Well, this should be interesting.
Jun. 28th, 2005 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fourleftxaviersMtv Launches New Gay Cable TV Channel
ETA: I wonder if it'll suck. The headline makes it sound like it's going to be the gay version of Mtv. But assuming that doesn't happen, it does sound promising, and it'll piss off the Christian right and that's always a good time.
If I have any residual doubt about this, it's because the big reason corporations care about gays is that they want into homosexual wallets. If these 15 million homosexual Americans they mention were socio-economically disenfranchised, I'm not sure any of these companies would be giving us the time of day.
But heck. Can't look at a gift horse like that; it's nice of Viacom to try to serve the niche market. It's about time, considering we've had the Golf channel for like 14 years.
Certainly it'll be worth checking out.
ETA: I wonder if it'll suck. The headline makes it sound like it's going to be the gay version of Mtv. But assuming that doesn't happen, it does sound promising, and it'll piss off the Christian right and that's always a good time.
If I have any residual doubt about this, it's because the big reason corporations care about gays is that they want into homosexual wallets. If these 15 million homosexual Americans they mention were socio-economically disenfranchised, I'm not sure any of these companies would be giving us the time of day.
But heck. Can't look at a gift horse like that; it's nice of Viacom to try to serve the niche market. It's about time, considering we've had the Golf channel for like 14 years.
Certainly it'll be worth checking out.
