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I stopped smoking 3 years ago. I am not touching smoke. As we all know smoke is no goood for you. I will not be tempted by smoke. I just laugh at smoke. LOL
lobogotti
I got a response on that article on scenemag.net. Below is the email I received.
In a message dated 3/17/2005 1:33:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jcradio@yahoo.com writes:
I am curious as to when the interview with Q television took place. I tried doing a search on the website.
Hi Joe,
The interview took place in January if memory serves.
Thanks!
Mark
Mark A. Lund
Publisher
SCENE Magazine
5 Old English Road
Worcester, MA 01609
Tel: 508-753-xxxx
Cell: 508-725-xxxx
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Email: SCENEPUBLISHER@xxxxxxxx.xxx
1-thunder
No not yet. I will let you all know if and when I do.
Christians, Jews Slam Jerusalem Gay Fest
Thursday, March 17, 2005
JERUSALEM — Warning of divine retribution and possible violent protest, evangelical Christians and rabbis from the United States have joined forces with ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel to fight plans to hold an international gay festival in Jerusalem this summer.
The WorldPride Parade (search), last held in Rome in 2000, is a 10-day event including street parties, workshops and a gay film festival. Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor, Uri Lupolianski, says he is powerless to interfere, as public events are licensed by the police, not City Hall.
At a news conference Wednesday, California pastor Leo Giovinetti (search) said hosting the 10-day World Pride event could bring divine retribution upon Jerusalem, citing the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorra as a precedent.
Ultra-Orthodox Israeli lawmaker Nissim Zeev (search) hinted at more earthly troubles. "With demonstrations we never know how they end up," he said. "Residents here are enraged. Everything should be done to stop this (event) and not cause people to break the law."
Lupolianski also sees a potential threat to public order in a city where religious feelings run high. His office warned in a statement that the parade "might instigate clashes."
In the past, Israeli gays have held small marches in Jerusalem that have passed relatively peacefully, with a few shouted insults from onlookers and minor acts of vandalism.
This time the plan is for a major international happening; the Rome event attracted tens of thousands of participants.
Organizers of the festival, under the theme "Love Without Borders" say they want to promote coexistence.
"The holiness of Jerusalem does not come from manipulating religion to keep people away," said Hagai El-Ad, the director of Open House, the Jerusalem group that has organized local gay parades in the city. "Jerusalem's holiness comes from it being a city that can bring together all kinds of people."
Giovinetti, from San Diego, has a nationwide radio ministry in the United States that he says reaches millions. He is seeking a million signatures for a petition against the August festival, which he said debases the sanctity of Jerusalem.
All 11 lawmakers from Zeev's Shas party have pledged to sign the petition. Benny Eilon of the right-wing National Union says he has promises of support from another 30 members of the Israeli parliament, including Muslim cleric Abdulmalik Dehamshe.
Giovinetti said that as a devout Christian, he felt bound to join with observant Jews to fight an offense to their shared traditions.
"I haven't come because I have hate for the homosexuals, I've come because I have love for the Jews," he said. "I believe that this march has been brought upon our Holy Land and that we're defending ourselves, not the aggressors."
A majority of Jerusalem's more than 600,000 residents are either Orthodox Jews or Muslim or Christian Palestinians, traditional communities that oppose homosexuality.
New York Rabbi Yehuda Levin, representing the Rabbinical Alliance of America — a group of 700 Orthodox rabbis — said that throughout the world many traditional Jews are offended by the planned event.
"This is not a parade. A parade takes a few hours. This is a 10-day homosexual convention with many outdoor activities and a 10-day pornographic film festival," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150737,00.html
1-thunder-1
As far as I can tell. I am trying to fond more on it.
lobogotti
All I can find is what is says in the article.
At press time, a contract was signed to bring Q to the Pacific Northwest extending to the Canadian border.
I will check further.
lobogotti
The article is Pre-Dated!!!!!
Scene magazine Volume I/Issue 1 April 2005 www.scenemag.net
Happy St. Patty's Day
OT : Viacom May Split Into Two Companies
Wed Mar 16, 6:10 PM ET
By SETH SUTEL, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK - Frustrated with a languishing stock price, media conglomerate Viacom Inc. announced late Wednesday that it is considering a plan to split into two companies to allow investors to value its businesses separately.
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A breakup of the New York-based media company, whose properties include CBS, MTV, VH1 and the Paramount movie studio, would also solve the question of who would succeed Sumner Redstone as CEO. The company said it would provide more details on its plans in the second quarter.
Confirming a report on The Wall Street Journal's Web site, Viacom said late Wednesday it was exploring a plan that would split the company into two separate entities: One anchored by its fast-growing cable networks such as MTV, led by longtime MTV chief Tom Freston; and another built around the broadcast television businesses that would be run by CBS head Les Moonves.
Freston and Moonves have been contending for the top job at Viacom since last June, when chief operating officer Mel Karmazin left in a power struggle and triggered the two-way race.
Under the breakup plan being considered, the broadcast television company would also include Viacom's radio businesses, which remain profitable but have fallen out of favor with investors due to poor growth prospects and increasing competition from portable music players like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPods.
Viacom's stock has been languishing below $40 since April 2004 as investors remained frustrated that the high-growth businesses like MTV remained tied to slower-growth properties like radio, outdoor advertising and theme parks.
Viacom's shares jumped after news of the possible breakup hit the market, ending up $2.71 or 7.9 percent at $37 on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites). In after-hours trading the shares gained another $1.70, or 4.6 percent.
Last fall Viacom also separated itself from Blockbuster Inc., its video rental unit that had also fallen out of favor with investors due to heavy competition from cheap DVD sales from Wal-Mart Stores and DVD rent-by-mail services.
Redstone said in a statement that despite the company's efforts to drive its various businesses for the best possible returns, those businesses "have inherently different growth characteristics and investment attributes that appeal to different types of investors."
What's more, "it has also become clear that this important distinction is likely to continue to limit Viacom's ability to receive full value for its assets and its prospects in the investment community," Redstone said.
Earlier Wednesday, media analyst Jessica Reif Cohen of Merrill Lynch sent a report on Viacom to investors suggesting essentially what the company announced later in the day — that the company consider breaking itself up in order to allow the market to value its pieces separately.
"If the stock continues to languish below what we consider to be fair value, we believe Viacom should consider breaking up the company to unlock the underlying value of the company's assets," Reif Cohen wrote. Reif Cohen said in an interview later that she was surprised at the company's announcement. "I did not expect this," she said.
If the breakup goes through, it would mark the latest move by a media conglomerate to restructure itself and streamline under pressure from investors. Media investor John Malone has been paring down the complex holdings of his company Liberty Media Corp., splitting off its overseas businesses last year and announcing Tuesday that it would spin off its 50 percent stake in Discovery Communications Inc. to shareholders.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently moved its legal base to the United States and is absorbing Fox Entertainment Group Inc., its separately traded U.S. subsidiary. Time Warner Inc. has also trimmed down, selling off numerous businesses including Warner Music Group, which recently announced plans of its own to sell shares to the public.
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Did anyone notice?
In a post by firefight the article had the following line by Tom Zamora "At press time, a contract was signed to bring Q to the Pacific Northwest extending to the Canadian border. "
Has anyone commented on this? In my book that equals 123
Q Television
"In definition of the style, I envision us doing gay programming for gay people, the GLBT community. What you see on television right now is pretty much the straight view of what the gay lifestyle is," says Tom Zamora, vice president of marketing and advertising for Q Television (www.qtelevision.com), a cable/satellite network launched quietly in mid-2004. By year's end, Q was being shown in New York, Boston and San Francisco on RCN. At press time, a contract was signed to bring Q to the Pacific Northwest extending to the Canadian border.
At present, approximately 25 percent of Q's 24-hour-a-day programming is original. This includes the show Q on the Move. "We go to major cities around the country and around the world and show the gay scene in that city," says Zamora. "We talk to people in arts and education. We have another show called Internet Cafe with Q. It's live and broadcasts about two hours a day. We have live Internet feeds so people can e-mail and phone in questions. We plan to introduce Webcams, so they can actually be seen when they call in."
A huge push for Q will come in 2006 when they broadcast Gay Games VII from Chicago. The network will unscramble its signal during the Games to open viewership to all interested parties. To build momentum, the network will broadcast various sporting events-such as a gay aquatics championship and several softball games-over the next 18 months.
Q is subscription channel, currently priced at $7.95 a month.
Other programming will include documentaries produced by Firestone Communications.
"We've found that since we started, the interest in Hollywood has been just incredible," Zamora says. "There is a lot of pent-up energy that there hasn't been a real outlet for. The network is really gearing itself to be-it's kind of cliche-but a gay family network," he adds. "I don't want potential viewers or anyone else to think that we're going to be a smut station. We will follow the FCC guidelines that are covered by HBO and Showtime."
Frank Olsen, Q's president, says the network is here for "the gay, the lesbian, the bisexual, the transgendered and the curious."
Senate Votes to Allow Arctic Drilling
8 minutes ago
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush (news - web sites).
The Senate, by a 51-49 vote, rejected an attempt by Democrats and GOP moderates to remove a refuge drilling provision from next year's budget, preventing opponents from using a filibuster — a tactic that has blocked repeated past attempts to open the Alaska refuge to oil companies.
The action, assuming Congress agrees on a budget, clears the way for approving drilling in the refuge later this year, drilling supporters said.
The oil industry has sought for more than two decades to get access to what is believed to be billions of barrels of oil beneath the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the northern eastern corner of Alaska.
Environmentalists have fought such development and argued that despite improve environmental controls a web of pipelines and drilling platforms would harm calving caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds that use the coastal plain.
Bush has called tapping the reserve's oil a critical part of the nation's energy security and a way to reduce America's reliance on imported oil, which account for more than half of the 20 million barrels of crude use daily. The Alaska refuge could supply as much as 1 million barrels day at peak production, drilling supporters said.
"We won't see this oil for 10 years. It will have minimal impact," argued Sen. Maria Cantwell (news, bio, voting record), D-Wash., a co-sponsor of the amendment that would have stripped the arctic refuge provision from the budget document. It is "foolish to say oil development and a wildlife refuge can coexist," she said.
Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., argued that more oil would be saved if Congress enacted an energy policy focusing on conservation, more efficient cars and trucks and increased reliance on renewable fuels and expanded oil development in the deep-water Gulf where there are significant reserves.
"The fact is (drilling in ANWR) is going to be destructive," said Kerry
But drilling proponents argued that modern drilling technology can safeguard the refuge and still tap the likely — though not yet certain — 10.4 billion barrels of crude in the refuge.
"Some people say we ought to conserve more. They say we ought to conserve instead of producing this oil," said Sen. Pete Domenici (news, bio, voting record), R-N.M., "But we need to do everything. We have to conserve and produce where we can."
The vote Wednesday contrasted with the last time the Senate took up the ANWR drilling issue two years ago. Then, an attempt to include it in the budget was defeated. But drilling supporters gained strength last November when Republicans picked up three additional seats, all senators who favored drilling in the refuge.
econnelle
We've burned through 2-3 million
Won't it look better if you posted:
We've burned through 1-2-3 million
JMHO
florist805
LOL Remember to remove the thorns!!!!!
Top of the morning to you florist805
Can you smell the 123 roses? LOL
semperfi
we can't just go from 123 cities to nothing.
Don't you mean from NOTHING to 123???????
The GIANT always watched out for the LITTLE guy. Just an observation.
skunksyard
As you always say, "ONE BRICK AT A TIME".
Level 2
.0022 x .0023 3 X 2
skunksyard
That's great DD. Thanks for the info.
OFF TOPIC : Liberal Talk Radio Coming to SA
LAST UPDATE: 3/15/2005 8:33:54 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
The city's first ever FM talk radio station will also be the first to be programmed with progressive talk, officials of Clear Channel Communications announced today.
KRPT will sign on the air Thursday morning at 8AM on 92.5FM. The station is currently called KHTY and formats urban and hip hop music.
"This is going to be exciting," Clear Channel Vice President and Market Manager Tom Glade said. "Progressive Talk is one of the fastest growing formats in the country and we are thrilled to bring this innovative new programming to San Antonio."
While NewsRadio 1200 WOAI, a full service news, talk and sports station with a heavy commitment to local news and the San Antonio Spurs is by far the highest rated spoken word radio station in San Antonio, KRPT Operations Manager Nate Lundy pointed out that number two in the market is National Public Radio. A gaggle of other talk and news talk stations get much lower ratings.
"You have to remember that 44 percent of Bexar County voted for John Kerry last November," Lundy said. "These are people who are crying out for talk radio. This indicated to us that the San Antonio area is long overdue for a progressive talk station."
The first show aired on KRPT will be hosted by Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor who is best known for his wild TV show featuring the antics of transvestites, hookers, and lost loves.
"The radio show is not what people would stereotype from Springer's TV show," Lundy said. "He has a political background and he has the ability to discuss politics and pop culture while being entertaining at the same time."
Veteran local talker Ron Aaron has been signed to host a three hour show on Saturdays and Sundays, with a time to be determined, Lundy said.
Other personalities to appeal on KRPT will include Phil Hendrie and Lionel, both of whom have enjoyed success on WOAI, and Ed Schultz, a talk host Lundy describes as 'energetic and opinionated.'
Prominent activist Jesse Jackson's Sunday show "Keep Hope Alive With the Rev. Jesse Jackson" will also air on KRPT.
While progressive talk is new to San Antonio, it is also relatively new to Clear Channel. The San Antonio based company boasts a stable of established syndicated talkers including Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, and Glenn Beck. KRPT will be the 24th progressive talk station introduced by Clear Channel, which is the nation's largest operator of radio stations, and it will be the fourth to host Springer's new radio program.
Lundy pointed out that progressive talk has found a solid niche. The progressive talk radio station in Portland Oregon ranked first among the key 25-54 year old age group in the most recent ratings.
Lundy says placing the station on FM will also add to its attractiveness.
"I think it'll be fun," he said. "I think the audience is definitely there for this kind of radio station in San Antonio."
KHTY's sister station KSJL-AM 810 will continue to offer urban adult contemporary hits and Tom Joyner on weekday mornings.
http://woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=50375E71-AE3A-484C-9B92-6BA6023EA88D
skunksyard
Relax. I think you are reading to much into froy's post.
IMHO
Watching L2
MM ETRD (GVRC) just went from .0024 on the ask to .0027
.0023 x .0024 8 x 1
skunksyard
I thought I saw it here. Thanks.
Good Night all
semperfi
MSNBC aired that program that is why Q pulled theirs. Maybe skunksyard can verify. I though I saw someone post the link at the time here on IHUB.
Lolitchka
LOL Yes GREED will get you everytime. I ran like a thief!!!
QBID is next. I just feel it. Been too long, Too many BIG names have latched onto QBID. They would not risk their reputations on Q is there was nothing. In this business your reputation is everything.
Lolitchka
ADSX what a great ride that was. In at .52 out at 2.00 Within a weeks time if I remember correctly.
skunksyard
LOL The ole One, Two
tradwell
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zandant
This was posted yesterday. I do not remember who posted it, sorry.
Pridevision trouble.....the wife, of course:
By CAMPBELL CLARK
Friday, March 11, 2005 Updated at 1:25 AM EST
From Friday's Globe and Mail
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Ottawa — The head of PrideVision TV, Canada's gay-television channel, is caught in a bitter divorce battle with his ex-wife that could cost him control of the network.
Twelve years ago, Bill Craig was a onetime CRTC staffer turned entrepreneur who lived with his wife and two children. Now, after setting up successful businesses in Bermuda, and a failed webcaster in Canada, he's in a seven-year-long same-sex relationship and is trying to rebuild the gay-TV channel he runs.
But this week, a $1.4-million debt owed to his ex-wife, Sally Craig, as part of their divorce settlement caught up with him. An Ontario Superior Court judge ordered a receiver be appointed over his income and his assets — which consist mostly of his shares in PrideVision.
“This is classic War of the Roses stuff,” Mr. Craig said in a telephone interview in Toronto, likening the court battle to the 1989 movie in which a couple played by actors Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner engage in a bitter postdivorce fight over their house that ends up killing them both.
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Mr. Craig and his ex-wife Sally, married for 19 years, separated in 1993.
Although he now makes $120,000 a year from a numbered company, Madam Justice Nancy Backhouse expressed skepticism that Sally Craig would be able to collect the money she is owed out of that income, paid through a numbered company.
She ordered a receiver to take control of Mr. Craig's income and assets, which he listed as a 2000 Jeep, the potential proceeds from a lawsuit filed in Bermuda, and his 24-per-cent controlling stake in PrideVision.
Mr. Craig said that if a receiver moves to sell his shares, they won't be worth much now. And the sale would also prompt the resignation of the executive leading the channel's turnaround plan — namely, him.
“They're welcome to liquidate it [the controlling stake.] At the moment it's losing money,” Mr. Craig said in an interview. “It'd be kind of a dumb thing to do.”
“The alternative is to leave it in place, and to let it come to fruition, and let it evolve into an enterprise that can support my wife's needs.”
Mr. Craig said that his backers would remain in control of the company if his shares are sold, because a shareholders agreement guarantees them approval of a new shareholder.
But the uncertainty may be coming at exactly the wrong time. Mr. Craig's plans include a relaunch of the station lower down the dial as soon as next month, which could quickly boost its value.
Backed by a group of investors, Mr. Craig stepped in as a so-called white knight last year to buy money-losing PrideVision for $1.4-million, plus taking on $1.1-million in the company's existing debt.
Critics like gay-culture columnist Richard Burnett had by then begun to pan the channel for drifting to a mix of reruns, workout shows, and nighttime porn.
Mr. Craig said his efforts to turn the company around include a new licence and deals with cable distributors that will next month move the channel into bundles where it will be sold as part of a cable package with other stations, winning a bigger subscriber base.
PrideVision is renaming its main channel Out TV for inclusion into regular-grid bundles, and has obtained a licence to operate another channel, to be called Hard.
Mr. Craig's best-known legal battle came in 1999 when he launched the ill-fated ICraveTV.com, a website that grabbed the signals of television in Toronto and streamed them over the Internet.
ICraveTV was deluged with legal threats. Mr. Craig eventually gave up, deciding the technology was not working, anyway.
Skunksyard
No you have me in tears.. from laughing so hard
skunksyard
Mr. Chart man removed it as soon as we referred to it here. He will be moderating a stock board that the now deleted moderator cound not pick his nose let alone a winning stock. LMAO
Now you know why I laugh so hard!!!!!!!!!
Viper
LMAO Yes I noticed that. Some really make me laugh!!!
Poot
Look at who is his associate Moderator. Too Funny!!!!!!!!!
Skaunks
Thanks for the nice words. But you give me too much credit. Some here do not realize how critical we have been at times when it comes to Q. Been here to long to make anything or anyone bother me. Some are so transparent, it's not even a challenge. I actually laugh at some.
Bottom line is this:
1. We will be rewarded for our beliefs.
2. We will one day say "at least we tried".
Whatever the out come I can say we did it with class and honesty.
Keep up your GREAT DD. If not for you this board would have gone the way of _______________. Fill in the blank.
Good luck to all.....
I gave up the MOD slot becasue I got tired of baby sitting. Unlike others I have a life and I actually enjoy it. Please do not bother to respond. I accidently turned of my filter feature and there you were. Now go back to your LEMMING TREE
Time for me to fly. Perfect weeather and visibility today here in NJ.
I know exactly what it means.
Bob
Thanks for the post. Much appreciated.
I love the term "ENFORCED IMBALANCE". Perfect for this thread.
skunksyard
you forgot Over and Over LMAO
skunksyard
You forgot OVER and OVER
Skunksyard
Kewl. Was not sure.
Looking good from this end. Go QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ!!!!
One brick at a time. Follow the Yellow Brick Road!!!!