Press

QTV Newsmagazine has been featured in several local and nationally distributed newspapers and magazines to include San Francisco’s leading gay news weekly, the B.AR. and BAY TIMES newspapers as well as the monthly SPECTRUM newspaper.

One major press highlight happened in 1998 when QTV was embroiled in the controversial fallout from a story involving QTV and Miller Brewing Company. The show’s Executive Producer was featured on CNN Headline News during a report that talked about national companies advertising and creating gay-specific television and print advertising campaigns. QTV’s Rahn Fudge spoke to CNN about the creation and significance of producing a television spot that featured an all- gay male cast touting Miller beer. The so-called BARECHEST CALENDAR men of San Francisco were part of a local non-profit gay organization fundraising effort. The television spot represented the first time a national beer company was featured in a gay-specific television commercial. Miller Brewing company officials scrapped the airing of the QTV BARECHEST CALENDAR MEN spot that never aired.

The actual newspaper and magazine articles along with the CNN Headline News report are being carefully compiled and will eventually appear here.

June 22, 2004

                              LOCAL GAY TV SHOW
                             NO LONGER HARD TO FIND
       Move helps QTV stay alive and visible!(San Francisco)-----No longer will
San Francisco's gay community have to miss an episode or favorite segment of
QTV Newsmagazine because they could never find it on the local cable TV system
or remember what channel it's on or simply didn't have time to watch!

     In a move to make the show readily available to local gay audiences, and to
help rid the show of it's "hard-to-find"  reputation in the market, producers
of San Francisco's grassroots-born, only commercial gay television news,
information and entertainment program launched an official QTV website that
features streaming video of local, pertinent gay stories available 24/7 on the
worldwide web.

     "At least now we don't have to continously answer the question of when or
where people can find the show or worry too much about whether the show
segments would not make it to air because of fluctuating, show-to-show
advertising support", says Executive Producer Rahn Fudge who is also host of
the eight-year old newsmagazine-style gay television show.

     Fudge admits that its an idea that should have come sooner but the past
years have been so intensely focused on keeping the show on-air as much as
possible that marrying the concept and content to the internet was not at the
forefront of our effort.  Besides, he adds, the resources just were not in
place before. Regardless, says Fudge, what's most important now is that he and
a team of volunteers can keep covering the lives and lifestyles of the local gay
market and putting it where the whole wide world can see now.  "Naturally, we
will continue to seek advertising support for QTV, the broadcast, but at least
this way we can get stories out there and seen immediately by creating a
webcast of the show and its segments", Fudge explains.

He sees QTV, the broadcast, as more of an episodic effort now that the webcast
of the show has been born.  "The television broadcast version of QTV
Newsmagazine will still exist but only as often as we can find advertisers who
will support the costs of broadcasting it on an episode-by-episode basis
instead of having to stay consistent with what was---at least for us---a cost
prohibitive weekly or even monthly committment", says Fudge.  Producers hope
the webcast visibility will somehow convince potential advertisers to become
interested in both the webcast and television broadcast of the show.

One of the main features of the QTV webcast is a special streaming video window
called NEWS OF THE DAY THAT'S GAY!  It will be a weekly wrap-up of current
local gay news, information and entertainment stories happening in and around
the San Francisco Bay Area.

The stories that premiered with the Sunday, June 20th launch of the webcast
deals with the stalled jury murder trial of Newark, California transgender teen
Gwen Araujo and highlights of this year's Opening Night at FRAMELINE's 28th
annual LGBT International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film
Festival and the city's sixth annual International Black Film Festival.

"Each week in our NEWS OF THE DAY THAT'S GAY! window the goal is to have a
fresh, local hard-hitting news and entertainment report that's relevant and
pertinent to the interests of our local gay viewers", says Fudge.

The website will also have an interactive component where viewers can offer
their feedback and story suggestions in a special designed QTV forum area.
Right now gay internet-savvy surfers can view not only current news and
information but also back segments of QTV and soon an entire half-hour QTV show
will be downloadable.

Needless to say, after more than than eight years of trying to fly QTV locally,
Fudge and his team is pleased to hear that MTV and Viacom have finally announced
a start date and year for America's first-ever gay cable television channel.
He is also interested in the developments surrounding the newly-announced, Palm
Springs, California-based Q Television Network and whether there is any
possible collaboration.

"Of course we are most interested in possibilities with the new MTV/Viacom
effort because of the chance to syndicate our show and concept on a national
level.  At the very least it would be significant if QTV became a principle
content supplier for LOGO (the name of new national gay cable TV channel) out
of the San Francisco/Bay Area market.  We are currently developing a formal
pitch---towards that end---for LOGO", says Fudge.

To view the QTV webcast anytime please go to (www.qtvnews.tv).  To reach us by
email please do so at info@qtvnews.tv  Or to reach QTV alternatively call
415.431.5650 (phone) or 415.239.8157 (fax).

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