Onward Clueless Soliders
A renewal deal between Time Warner Cable and Viacom will include expansion of cities showing Viacom’s LOGO, a network targeting homosexual viewers. The president of an organization that monitors the influence of homosexuality in the culture, and the head of another that observes cultural trends in media, both say it is really just a natural development of what is already being done on other cable and satellite channels.
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth says it is significant — but not surprising — that the all-homosexual channel LOGO is expanding outside of New York City, its only availability location on cable thus far.
As Pam points out, Logo has been available outside NYC for quite sometime now. But…never mind cable. Seriously.
Pst… Pete… Hey…jackass… Anyone anywhere with a good line-of-sight to the DirectTV satellites can get Logo. And it’s not a premium or pay-per-play channel either. Ask me how I know. They’re watching Queer As Folk and Round Trip Ticket right now everywhere in the bible belt Pete. And if they’ve got Sirius satellite radio, they’re probably listening to OutQ too. And Sirius subscribers can get OutQ in a stream feed to their PC too. That’s how I listen to it when I’m not in the car.
Booga! Booga!
December 30th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I’ve tried to watch Logo a few times, but quickly grew tired of it. My parents had it on their cable. Far too many commericials and the SAME commericials over and over and over. Perhaps it just needs to develop more new material. So far I have been unimpressed, BUT at least it is something and they do show some decent documentaries.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Some months ago they showed a documentary on the history of the gay migration to Fire Island that I considered almost worth my entire year’s subscription to DirectTV. I did a post on it, Here. Yes…most of it isn’t worth watching, but that’s TV in general. You never see Sturgeon’s Law more at work then on TV. But I doubt I’d see the percent that’s worthwhile on Logo, if it weren’t for Logo. Once upon a time PBS might have taken those projects on, but in today’s political climate not likely. Look at what they did to Postcards From Buster just because of that one episode with the Lesbian mothers in Vermont.
For that matter, Most of OutQ isn’t worth listening too either. But as long as they keep broadcasting Sunset Cruse, and Signorile, I reckon I’ll keep paying for it.