Q Network sets first gay comedy special --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Big News Network.com Saturday 2nd October, 2004
Q Television Network is planning to air what it called TV's first all-gay standup comedy series, the network announced Friday.
The series, called Giggles, is set to begin filming Oct. 20 at the Ice House, a popular comedy club in Pasadena, Calif. The series will also be the first original series to air on QTN, the first full-time gay and lesbian TV network.
Georgia Ragsdale -- star of the video Sporty Girls and a performer at the Montreal Comedy Festival -- will emcee the series.
Comics scheduled to appear on the show include Bob Smith (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher), Stephanie Howard (Premium Blen) and Ant (Last Comic Standing). http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=655e3c63eb086fcd
I was hoping Ant would be on Q Television Network. When I saw him on "Last comic standing" he was great but I guess he didn't get enough votes to stay.
That news made my weekend. I'm enjoying the progress and know my investment is secure!
quote:Originally posted by Clyde Crashcup: Saturday 2nd October, 2004
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Just got an email from the Advocate. Mr. ____
We published a story on Q television in our September 28 print issue (p. 52), and we publish frequent news items about the network in our online edition, including the Gay Games licensing agreement you mentioned. I'd like to think that our readers are well informed about Q TV's existence and activities, and that they have the information they need to support Q TV, if they so desire.
So far, we have read every press release from Q television and tend to publish something about most of them. Certainly we will continue to report on their activities and programming as they develop their business and audience. We absolutely agree with you that the more queer-targeted media that are successful, the better it is for all of us. If they find more supporters such as yourself, they certainly will succeed.
Thanks for writing.
-Bruce
Bruce C. Steele Editor-in-Chief THE ADVOCATE and Advocate.com
6922 Hollywood Blvd., 10th floor * Los Angeles, CA 90028 *
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I'd like to emphasis If they find more supporters such as yourself, they certainly will succeed.
I love hearing from other sources about this investment!
quote:Originally posted by 1BigTip: Just got an email from the Advocate. Mr. ____
We published a story on Q television in our September 28 print issue (p. 52), and we publish frequent news items about the network in our online edition, including the Gay Games licensing agreement you mentioned. I'd like to think that our readers are well informed about Q TV's existence and activities, and that they have the information they need to support Q TV, if they so desire.
So far, we have read every press release from Q television and tend to publish something about most of them. Certainly we will continue to report on their activities and programming as they develop their business and audience. We absolutely agree with you that the more queer-targeted media that are successful, the better it is for all of us. If they find more supporters such as yourself, they certainly will succeed.
Thanks for writing.
-Bruce
Bruce C. Steele Editor-in-Chief THE ADVOCATE and Advocate.com
6922 Hollywood Blvd., 10th floor * Los Angeles, CA 90028 *
" The public is welcome to attend the first two episodes of Giggles, taped back-to-back beginning at 8pm. The event that is located at 24 N. Mentor Ave. in Pasadena will be free, but there is a two-drink minimum charge. Dinner will also be available starting at 7pm. Guest lineups for the show includes; Bob Smith, Stephanie Howard, Ant and Sabrina Matthews."
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this was uncalled for GLPIMP you understood his comment. you offered nothign in return.
nice to see you PK hope to see your penguin elite forces again. lol
Rod
quote:Originally posted by glfpimp: Just so you know penguinking, this is not a question. A question would generally begin with who, what, where, when, why, or how. Also, it would generally be followed by a question mark (?).
For example:
Why would you say, "I have a question," then not actually ask a question?
Or
Who's your daddy biat**?
Both of the above examples can be your starting point. Try to write a few sentences that ask questions! Good luck.
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WTG FRANK OLSEN: PROCLAIMING YOUR COMPANY WILL BE OFF THE PINKS IN 6 MONTHS. HULARIOUS, ABSOLUTELY HULARIOUS.
LET'S SEE HERE FRANK:
YOU OBTAIN FINANCING TO GUARANTEE 5-YEARS OF BROADCAST.
THEN YOU TELL US YOU HAVE A MAJOR FINANCE COMPANY LOAN YOU $2 MILLION TO ASSURE 1-YEAR BROADCAST. THEN YOU RE-ISSUE 5-6 BILLION SHARES ON TOP OF 50 BILLION MORE.
BY YOUR OWN ACCOUNT YOU HAVE APPROXIMATELY 15 BILLION BACK IN FEBRUARY. ALL THAT TOGETHER IS 71 BILLION SHARES.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by U4TSAF2: [b]WTG FRANK OLSEN: PROCLAIMING YOUR COMPANY WILL BE OFF THE PINKS IN 6 MONTHS. HULARIOUS, ABSOLUTELY HULARIOUS.
U4 you ol' knucklehead where have you been? I've been worried about you. Did you get washed out to shore by the hurricans? Let us know what you've been up to.
------------------ The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
[This message has been edited by Clyde Crashcup (edited October 02, 2004).]
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U4, All of this great news and that's all you've got? I figured you've been gone so long trying to come up with something better than that. Kinda' disappointed. Thanks for you update though. LOL
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Frank Olson Interview in text format. If any of you pick up something I made a mistake on or missed, let me know.
But here you go. -------------------
Good day this is Michael Wachs with CEOcast. I’m here today with Frank Olson. Frank is president and Chief Executive officer of Q Television Network, a company that trades over the counter under the pink sheet symbol QBID. One that was organized to create and develop a network devoted to providing television programming to the gay & lesbian community. Thanks for joining CEOcast today Frank.
FO: Thank you for having me.
MW: I thought perhaps you can begin with the overview of the company and then we’ll get into the programming and why this is so well suited for its audience.
FO: Well first thing the company has been .. for the gay community. We’ve been working on this for 11 years. This is not an overnight project, it’s an 11 year project. We have 70% of our money is private money that was invested in the company and the rest of the money is stock sales. The company is a pink sheet which we plan on taking forward reporting. We’re in the process of doing that, we’ve made some mistakes ,,, With ____ now we got it straightened out over the last 5 years and now we’ll be reporting probably within 6 months to a year. 6 months. It’s going to take at least 6 months to finish that.
MW: As you look at the audience now, why is your content so well suited for it?
FO: Well because see, our content, I should give you a little bit of my experience. I’ve owned television stations for 30 years and I had17 gay bars. So I know the gay community, I had the first black radio network and I’ve been specializing with minority broadcasting all my life. Native American broadcasting, all kinds of minority mixed market broadcast. So by owning gay bars I’ve learned about the gay community. How diversified they were and what you had to do to make a television station for them. And that was not making a bunch of sitcoms and making the gay person the odd ball. Gay people do not buy gay toothpaste, you have to understand that. They buy fords, they buy crest, and they’re only gay in the bedroom and the rest of the time they’re normal regular people that live a gay lifestyle and they have gay families. Most gay people of the age of 30 have a partner and they have long relationships, probably because they’re not under the pressure of being married. (laughs)
MW: Frank what about the content itself, what kind of content do you provide?
FO: Ok, first thing we have a 3 hour block in the evening that’s repeated 3 times. It starts out with a gay interactive talk show that anybody from any place in the world can call us up And we can put you on television through your web cam and we’ve done some special technology that they used in Iraq and we boost up the signal and its not perfect for the person calling but they are on television and you can see them very well and it’s a call in talk show and it will talk about gay issues and one day it will be fun, there’s 3 hosts of lesbian comedians, stand up comedians, And 1 person has the longest running gay radio talk show which has been going on for 19 years, David Crest. Then we have Chris Fox which is another radio DJ but he’s been in several movies and some sitcoms and he will be the other host. The 3 host that will address 3 plasma screen and will be a two hour talk show. One screen for the mid-America , one screen for the west coast, and one screen for the east coast. You’ll be able to call from any place on your webcam. Or you’ll be able to go to Kinkos which has a national teleconference system that the picture comes in very clear which will be able to bring in guests from all over the world and they go to Kinkos and they’ll be able to call and be able to get gay issues on the table immediately. Gay people are very issue oriented.
The next show that comes on the 3 hour block is the gay events show that tells what happening out in the world of gay and it basically shows movies and film clips and its kind of a fun out and about show. Then we go to a gay sports show, I am the only gay transsender sports caster in the country. Used to be on ABC, I don’t know what name she used on ABC but now she has a man so now she is Jackie inks(?) and she does the sports behind the sports. And then we go to gay movies, gay plays, and then in the morning we do the lesbian show this is copy after the view called woman on woman it’s a strip show 5 days a week. On weekends we do a tech show that shows where all the gay website are and then we buy some programming.
We just signed a contract with the gay Olympics in 2006, a multi million dollar contract. We have all the broadcast rights, all the network rights, and the line feed rights. So we’ll be able to send it all the over the world, if anybody wants it they have to go through us. That was just signed yesterday. We’ll be doing gay rodeos, we’re going to be following the gay community all over the country and that’s what’s different from every other station; we’re going to bring the gay community together. Person in Atlanta will finally get to see the Halloween parade in west Hollywood live on our station.
MW: Frank, what about advertiser and your advertising and your revenue base.
FO: Revenue base comes from 2 places. We charge $7.95 which we split with the cable companies and that is for 2 reasons. 1, we want to give the cable company some inducement to take us but also we want to be invited in the home. We want to be scrambled; we don’t want to force our agenda on anybody. This is very important because I’ve been married, I was married for 29 years and I have grandchildren and I do not want my grandchildren to ask me why to men are kissing on television; an 8 & 9 year old. Children ask me that. When they’re 12 I’ll sit there and tell them all about the facts of life. But I’m going to have them; you know kids act out what they see on television. I’m a gay person, openly gay now, but they don’t need to know that right now; kids get to much force on them they don’t need to have that force on them, so we’re going to be scrambled.
The next revenue base comes from advertisers, we limit our advertiser down to, you ever picked up a gay magazine, we call them gay mags, and if you’ll notice in gay mags there’s several fortune 500 companies that advertise in those but they really don’t like to advertise in those because they want to get to the gay community but they don’t like who advertising with because the next page is escort services and gay bars and strip joints and things like that. Our ratings are TV14 and we don’t go any higher. So we give them a nice, safe place to advertise where the straight person doesn’t know they’re advertising and so they will not lose to, remember we have to deal with 13%. 13.10% Gay 3% curious. Then we have the 33% religious community so advertisers have to be very careful they don’t want to lose more then they’re gaining.
The gay families have a 600 billion dollar a year disposal income. Advertisers want a big chunk of that especially people like American Express, Carnival tours, travel agencies, and beverage companies, and computer companies. They love to get into that money but they don’t want to offend anybody, so that’s why we’re scrambled and so we run a limited run of advertisers. We do not break movies, we do not break gay plays, we do not break some events, but we do break sports events, the talk show, we break talking head show and things like that. So we average about 8 minutes an hour instead of 18 minutes an hour.
MW: What should investors now look for in the coming quarters in terms of key developments from the company.
FO: Well we’re building 3 studios we’ll be all over the country and it will cut our expenses down. We’ve moved our production facilities in Fort Worth, Texas because of the talent Fort Worth has and the pricing is so much cheaper, so we’ll be able to live within our budget and start growing to be a money making company. We should be showing profit within 12-13 months. And we should be off the penny stocks, I would say in a year we will be on an exchange, I don’t which one yet we’re having advisories and lawyers and everyone getting into that. But we’re a growing stable company; we have plenty of financing, plenty of money available to carry us 3 years if we don’t make a dime. But I think we’ll be making money within a year. Right now we’re building up programming, we’re building up studios, and that’s where we’re at.
MW: Well I’ve been speaking today with Frank Olson, Frank is President and Chief Executive officer of Triangle Multimedia Limited a company that trades over the counter under the symbol QBID and one that is owner of the Q Television Network. Frank thanks for joining CEOcast today.
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not to burst any bubbles but frank says at least 6 months up to a year. not bad news but in 6 months if its not done U4 will be calling frank a liar. says should be profitable in 12 months also good news. that means money left after loans, production & overhead. he also gave us the base deal with cable companies, said splits the 7.95, about $4 each. not sure but i was always under the impression that cable companies paid to broadcast channels, heard of them being ready to cancel differant stations because they wanted to much for the rights to broadcast. if this is true then it might help getting on bigger cable line-ups. if a broker can make his investers 20% a yr he is considered great this means anything over .084 in the next yr is gravy (based on yesterdays close). should we start cooking & mashing those spuds now?
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Bill, 6 months was to be reporting I think. 12 months was for profitbility and also being on the exchange.
So we should expect to see financials at the end of the 2nd quarter next year.
quote:Originally posted by bill1352: not to burst any bubbles but frank says at least 6 months up to a year. not bad news but in 6 months if its not done U4 will be calling frank a liar. says should be profitable in 12 months also good news. that means money left after loans, production & overhead. he also gave us the base deal with cable companies, said splits the 7.95, about $4 each. not sure but i was always under the impression that cable companies paid to broadcast channels, heard of them being ready to cancel differant stations because they wanted to much for the rights to broadcast. if this is true then it might help getting on bigger cable line-ups. if a broker can make his investers 20% a yr he is considered great this means anything over .084 in the next yr is gravy (based on yesterdays close). should we start cooking & mashing those spuds now?
quote:Originally posted by Just Looking: Cool! Another U4TSAF2 post. That means we're headed for a bounce next week. It never fails! LOL
LOOK who Frank just hired to Host GIGGLES Comedy club Show $$$$ You all must watch the following Georgia Ragsdale VIDEO CLIPS, Frank just hired her to host our GIGGLES Comedy show. 10/2/2004 11:25:07 AM Hello all; Just got viewing the Georgia Ragsdale Video and she has been on TV more then once. Very Very Funny as well you all must stop what you are doing and go to the following Ragsdale web site and click on View Her Video button. Frank & company did a great job in hireing her to be the host for Q GIGGLES comedy show. enjoy!! http://www. georgiaragsdale. net/ http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=4186491
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all the financials will come out when we go to reporting (otc, amex, etc). profitable 12-13 months--well, we'll see.
this is what he said important to me (for the future going forward):
...referring to the 2006 gay olympics....
"we have all the broadcast, all the network, all the line-feed rights. we'll be able to send it all over the world. wherever anybody wants it, they have to get it from us."
"we just signed that deal yesterday"
--so we (the q) have a signed contract in hand for the future!!!
those people in chicago have already done their olympics--already legit. ergo, if we weren't legit, they wouldn't have signed with us.
...legitimacy. we (the q) really exist folks.......
Very overwhelmed by so much positive news, media exposure and programming definitives!
I personally went from "is this a scam" jitters one week ago to "wonder when Q will broadcast in NYC" today. I didn't think I'd get this chance to average down, and I have. If we see .03 I'll be thrilled- I'm not greedy.
Yes, he did say they buy "Fords and Crest" (think he came up with those on the fly? i don't).
Yes, he said "we'll be reporting in 6 to 12 months- 6 months, yes, its gonna take at least 6 months.." (he seemed to be be talking out loud). Key is that it is in his plans.
Love that it didn't sound scripted, he had humor, and I really like that he wasn't CEO-ish. IMO that makes people in positions of authority want to help you. Come in all corporate like you know it all, and people assume you've got it all together. I've seen it happen many times in business. I belive working the "underdog good guy" angle is going to help Q a lot.
I like this "help my cause- we're in this together" casual approach.
~BB
quote:Originally posted by 1BigTip: I'm assuming everyone is taking the weekend off from watching the boards.
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all the moving parts starting to come together....dominoes starting to fall
lol...now if that pesky pps will only start cooperatin'.........
quote:Originally posted by betting babe: Not taking the weekend off!
Very overwhelmed by so much positive news, media exposure and programming definitives!
I personally went from "is this a scam" jitters one week ago to "wonder when Q will broadcast in NYC" today. I didn't think I'd get this chance to average down, and I have. If we see .03 I'll be thrilled- I'm not greedy.
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I know that one should never assume, but I am going to any way.
I'm assuming that the pps will rise following the buy back. I'm definitely ready for the move up, but I'm not anxious about it.
This has provided the opportunity to add more shares and the opportunity for others to get in while it is subpenny. Most of us have benefited from the recent lower pps.
Again today, I read back through this thread and the previous one. We have truly made tremendous progress within just four weeks!
The next four weeks ????? IMHO, it's only going to get bigger and better.
Firefly, I also noticed that Atlanta will be able to watch the Halloween parade!!! Now, we need our crystal ball--will it be the '04 or the '05 parade?
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