From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10041 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, November 1 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Do you LOVE a good bagel? ["New York Bagel Delivery" Subject: Do you LOVE a good bagel? Do you LOVE a good bagel? http://bagelkingz.rest/HsSY6HasHxJFyWZhA4zp945rxlMf9mhVjAPAEdpBhmlJanER6g http://bagelkingz.rest/TC7FBo6YKZZT8ZEy4Jb2bg41-VBf41H08N1d6yEqMsf7OsTS6g t the 1990 National Cable Television Association conference in Atlanta, the Monitor announced its plans to launch the Monitor Channel, a full-time cable television channel growing out of the newspaper's television output already seen on WQTV that would launch in May 1991. The new service would aim itself at people who were not frequent television viewers with a range of substantive, globally minded programs. The Monitor Channel soft-launched on May 1, 1991 (with the official start date of May 15), into a crowded landscape. Between regulatory paralysis and a lack of channel capacity, a number of new channel launches at the start of the decade were struggling to get traction; Hoagland believed that the new service could wait out early lean years because most of its expenses were tied up in existing radio and WQTV operations. The launch was a major risk for the Monitor Syndicate. WQTV's programming was seen as in-depth but slow in pace and was not garnering audience interest in Boston, an image that would transfer to the Monitor Channel. At WQTV, the only show getting ratings attention of any variety was a weekly airing of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Monitor Television president Netty Douglass admitted to Variety that the station had lost as much as $10 million a year prior to restoring some of its catalog of syndicated shows to its schedule. However, major expenditures were made, including $14 million in newsgathering equipment.:?56? As early as April 1990, when ABC's World News Tonight ran a report on the financial losses of the Monitor television division,:?55? concern arose among some within The Christian Science Monitor about the scope and priority placed on the broadcasting operation. Even before the Monitor Channel launched, several maneuvers prompted financial questions: church officials were touring the country urging an increase in contrib ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10041 ***********************************************