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BTW, Viacom buying QTN??

penny-trader
Member posted December 03, 2004 19:06
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Im not sure if this has been posted yet as i have not caught up on the days posts.

http://www.planetout.com/news/letters/?id=253

here! TV isn't the first
LETTERS / A chronology
by David Slee , [e-mail]
December 3, 2004


I'm writing to raise an objection to Larry Buhl's article about here! TV on Nov. 29. He wrote: "By offering a subscription service 12 hours a day, seven days a week, reaching DIRECTV's audience of 13.5 million, here! TV will become the nation's first all gay and lesbian channel, getting a jump on MTV's upcoming Logo channel by just a few months."
This is just flat-out wrong! Here! TV is not the first.

He also describes Q Television as a newcomer, which is not on target either. Q Television has been in the works for eight years. They began broadcasting two months ago on RCN and can now be found in four major U.S. cities.

Q Television was to have launched right after 9/11 but was postponed until this year because the owners felt it would have been the wrong climate.

Also, there are rumors that LOGO/Viacom might be interested in buying Q Television, as advertisers are afraid of going with a station that is not invited into people's homes.

Sincerely,
David Slee