks...I thought you were getting paid to put that up there....geez what was I thinking. LOL
gargoyleman
You need to realize that "foxy" aka "RON####" poaches good info and posts it on many boards with no indication where it originated. So many people like yourself think he/she is BS'ing when it really came from a variety of sources. This is something you have to deal with down here in the dark deep pinksheet depths...
Good luck with your investing.
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Foxy...post your sources...
Good DD from our new PR Company...
Taken from RB
***READ AND RE-POST!!!***
BOARD!!! This is what DEVENEY did for them! Just think what DEVENEY will do for QBID!
I got this from the DEVENEY web site.
PLEASE RE-POST!!!
SS~
CASE STUDY
MARDIS GRAS COM
NOLA Live, New Orleans’ premier city Web site, was poised to launch www mardigras com,
a Web site featuring everything Mardi Gras; event schedules and parade routes, Mardi Gras
history and trivia, forums, games, merchandise, and its main attraction—live cameras with
streaming video and 20-second updated photos of the celebration from hot spots around the city.
The goal was to bring visitors to the site to document an audience in order to sell future
advertising for the site.
THE RESEARCH
The site needed to gain significant interest and awareness and differentiate itself from other
sites in order to generate revenue through advertising on the site in years to come.
The Internet Advertising Bureau reported that Internet advertising revenue hit $1.92 billion
in 1998, the first time Internet advertising exceeded $1 billion within the same calendar year.
This offered the client a large opportunity to build a Web site that could generate revenue.
The bureau added that Internet advertising has not reached a plateau and is expected to
continue a sustained period of growth in the future.
We worked with the client to identify 16 distinct target metropolitan areas, based on Internet
usage trends, and identified specific audiences within the cities. Any visitor was a good visitor,
but research identified that the most desirable visitors were entertainment seekers and active
news readers/viewers, and that men aged 18 to 36 had a large share of this broad profile.
Because 75 percent of Internet users say that they get more of their news from traditional
outlets, and local television news and daily newspapers are Americans’ favorite news sources,
we also targeted media to gain interest and awareness among the target audience and drive
them to the site.
THE STRATEGY
We developed a comprehensive, national integrated marketing campaign, including media
relations and promotions, in 16 target markets, working closely with NOLA’s advertising and
marketing staff to ensure a unified effort. We first created exhaustive, targeted media lists and
coordinated national media relations to garner extensive coverage, and then created releases
targeted to specific audiences identified as important, such as African-Americans and health
and business reporters. We also developed tailored angles for travel writers and travel agents
as well as the hotel and travel industry. We then developed and executed promotions that
maximized available technology while reaching our target audiences in the 16 markets nationwide.
Using e-cards and Internet technology, we sent targeted information to hundreds of online and
Internet reporters, as well as identified corporate partners and colleagues.
We also brought together a nationwide host of Internet cafés in a contest to win a complete
Mardi Gras party for the patrons of the winning café. These unique approaches, coupled with
Web casts of some of the season’s most spectacular Mardi Gras events, generated interest,
awareness and, most importantly, visitors to the site.
THE RESULTS
During the brief, one-month campaign, 2.2 million readers read about the Web site in outlets
including Newsday (one of the top ten most widely read papers in the country), The Orlando
Sentinel, The Baltimore Sun, The Courier-New and El Nuevo Dia, the newspaper of Puerto Rico.
Seven million viewers across the country saw mardigras.com featured on ABC World News
This Morning, ABC World News Now, the regional ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates and Satellite
DirecTV station ZDTV. In addition, mardigras.com received radio coverage in 100 percent of
the target markets and global coverage via a link from www playboy com, one of the Web’s
most highly accessed sites. The campaign exceeded the goal of driving 5 million visitors to
the site and attracting advertisers for Mardi Gras 2000. Our campaign was so successful in
creating buzz among potential advertisers that no more intense public relations services were
needed for subsequent carnival seasons following the launch.
Mardigras com received more than 28 million page views during the brief campaign, which
exceeded the goal by 23 million page views or 560 percent (cost-per-page view of .0008 cents.)
On Mardi Gras day alone, the site recorded 8.1 million page views, and 25 million the week of
Mardi Gras. The amount of traffic to the Web site caused the server to overload. Page views
recorded in 1999 by mardigras com and its sister site NOLA com totaled more than 107 million.
The cyber café promotion was extremely successful, with 100 percent of the cafés asked
participating. The contest resulted in users logging in up until the final minutes when a café
in North Carolina was named the winner. Media promotions were highly successful—our media
results attest to that. We also received positive feedback on the postcards we sent publicizing
the events and the events themselves. Media coverage was valued at more than $7 million,
compared to fees of $24,000 (or a 292:1 return ratio) on the client’s marketing investment.
Advertising revenue on mardigras com for 2000 was conservatively projected at $300,000,
well-exceeding client expectations.
foxy...FYI
Islandboyz and Joeqbid are one and the same...ME.
and the post I posted was copied from another board...as I stated here when I first posted it. I forgot to add it to the post on RB.
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foxy...FYI
Islandboyz and Joeqbid are one and the same...ME.
and the post I posted was copied from another board...
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quentin Sign me up!...LOL eom