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The Gay Games seems to be the linch-pin in all of this. From the memo to shareholders Frank said
"This brings me back to the main point. The Gay Games will enable Q Television to be in 150 of the top markets in the United States, and it will be broadcast in 40 countries. It has enabled Q Television to make long term commitments to the countries that are carrying the Gay Games, and help us to negotiate the cable operator contracts. As I reflect further, I believe that Q Television will be profitable by the end of the 2nd quarter of 2006."
Notice that it says "... the main point. The Gay Games WILL ENABLE Q Television to be in 150 of the top markets...." The Gay Games is Frank's ace in the hole. These carriers know that the audience will be huge for the games and they want a piece of that pie. Evidence of that is "... and help us to negotiate the cable operator contracts."
Oh well, just wanted to chime in on this very good day.
It just occurred to me... the "bible belt" that Cox serves may well have a lot closet GLBT's. Wouldn't it be something if in these so-called "bible belt" areas Q got large numbers of subs? You wouldn't have to tell anyone, because it is in the privacy of your own home. This could be something for which they have waited a long time.
Lost of good things happening lately. I stopped reading the boards so much and life is much better. Who knows what the next month holds, but if F.O. holds to his pattern, he will make this a celebration of sorts in honor of the one year anniversary. They sure know how to party at Q.
NSS Boss, come on.... where are you? Tell me what you think about these mm's.
Thought today would be different. If they don't gap it up, looks like we are in for another shi**y day.
Coming on here to read the discussions is just a good way to get a "fix" on news or rumblings. Lately I can't stomach it though.
Gonna take your advice and just check the daily yahoo ticker and nothing more for a month. adios.
mb: that was a good post. eom
That is all hearsay. It is unsubstantiated and the product of no empirical evidence.
You show me some raw data that shows that the pps decline is DIRECTLY related to Olsen and I'll be impressed.
The argument fails when you consider the run up last year. Did Olsen do anything back then to make it go to .028? No. It ran up on speculation. Was he responsible for the gains? No.
So it stands to reason that if he is not going to be considered the cause of the run up, then he should not be considered the cause of the run down. That is unless you can show some hard cold facts. To date, I have seen no pattern or reason for the cycle of the pps.
Perhaps you should take a class in psychology. You are trying to infer SO many things from this. How do you know what he meant? You don't. I don't. He does. You will probably infer a lot from this message, such as
is he mad
is he being a smartass
is he serious
is he a basher
is he a pumper
You have no idea what I meant, or how I meant it without talking to me and seeing my face and mannerisms.
Junk, you can't be serious with that. eom
How can some of you say such mean-spirited things about a man that most, if not all, of you do not even know personally? Disgraceful. Says a lot about your own character.
And save the "what he is doing to the pps is disgraceful" comebacks. It is a bogus argument. There is no proof that he has anything to do with the pps.
A review is an opinion. Everyone has an opinion. Personally, I don't believe that IMDB "review". Remember people, this is the internet and people can post false or self-serving info out there. Remember a while back when there was an article posted on here that made Q out to be pathetic in comparison to LOGO? turned out someone found the real article and exposed someone as altering it. Someone even emailed that posting to the original author. Nice job.
PPS sucks as usual. For the life of me, I don't know what to think about this. At this point, I just want to get my money back out of this. No way am I selling my shares until it climbs again.
I had a dream the other night that it went up to 8 cents one day and everyone was so happy!!! haha I wish that would happen.
Hope you are right dingocub. Beginning to get worried.
Thanks for enlightening me DGILL. Gee, I thought that QBID was a mirror image of SPEA. You mean they changed their symbol too??? Thanks for telling me that.
My point is that a major event can do wonders for a company. Save your condescending attitude man.
gees, if I recall wasn't the Market Cap of SIRI at one time astronomical (in the $8-$10 billion range)? They really took off at one time. Markets can sometimes overvalue a company, so that could make Q take off on momentum one day. Just speculation on my part. Need to see some raw data from the audit before making my mind up.
MELI, every stock is different. They exist independent of one another. All anyone can do is make comparisons, but at the end of the day they are not exact.
I need to know the results of the audit before I will start thinking about the future ability of the pps to rise. I used to be a lot more optimistic in its ability to rise, but the mm's have beat it into submission over the last year. It has been tough to watch.
Take a look at what happened to SPEA.
http://www.shellstockreview.com/ssrSPEA.htm
One major event for them and it lit the fuse. That has propelled them into great new territory. It is my hope that this TW announcement will be the match and that soon Q will light the fuse.
Maybe it is a lot to them, but that is not that much in comparison to a "private investor" who might have put millions into this.
Foxy, you did it again... haha you are priceless. That is why you got slammed on the cbs board. You spread baseless rumors like they are facts. AND you unload your venom on Frank one day and then in the next breath you say "we're going to the moon$$$$!". I was happy when you made yourself a "lurker".
MB: I thought you had good points. The best one.... shareholders are not the only ones that will be benefiting from the success of this network. We all should benefit, but put it in perspective. An investor on this board who thinks they have put a lot of $$ into this will pale in comparison to a private investor who has hundreds of thousand, if not millions of $$ invested in this.
You didn't incite any fear in me. The whole thing is a big unknown, but I'm not worrying because the concept works for me. I still think that the stock pps is a joke, but that has more to do with the pink sheet market than anything.
yeah that's it jcr. I just submitted my request again. Do it about every 6 weeks. Just to keep them on their toes.
When you use the website to request the channel on your carrier, they have a nice referral form that pops up after you submit. You can have it sent to others you think might be interested. Q has filled in the wording to be attached to the email. cool.
mm = market maker. They are the ones that process the buys and sells. They control the price.
MB, I agree. Those have been the rules on this since I bought in Feb. 2004. I've just sat on it since then. Watched it grow phenomenally early, then do nothing since.
Whether these transactions are actual investors selling and buying, I don't know. Nobody knows. It could be the mm's trading back and forth. I am tired of thinking about it. Almost don't care about the pps anymore. Just watching the company grow now.
I mean no offense, but I've heard so many theories on why the pps is in the toilet. They're all speculation. Like I have said before, it's like Q doesn't even have stock. I can still pick up 6 shares for a penny. That is a joke.
If news like we had about TW can't move this thing, I am thinking that we will never move as long as we are on the pinks.
I am very happy with the progress. To quote a line from Tommy Boy "if you ain't growing, you're dying". Q is growing all the time.
It just makes my stomach turn to think about the stock pps being in the toilet.
Let's hope that this is a GIANT springboard for q and TW.
BusinessWire had this PR as 3:07 p.m. eastern time. Not much time for the market to react.
I don't think it will react much, my own increasing skepticism creeping in now.
Fantastic step for Q though. Business = GREAT progress. Stock = still under the mm's thumbs. They'll probably keep playing with us.
July 21, 2005--Q Television Network (OTCBB Other: QBID), the first 24/7 premium network for the gay and lesbian community, which will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on September 5th, will be available to Time Warner Cable customers in Maine at the end of July. Q Television has also signed an enhancement to its original agreement with Time Warner Cable to now provide Q Television subscribers with video on demand content.
NSS Boss, you think I am a basher now?? haha. You obviously don't know me. Do you not agree that buying 6 shares for a penny is a joke? It is not Q's fault, it is the mm's. If I could direct a post to them I would, but I can't.
At some point we have to be honest with ourselves about this dichotomy. There is the company and there is the stock. They, IMO, are completely separate and one has no bearing on the other. You can succeed when you lose and lose when you succeed.
Nice try in labelling me though. Adios.
The progress the company is making has NO impact on the pps. The pps is moved by the market makers (usually downward), and for the last 20 months that I have watched it, I can find no rhyme nor reason for the spikes.
We sit now at levels that I wish I had bought at initially, however my buying days with Q are done. Sitting on what I have and just watching now.
Companies have been put out of business by mm's before. They beat the hell out of the pps and never allow them to breathe. Q probably has enough going for it to succeed despite what is happening right now. That gives me some solace.
They have to get off the pink sheets. Until then, it's like they don't even have stock. I can buy 6 shares with a penny I just found on the ground. haha that is a joke.
Q is a sponsor at CTAM July 24-26.
http://www.ctam.com/conferences/summit/sponsors-menu.htm
Anyone read this? I like the way it sounds.
http://boifromtroy.com/archives/004204.php
Your arguments are so incredibly devoid of merit it is funny. Do you have any idea what "priority" means? I suggest you break out a dictionary and look it up. Then, you go out and start your own company. You'll quickly learn what is important and what is not as important.
A simple filing with the SOS office is not at the top of my worry list... and for a company that is working it's tail off to get national exposure, it's probably not at the top of theirs either.
I don't make excuses for anyone. You make up problems that don't deserve attention. End of story.
Q continues to be a topflight sponsor at major events around the country. That is great! It's like that episode of Seinfeld where George starts to just "grow" on that girl. You keep seeing Q around and they start to get stuck in your mind. After awhile people will start to hopefully say "I want to check this out".
This means nada. You think that when you file an extension for filing your taxes, and then at the very last moment send them in, that they get processed right away?? haha apparently you are not familiar with government agencies. They are slow. It doesn't surprise me at all that someone at the SOS has not seen the paperwork. It is probably sitting on someone's desk.
At any rate... why do you care so much about a filing? "because it reflects on management" will be your answer. So, you are telling me that we should all care if Q files a few pieces of paper a little late? Hell, nobody here would have even heard about this if it wasn't for you. You brought up this issue with the SOS and a/s awhile back and it was meaningless... your record speaks for itself.
Why not let Q do it's thing and quit worrying about them. If you are so dam worried, call them and apply for a job so you can cover their butt. Otherwise, quit bellyaching.
What a big volume day. What the hell is going on when that many shares trade and the pps goes down?
This is bullcrap. The company is doing great things, but these @#$!@ MM's are full of it. That is almost a billion shares today!!
http://www.rolandjoseph.tv/iwillidowedid.html
Torres wants Q in Hawaii.
http://www.quest-online.com/NewFiles/Quest_Newsroom_2.html
This is the article to which I was referring. It's been all over the place on the boards. Guess not this one....