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Rillington · 07-03-2004, 23:25

GTV hasn;t gone on air as yet. It is proposed to be an entertainment channel aimed at gay people broadcasting from teatime till the early hours. I understand it will show some soft-core porn overnight. The channel is due to launch on satellite shortly.

Yes, the channel is to be a premium channel, like most of the Asian channels, for example, are.

There are two gay channels available but neither are on ntl. Gaydate TV is the gay version of the The Dating Channel, which is for heterosexual people. ntl chooses to take hetero dating channel but not the gay version even though they are made by the same company. People might conclude that ntl have intentionally chosen not to take the gay version, only the hetero version, and that the decision was anti-gay.

The other is Gaydar Radio which broadcasts on Sky, the intenret, on DAB in London and Brighton but NOT on cable (either ntl or TW).

There is currently no all-porn gay channel in the UK. There was one a few years ago on satellite but, as per usual, no cable company was willing to take the channel even though it was happy to broadcast the hetero porn channels.

07-03-2004, 23:25	#41
Rillington Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Services: Virgin Media, DAB Posts: 1,157	Re: Gay channel GTV hasn;t gone on air as yet. It is proposed to be an entertainment channel aimed at gay people broadcasting from teatime till the early hours. I understand it will show some soft-core porn overnight. The channel is due to launch on satellite shortly. Yes, the channel is to be a premium channel, like most of the Asian channels, for example, are. There are two gay channels available but neither are on ntl. Gaydate TV is the gay version of the The Dating Channel, which is for heterosexual people. ntl chooses to take hetero dating channel but not the gay version even though they are made by the same company. People might conclude that ntl have intentionally chosen not to take the gay version, only the hetero version, and that the decision was anti-gay. The other is Gaydar Radio which broadcasts on Sky, the intenret, on DAB in London and Brighton but NOT on cable (either ntl or TW). There is currently no all-porn gay channel in the UK. There was one a few years ago on satellite but, as per usual, no cable company was willing to take the channel even though it was happy to broadcast the hetero porn channels.