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Tue, 25 May 2004 10:41
FOX revamps sports channels, MTV launching gay channel
Author: dimlan17@yahoo.c
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:41
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:41
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from yahoo MTV, Fox to Unveil New Channels This Week By Andrew Wallenstein NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Two of the cable industry's biggest programming groups are expected to announce plans to launch new channels this week. MTV Networks will unveil its long-awaited gay-themed cable channel as early as Tuesday, according to sources. Development of the channel has been on and off again at parent company Viacom, which reversed an earlier determination to scuttle the project last year. Few details were available on what the channel will look like, but its widely reported brand name -- Outlet -- is said to have been scrapped. MTV Networks chairman/CEO Tom Freston and the group's president, Judy McGrath, will oversee the channel; Brian Graden, president of entertainment at MTV and VH1, is expected to have input, but not direct oversight. Over at Fox Cable Networks Group, a trio of Fox Sports Digital channels will all be rebranded and relaunched to focus exclusively on college sports, according to sources. Each channel will retain its regional focus -- East, Central and West -- but all professional sports coverage will be dropped. Fox will also look to sell advertising on the channels, which don't currently carry commercials and have not been gaining much traction with viewers since they were launched in 2001. The channels will remain on digital sports tiers available for purchase in roughly 20 million homes through most major distributors. Both MTV and Fox declined comment on their respective new ventures. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Re: FOX revamps sports channels, MTV launching gay channel
Author: "Chris Lambert!"
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:18
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:18
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"David" <dimlan17@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:40b32277.4292524429@news.individual.net... > Over at Fox Cable Networks Group, a trio of Fox Sports Digital > channels will all be rebranded and relaunched to focus exclusively on > college sports, according to sources. Each channel will retain its > regional focus -- East, Central and West -- but all professional > sports coverage will be dropped. Which channels are they talking about anyway? Is FSWorld one of them? -C! -- -Chris Lambert The Original Game Show Page! * www.gameshowpage.com
Re: FOX revamps sports channels, MTV launching gay channel
Author: djaxmann@aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:35
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:35
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David reportz: << >Over at Fox Cable Networks Group, a trio of Fox Sports Digital >channels will all be rebranded and relaunched to focus exclusively on >college sports, according to sources. Each channel will retain its >regional focus -- East, Central and West -- but all professional >sports coverage will be dropped. Fox will also look to sell >advertising on the channels, which don't currently carry commercials >and have not been gaining much traction with viewers since they were >launched in 2001. > >> And adding commercials is going to help GAIN viewers? Does it seem to anyone that FOX Cable took a few of the FOX Network execs' advice here? ---- "If President Bush is going to take credit for 'the invisble hand' [of economics], then he's going to take the blame when 'the hand' gives him the finger." --From Fark.com
Re: FOX revamps sports channels, MTV launching gay channel
Author: Stan Brown
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:17
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:17
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"Andy Jakcsy" <djaxmann@aol.computer> wrote in rec.arts.tv:
>David reportz:
>> Fox will also look to sell
>>advertising on the channels, which don't currently carry commercials
>>and have not been gaining much traction with viewers since they were
>>launched in 2001.
>
>And adding commercials is going to help GAIN viewers?
Hey, it worked for AMC! They threw away their original audience, but
IIRC their new audience is bigger, though obviously not consisting
of high-quality folks like me. :-)
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Re: FOX revamps sports channels, MTV launching gay channel
Author: corwin2@aol.coma
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 04:11
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 04:11
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dimlan17@yahoo.com (David) >from yahoo > >MTV, Fox to Unveil New Channels This Week >By Andrew Wallenstein > >NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - >MTV Networks will unveil its long-awaited gay-themed cable channel as >early as Tuesday, according to sources. Development of the channel has >been on and off again at parent company Viacom, which reversed an >earlier determination to scuttle the project last year. MTV's not gay? >Few details were available on what the channel will look like, but its >widely reported brand name -- Outlet -- is said to have been scrapped. >MTV Networks chairman/CEO Tom Freston and the group's president, Judy >McGrath, will oversee the channel; Brian Graden, president of >entertainment at MTV and VH1, is expected to have input, but not >direct oversight. VH1's not gay? ... "A third gay-themed channel" would seem to be a more accurate press release.
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