Here's a "..pinkster.." that stands to make a lot of people a fat chunk of change - QBID.
pseudo"ASK" approximately $0.015 as of Friday. After they go live on 02APR, the next order of business will be geting off the Pink Sheets.
Following post taken from iHub:
Regarding QBID: (And please. Do your own independent DD to verify any and all of the following):
The company estimates that the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered (GLBT) community in the U.S. to be approximately 20-40 million strong, and the CEO is of the opinion that the company will become profitable on the day they begin TV broadcasting (which is an astounding 24/7 from the get-go!).
The population statistic BTW seems consistent with a recent article I saw estimating the worldwide GLBT to be about 11% (You do the math on that one.)
Among its sources of revenue, QBID, which will handle the production end of things, will get a huge non recurring fee for each new subscriber they sign up. And thousands have already signed up before broadcasting has even begun.
In this respect, surely this is really an already developed market in search of, and fully ready to embrace, a product or service, instead of the other way around, something extremely rare in business and commerce.
Once broadcasting begins, of course, the service is "self advertising," and it's difficult to imagine anyone in the GLBT community who will not of heard about it in very short order.
Thus, marketing expense to the company should be just about nil! - something else which is just about unheard of.
Other key ingredients are that the format is to be family oriented, very upscale and sophisticated with much of the material imported from around the world. And as a $19.95 per month, limited access, premium Dish channel, anyone can sign up and view the programming from the privacy of their own homes. (And of course, there are also thousands of GLBT bars and nightclubs, etc., around the country who will also want to subscribe.)
Do stop and dwell for a moment about the subscribership potential with respect to such a humongous and heretofore vastly underserved segment of the population! And BTW, it turns out that this population is very sophisticated and has, on average, a considerably higher annual salary and disposable income then the general population. (See below.)
From the company's developing affiliate website at (and don't forget to view the RP video at the site):
triangletelevisionnetwork.com
"Triangle Television Network will be the first totally GLBT channel available on television in the United States. Our gay programming will consist of highly acclaimed films, entertainment, special events and documentaries. Our TV programs will be fun, exciting and informative. The programming will consist of news, gay and lesbian sports events, game shows and live shows from bars across the country."
Apparently, much of this high level material already exists and that G&L producers from all over the world will be tripping over themselves at the doorstep of QBID's fairly lavish Palm Springs Studio wanting to give their productions national TV exposure. So I expect that the company will be able to pick and choose from all this candidate material and broadcast only the best to maintain quality.
Further, the company is also originating and producing a bunch of their own shows. A Gay Court, Dating Game, a Soap opera serial, a cooking show, etc., have all been mentioned among others.
I'm going to stop for now and I certainly don't wish to appear as though I've been pumping. But IMHO this is a human interest story and development of unprecedented scope and significance. Just about everybody has some kind of opinion on the subject and, afterall, hears or reads something about it almost every day of their lives.
So IMO, expect to see a considerable ramping up of publicity, website upgrades, programming information, feature articles, advertising, probably ubiquitous news coverage, etc., starting up in the days immediately ahead and extending through the 4 April 2001 debut IMHO.
Best wishes to the Board.
Ron |
