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Thanks for your honesty. Yet, the questions you are seeking/asking of the board can only be answered by the Company or it's reps. I guess it was just the redundancy of it all (Float,Audit,Carriers?When,where,now). Sorry about the Bigtips thing, that was childish and I will use positive reinforcement types of name references now. glty
Subscribership, advertisement, and carriers, oh my !! This is what the key ingredient is and they will kick it up a notch! ^v^ BAM ^v^. Tasty, tasty, tasty! I'll take RCN and TW and if they keep doing what they are doing, I'm positive more will follow. It only makes sense. glta
seren, or should we call you BigTips? Relax, When the audit is done and they tell us what the float is, that is when you will find out. They are not going to e-mail you that info....especially if you demand it. It's "shot of Tequilla time" for "Q television Network" and "Time Warner"
They will let you know when it is time. The last thing they want from investors is demands. When they wnat you to know, they will let you in on it. Until then drink a beer or eat some mexican food. That's what I'm talking about ! Just relax and things will fall into place. If you act like a kid in a candy store, guess what type of a response you'll get ?
exactly.
More and more recognition soon I'm sure. Could we get that Comcast deal soon too ? Next couple months will be tasty!
Don't you work for NITE ? Just Curious. You don't have to tell me, not that you would anyway.
Maverick, don't you work for NITE ?
KillBid, Payroll up and stock is down. Hmmm...How does that work. Should be an interesting next couple of months. Over 70 Employees and counting. Something huge is happening. GLTY
Killbid, This guy (Robert Laughlin) also participated in "Rock the Runway".
He and Honey Labrador have worked together before to I believe in "Queer eye" on Bravo
network.http://www.friendster.com/useropen.php?uid=781483
Robert Laughlin lived in Oregon at one time or another ?
I will have to ask around to see if anyone is familiar with him. He will be a host with Honey Labrador on Xcess/Access for Q television Network. Thanks Killbid for the snippett. 4real
In other words, quit blowing smoke out your A double S. When flairpotential says that bashers spew lies, I would like to add that they also can suck the fat off a chicken. Talent ? Nope just what those people in the cellars do.
I viewed this on zoobrd...thanks to: Supermanseesall
http://www.rallymonkey.com/video/kenindex.swf
- GLTA this week and from this point on.
P.S. had to laugh at the monkey.
No more dolphins? LOL . . . No more BigTips.
Tradewell, your memory is alot F'n better than mine. Next week will be exciting hopefully.
Fri / 15 Jul 2005 Logo makes the gays look as boring as breeders
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When Brian Graden told us in June that his gay network Logo wouldn't be a sex-upped gay channel, we knew we wouldn't be tuning in that often.
So we guzzled down the Kool-Aid from Slate's Dana Stevens when she offered up, you know, one of those serious reviews of the network that you'd be unable to find here (and saving us from having to watch).
After a week and a half of serious Logo viewing, the dirtiest single moment I've witnessed so far was pretty mild indeed. It occurred on the travel show Round Trip Ticket, when the perky blond host gave the name of an Amsterdam hotel designed specifically for gay men interested in bondage, then asked naughtily, "How do you say 'ouch' in Dutch?" Logo is so wholesome, so middle-of-the-road, it's practically apple-cheeked.
And when Plum TV looks scandalous next to your supposedly cheeky network, you know you've got programming problems. Is Nielsen even monitoring this paint drying channel?
Excuse Sput, he's been on the dumper all day.
Skunks, you crack me up! still laughing. ;)
So what was the move up created for today? ^mm^'s must know something? Or are we finally buying this thing up to a penny with the "Special" investors ? :)
LOL Duke. eom ^v^
Shortly the A/H bangs the gong.
It's good to see it tick up today, 4 real. ^v^
It will be interesting when we hear about pride....Maybe they in conglomeration with Qtv have already been lining something up with outgames. All speculation ofcourse. Narrow minded can lead to being blinded.
Exposure, revenue, broadcasting, and opening eyes to new subscribership is where it's at Junk. See the whole picture including the frame.
NATIONAL NEWS
Now playing: Gay Games vs. Out Games
Are two games better than one?
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Friday, July 15, 2005
A breakaway organization promoting an international gay and lesbian sports competition in Montreal in July 2006 called Out Games has registered more athletes and teams than its rival Gay Games event, which is set to take place in Chicago two weeks earlier. But supporters of both events say it’s too soon to determine which one will draw the most participants and spectators as both sides wage an aggressive campaign to sign up paid registrants.
The two sides are pushing their campaigns through Web sites published in several languages. Elected officials and business leaders in both cities have joined the gay organizers to help promote the two events in an unprecedented effort to lure millions of gay tourist dollars to their hometowns.
At first, many gay sports enthusiasts predicted the two competing events would lead to a financial disaster for both and would dilute and split apart what had become a unified quadrennial gay event. Now some are wondering whether the competition has triggered an unprecedented professionalism and such an overwhelming desire to come out ahead of the other that both events might turn out better than past Gay Games — both in attendance and the bottom line.
Out Games has registered 5,600 participants, including at least 1,500 Americans. Gay Games has about 3,000 participants for the Chicago events. Both sides said the participants who signed up come from more than 20 countries, with most expected to come from North America. Each side predicts at least 12,000 participants will attend their respective events.
The two sides are also competing to line up gay choruses and bands from Europe and North America. In recent years, the Gay Games evolved into a cultural festival as well as an athletic event, with extravaganza performances by choruses, bands, and top-name entertainers at opening and closing events.
The San Francisco-based Federation of Gay Games was formed by the late gay Olympic athlete Tom Waddell in the 1980s. Waddell almost single-handedly put together the first Gay Games competition in San Francisco in 1982 following a legal ruling initiated by the International Olympics Committee that forced him to drop the name “Gay Olympics.”
The gay international sporting competition continued every four years since under the Gay Games title. The founding event in 1982 drew 1,350 gay and lesbian athletes mostly from North American and Europe, according to Roger Brigham, communications director for the Federation of Gay Games. The number of participants jumped to 12,500 in New York City in 1994, to a record 13,000 in Amsterdam in 1998 and dropped back to 11,000 in Sidney in 2002, Brigham said.
Shortly before the Sidney games were held, the FGG named Montreal the winner in a competition among gay sporting associations to sponsor the 2006 Gay Games. A short time later, the Montreal organizing committee, Montreal 2006, says it lined up generous sponsors from some of Canada’s largest corporations and persuaded the governments of Montreal, Quebec, and the national Canadian government to sign on as “partners” to the event and to kick in $1 million each to help finance the games.
The committee called those developments historic, saying Canada’s entire governmental establishment had endorsed and agreed to help subsidize an international gay sporting event.
What happened next takes on an entirely different perspective and interpretation among the Gay Games and Out Games leaders.
The Gay Games in Sidney, while hailed as a highly successful sports event, turned into a financial disaster, with millions of dollars in debt and gay and gay-friendly vendors left with unpaid bills. Coming on the heels of similar financial problems with the games in Amsterdam and New York, the FGG pushed through a series of rules changes that required the Montreal committee to turn over financial control of the event to the FGG. Up until that time, the committees for the host cities had full financial control over the events.
Among other things, the FGG wanted Montreal to scale back its initial budget from 24,000 participants to 12,000, saying a 24,000 turnout appeared unrealistic and could lead to financial problems similar to Sidney’s. FGG officials also requested that Montreal not link its sporting events to a planned international gay rights conference and to Montreal’s annual Gay Pride event known as Diversité. In addition, the FGG objected to the Montreal committee’s plans to link the Game Games to circuit parties.
“This just came out of the blue after we put together a detailed and what we thought highly successful business plan,” said Mark Tewksbury, an Olympic athlete and one of the Canadians organizing the Montreal Games.
Tewksbury and other leaders of Montreal 2006 called the FGG rule changes unfair. They point out that nearly all of Montreal’s plans for the 2006 Gay Games had been submitted to the FGG as part of Montreal’s bid for the games. No one raised objections to any of these proposals at that time, Tewksbury said.
Brigham, the communications director for FGG, said the organization’s international governing body, which includes representatives from nations in Europe and North America, approved the rules changes after assessing the financial problems encountered by Gay Games committees in New York, Amsterdam, and Sidney.
“The income projections have always been overblown,” he said. “We are concerned about hurting local gay businesses,” he said, noting that gay-owned businesses that have provided services to help put on the games often have been stiffed when the committees run out of money.
Brigham said FGG officials also decided — based on what he said was consultation with gay sporting teams in North America and abroad — that the Gay Games should stick to its original role as a sports event, with some performing arts and cultural activities like gay chorus and band performances. Linking the games with other events such as circuit parties, political conferences, and Pride events — as proposed by Montreal — would not be consistent with the Gay Games and its “mission” to promote the gay sports movement, Brigham said.
Montreal organizers announced that a new entity – the Gay & Lesbian International Sports Association — and would take bids for Out Gays II in 2010. In March 2004, the FGG named Chicago as the host city for the “official” 2006 Gay Games.
Rachel Corbet, executive director of Montreal 2006, said, “It is hard for a lot of GLBT people to come to the U.S.” U.S. immigration policies ban people with HIV from entering the country unless they get a special waiver. She also points to hostility toward the U.S. war in Iraq and to President Bush in general by many Europeans. With Canada’s decision this year to legalize same-sex marriage and Montreal’s reputation as North America’s most gay-friendly city, Corpet said Montreal is far more likely to attract far participants from countries outside of North America.
Boyer notes that the U.S. routinely waives its immigration restricts for people with HIV for special events like the Gay Games. Boyer said another draw for Chicago is the decision by newly formed gay cable television network QTV to provide live television coverage of the Gay Games for saturation coverage. QTV is waiving its fee for the game by unscrambling its channel to allow any cable TV subscriber to watch the games if their local cable company carries the QTV network, Boyer said.
“I’m not happy with the way this has happened,” Tewksbury said. “But it takes two for this to happen. It wasn’t just one-sided. Now each side has to do its best.”
NEW YORK BLADE
I say we should be at least .04 !
Last 10 minutes should be interesting. You know they are sitting on some orders ? GLTA
Seriously, Some kids should not talk with the pacifier stuck in the mouth. oraFupers, go back to school, my dog types better than that. If your going to bash, at least portray yourself as someone with an ounce of intelligence. You and the scare crow have one thing in common. glty ;) ^v^
* It makes for one hell of a Chuckle though ! What a goof !
"No matter what you like to do in between the sheets at night, your dog still needs a flea collar, your carpet needs shampooing (preferably with a Robo-Maid), and nothing personal, but your bathroom could probably use scenting with a mail-order Ionic Breeze from Sharper Image."
* Laughed out loud at that bit of info. Too funny !!
Q television gets a mention too.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2122787/
The above is the link to that article
I Want My Gay TV article:
Logo targets a new niche market: the homosexual mainstream.
By Dana Stevens
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 2:44 PM PT
Logo, the new Viacom cable venture that launched in late June in about 13 million homes nationwide, isn't the first gay cable channel ever, but it's the first one to appear as part of the basic cable lineup (the other gay-themed channel, the Q Network, is a premium digital satellite channel with a relatively limited subscription base, while Here! is a video on-demand service for the gay market).
Scott Thomson: the face of gay TV?
With the advent of Logo, gays take another step toward being sought out not only as the subject matter, but as the consumer base for mass entertainment—just another niche demographic, as African-Americans are for BET and UPN, or jocks for the Outdoor Life Network. Because of its greater market reach (not to mention sponsorship by companies like Miller Lite, Motorola, and Orbitz), Logo represents a new kind of innovation—and, to groups made uncomfortable by the presence of "alternative lifestyles" on TV, a new kind of threat.
Days before the June 30 launch of Logo, a group called the Concerned Women for America posted a press release calling the network "an assault on our children's innocence," and the Traditional Values Coalition has lobbied to boycott all Logo's advertisers, saying that the channel would offer little more than "moral anarchy for a very seriously dysfunctional lifestyle."
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If only. After a week and a half of serious Logo viewing, the dirtiest single moment I've witnessed so far was pretty mild indeed. It occurred on the travel show Round Trip Ticket, when the perky blond host gave the name of an Amsterdam hotel designed specifically for gay men interested in bondage, then asked naughtily, "How do you say 'ouch' in Dutch?" Logo is so wholesome, so middle-of-the-road, it's practically apple-cheeked. The new network's president, Brian Graden, has made a point of specifying that the channel will steer clear of highly sexualized content: "When you tell a story about gay rodeo or gay surfers, it's not a story about sex nor does it need to be," he told the New York Times last month.
That depends on which cowboys and surfers you talk to, I guess. But Logo's main problem may be not that it ghettoizes itself with overly sexy programming that offends audiences and advertisers, but that, on the contrary, it tries to please so broad and diverse an audience (from bull dykes and leather daddies to middle-class gay families and curious straights) that it never emerges with a voice of its own. So far, the network's slate seems to consist largely of earnest gay-themed movies like The Brandon Teena Story (a documentary about the real-life murder case on which Boys Don't Cry was based), Heavenly Creatures, and The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, in which Glenn Close plays a lesbian colonel who sued the military after being discharged for her sexual orientation.
Logo has acquired the rights to over 200 feature films, as well as documentaries and series imported from other networks. The Evolution Will Be Televised, an original documentary that chronicled the gay-rights movement since Stonewall, kicked off the network's launch in late June. A documentary debuting this Saturday, Ruthie and Connie, will tell the story of a Jewish lesbian couple, both grandmothers, who lived together for years as "roommates" before finally daring to come out to their friends and family.
My favorite show on Logo so far is, without question, First Comes Love, an adaptation of a Canadian reality show titled My Fabulous Gay Wedding in which a team of event planners, led by Kids in the Hall alumnus Scott Thompson, puts together dream marriage ceremonies for gay couples. Though the show is never overtly political in tone, even a casual viewing reveals how wide a gap still separates gay commitments from straight ones, and how charged the topic of homosexual marriage remains. In a recent episode involving the nuptials of two divorced lesbians, the obstacles that still loomed on the eve of wedding day were of a different order than those on a straight-themed wedding show like, say, Bridezillas. Rather than fretting about the flower arrangements or the tulle bags of Jordan almonds, one of the brides was struggling with the question of whether her own children would be allowed to attend the ceremony by her disapproving ex-husband (who the host referred to as "Captain Custody"). In the end, the kids did attend, but their faces were blurred out at their father's insistence. In this week's episode, two men who'd been living together for seven years finally had the opportunity to make it legal. As Rob and Greg bawled their way through their wedding vows while dressed in matching Scottish kilts, it was hard to imagine even Anita Bryant not getting a little choked up.
If there's one element of Logo's programming that will convince the remaining queasy homophobes out there that gay people are just as boring as the rest of us, it's the commercials. No matter what you like to do in between the sheets at night, your dog still needs a flea collar, your carpet needs shampooing (preferably with a Robo-Maid), and nothing personal, but your bathroom could probably use scenting with a mail-order Ionic Breeze from Sharper Image. The viewers targeted by Logo's advertisers (like most of the lesbians and gays portrayed in the network's programming) are neither the gorgeous misfits of Queer as Folk or The L Word, nor the mainstream minstrels of Will & Grace. They're just regular schlubs who want to come home, flip on the tube, and space out for a while to images that reflect back something of their own lives. Can't gays be couch potatoes, too?
Dana Stevens is Slate's television critic. Write her at surfergirl@thehighsign.net.
Photograph of Scott Thompson by Trish Lease/Getty Images.
Skunks, why is he called "Hot Gay Joe?" Have they mentioned this at all? Just curious
First time I have seen him post something like he/she did. I have not seen them post before. It is a board I do not post on/nor would I. I had not catched them posting before. I actually visit that board to see when a specific basher is on because after they have posted the next day the pps has gone up. I have not seen this particular poster for a while, I thought they might pop up out of the toilet today? Thanks rpudd for the response and "Look Out" confirmation.
Ofcourse it would be my luck if that particular person were to post and the PPS went down for the first time. I sense something is brewing however. This does not make me a Jedi though. LOL
By: derivativedallas
13 Jul 2005, 07:32 PM EDT
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Thursday and friday will be the set-up days b4 the actual "rocket" next week..I know I said that this week was supposed to be the week for the actual 'move', but now I think Frank is waiting for the new assesed 'days to cover' arrangement to come out after this expiration on Friday. If the arrangement indicates a smaller time frame for the shorts to cover, then that is a tell-all signal that the pps will rocket (less time for shorts to cover-inciting panic, and especially after a SHO-LIST announcement)..Frank will go over AUdit fig's on tuesday to reveal actual share-count..Once the mm's and public realize that there is a smaller o/s figure-the pps. will rise (my guess 200%)..However, Frank will give the mkt only a couple of days to digest that info..and on Thursday he will announce a move to the Otcbb and issue a SHO-LIST announcement-that will propell the pps. another 500% form the previous 200% advance..Then on next Monday-he'll announce the first carrier, and Tuesday the second carrier..both announcements will propel pps. 1500%..POTENTIALLY TAKING THE PPS TO .15-.24...IMO
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Does anyone know this poster ? If so, can you tell him that I have a working pair of ruby slippers. I mean I really want to see QBID do some "UP TICKING" but this guy has a Gargantious Crytsal set of ballz. - 4real
"I'm ready to throw it all away, the house, a successful career, wife, dogs, race cars, all of it to plant my ass in a chair 24/7 and munch on Frito's."
*You say Frito's, I say Cheeto's.
Onto a new topic please. It's like beating a dead horse.
Speaking of bed sores. I sleep standing up.
ecnc, I'll post what I see when I get it too. I'm sure it will be good from what little I have seen and what a ton I have heard. I have a request in for Direct and Comcast...If one of them gets it they are "In the House". Until then, I will look forward to the updates and live vicariously through Skunks.
Back to work. Just checking in to see who is blowing hot air. Looks like we have enough in here to start another Tropical Hurricane. glta - you know who you are.
Sputnik, are you 10 yrs. old? You spend way too much time worrying about Skunks. It's good that your are paying CLOSE attention though. Take it all in.
I beg to differ.
Tell me ! This is crazy behavior and it makes you wonder? I like it when the cellar dwellars arrive. It is a good sign Skunk$. :)