Life & times of TVPolari

TV Polari & EGHT

2011-04-12T04:15:00.000-07:00

TV Polari would like to announce a partnership with EGHT http://www.eght.co.uk, we will be filming all the tours for national TV so watch this space as its going to get exciting.

Adverts we made

2011-02-01T00:22:00.000-08:00

This is the Advert we did for Almond Reef an amazing hideaway B and B in Spain. Totally recomend you go for a stay, the owners even come and pick you up from the airport.

TV Polari Looking for content

2011-02-01T00:16:00.000-08:00

Do you have content that you would like 175,000 viewers to watch, Lets us know and we can take a look and you can be part of the largest growing TV Channel in the UK. This is the video we did for Army Red the amazing new Aftershave.

Penny Television Launches

2010-03-13T01:14:00.001-08:00

Finance & Property channel Penny Television Adds Its Award Winning Line Up To TV Polari’s IPTV Offerings

DATE (London, UK): A new TV channel is set to help individuals with money on the TV Polari network - the first, UK-launched and globally broadcast, lifestyle IPTV channel that will focus on money, property, investing in people and entertainment. Broadcasting online and via IP set-top box services on the Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV) platform, Penny Television will promote national and international publicity for people and their finance; whether it be exploring the lives of those being made redundant, buying a new home in the UK abroad or an individual trying to help a community.

Penny Television set up in London by finance consultant Aaron Carty, as a channel dedicated to spotlighting money issues in a way that can help and entertain people through top quality programs that they can watch when they want to through the internet or through the TV schedule via the IP set-top box services on the Global Digital Broadcast platform. At the same time as creating a business to business network through featuring unique and specialised companies within the TV programs. The biggest impact Penny Television will have is it’s investment in people. Exploring individuals who are trying to help communities with young people, those who have had radical changes to their lives through economic downturns as well as upturns and those individuals who make a stand to change their lives.

Penny Television as a starring channel on TV Polari, will all be an On Demand and broadcast channel; as content is released on a continual basis, including upcoming titles such as London’s Best Dance Crew influenced by the hit TV show ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’, Queer As Talent, Interior – from the Designer. As well as top US dramas like Desperate Housewives, The Wire, True Blood, Chuck, Sex and the City and Prison Break. Penny Television is such a diverse channel giving birth to a metro sexual money channel that is a lot more than just about saving the pennys but also about how to spend them.

Aaron Carty, Channel Editor of Penny Television add, “I’ve been given this incredible opportunity to create a channel using my expertise and enthusiasm. Penny Television has been created to be a diverse channel that will allow individuals to get involved as much as they want to because the content is focused on these individuals, their money, how they spend it and what not to do with it.”

Lancelot Fougere, CEO for the TV Polari network, adds: “This is an amazing time for the TV Polari Network and we are proud to have Penny Television as one of our channels.”

TV Polari and its sub-channels are available to view globally online via TV Polari’s own website and GDBTV’s Go UK TV portal; and on the Something TV set-top box to television service in the UK.

www.pennytelevision.tv

www.tvpolari.com

To read Global Digital Broadcast press releases online and click through to all channel portals and websites, please visit: http://www.globaldigitalbroadcast.com/press

ENDS

Notes to editors

About TV Polari:
TV Polari was launched in 2007 and is based in Brighton. TV Polari offers a package of gay-orientated products and services via global IPTV broadcast (online) and in the UK through the Something TV set-top box service. TV Polari provides lifestyle and news, shopping and movie programming, in addition to hosting the Gabbi World, PLANitGAY travel and Top Gayer sub-channels. From serious issues to comedy and clubbing, TV Polari covers a wide range of subjects for the gay and lesbian community, with the Together TV gay wedding channel set to launch late 2009. TV Polari is the only dedicated gay broadcaster. (http://www.tvpolari.com)

About Global Digital Broadcast:
Established in 2005 and headquartered in Brighton, East Sussex, Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV) provides technical services in order to enable internet protocol television (IPTV) to be delivered by broadcasters around the world, to viewers around the world. It is the first to develop and implement such a comprehensive, end-to-end, IPTV application, including the G-Studio middleware; an IP set-top box (IP-STB); the online virtual set-top box (VSTB) application; secure age verification processes; and its pioneering MyPVR application, which enables the user/viewer to access previously screened programmes, including saving them in full.

GDBTV maintains and operates a number of international IPTV set-top box networks and can deliver globally online. (http://www.gdbtv.com)

Contacts:

Aaron Carty, Channel Director
Penny Television
Email: aaron@pennytelevision.tv
Telephone: +44(0)208 858 7086 / +44(0)7885 904 755

Lancelot Fougere, CEO

TV Polari
Email: lance@tvpolari.com
Telephone: +44(0)1689 813742 / +44(0)7956 389108

The BoyZone Launches TV & Radio

2010-01-06T03:56:00.001-08:00

Social Network Launches TV and Radio

Boyzone is one of the fastest growing social networks for gay and bisexual men launched its free to air Television and Radio station this month giving members yet another reason to join the site. TheBoyZone.com, launched in September 2009, now has in excess of 10,000 users from across the World, making it one of the ONLY free social network sites aimed specifically at gay and bisexual men.

In association with TVPolari, the leading gay broadcasting platform, TheBoyZone.com wanted to bring a fresh approach to the rather ‘old hat’ idea that gay sites should be pay sites. The Radio and TV station has been launched to attract advertisers that wish to target gay and bisexual men and already the company is in talks with several well known brands.

“We wanted to offer a 100% free site to all our users and bring them some great additional services.” said Danny Lee, founder and Director of TheBoyZone.com. “With members from over 140 Countries, and growing faster than we could ever have predicted, we are very proud of what we have achieved so far”.

A major breakthrough for TheBoyZone Radio and TV is that it is available via the new set top box straight onto a conventional Television in the same way as Freeview. “We have the potential to be in half a million homes within the next 12 months which is great for our advertisers” said Danny Lee.

END

Notes for Editors

1. Theboyzone.com is the first free gay and bisexual social networking website to offer both TV and Radio.
2. Over 30,000 people have visited the website since launch and over 10,000 have joined
3. User have a chat room, messaging, photo uploads, private messaging
4. Users can upload events and blogs for all user to see

Contact:
Danny Lee, Director email - marketing@theboyzone.com Telephone: 07966 277072

www.theboyzone.com
www.tvpolari.com

TVPolari on Netgear

2009-12-11T05:45:00.000-08:00

11 December 2009 (Brighton, UK): Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV) & TV Polari, in partnership with Verismo Network’s VuNow service, now includes its selection of channels on the NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live (EVA2000) set-top box (STB).

Available now in many retail outlets across the UK and online via various re-sellers such as PC World, Curry’s, Curry’s Digital and Amazon, the NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live is an easy-to-use and affordable set-top box which transforms the television set into a powerful home media player, enabling live internet channels, web availability, the playback of personal movies, music and photo collections on a standard or HD television set – all without the need for a PC.

Consumers can enjoy a range of features on the Digital Entertainer Live including YouTube, Popular Websites such as the BBC; NASCAR; CNN; National Geographic; and many more, Video Search, Movies, and GDBTV’s rich selection of mainstream; niche; local and educational television channels via VuNow in the UK*.

With IPTV networks all over the World, leading IPTV specialist, GDBTV, breaks through the barriers of delivery and puts its channels on the only open platform that enables over 20 million homes to watch the best in UK television without dish, aerial or cable limitations. By connecting the NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live to a simple broadband connection, from any of the competing suppliers, GDBTV and the NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live bring a new television experience to the home.

GDBTV currently has 48 channels on the Digital Entertainer Live, including: the world’s first guitarist channel, GTV; UK tourism channel, Places of Interest TV; dedicated gay lifestyle channel, TV Polari; niche sports with TV Scuba, TV Yachts and extreme sports channel TV Freestyle, alongside sports media specialist, Press Bureau TV; the UK Entertainment Channel; health and wellbeing channel, SWAT TV; African programming from Ghana Life and Africans In London; Classic Movies; and the new Very Tangy TV network, which offers drama, health, motoring, sitcom and film sub-channels broadcasting some of the USA’s most popular shows before they are broadcast in the UK or Europe. GDBTV will also be including its international networks at a later date.

Jim Deans & , co-founder and managing director of GDBTV & Lancelot Fougere Ceo of TV Polari says: “This is the product people have been waiting for. For the first time, anyone can go to their high street or on online, purchase the NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live and watch our channels alongside their personal photos, videos, favourite websites and music, directly on their television. I am confident this product will catapult to the forefront of both the IPTV and digital TV market because it provides the consumer with everything they want”.

Boy Zone join the TV Polari Network

2009-11-24T02:19:00.000-08:00

TheBoyZone Media
TV & Radio That Hits The Target

• Have you ever considered TV or Radio Advertising?
• Have you been asked for 1000s of pounds for a 30 second advert?
• Do you want to talk directly to Gay and Bisexual men?

TheBoyZone.com is launching TV and Radio aimed directly at gay and bisexual men from across the world and your business can now reach this highly cash rich audience for as little at £10 for 30 seconds.

Running 24 hours a day, TheBoyZone TV and TheBoyZone Radio will bring some of the freshest content and music, along with some traditional programs and tunes to a young, vibrant global audience.

Rates

Hour flat rate advertising fees are designed to be attractive, cost effective and affordable regardless of whether you are an International Brand or a niche business looking to reach a target audience.

The cost of advertising with TheBoyZone Media depends on the length of the commercial. Airtime is sold in multiples of 30 seconds, and the most popular time length is 30 seconds. The longest time length is usually 90 seconds; longer time lengths are often called ‘infomercials’. A 30 second advert costs just £10.00 with negotiable rates available for companies comitting to a regulare campaign.

Production
With TheBoyZone Media you can use your advertisement to reach a captive and targeted audience, both nationally and worldwide. Your advertisement will be broadcast on a channel in direct relation to your product at a fraction of the cost of traditional radio and television adverting.
We are able to tailor make an advertisement to your specific requirements, considering such aspects as length, air time and budget.
We can create an advertisement including Producer, Director, Film & Edit from as little as £450 for TV and £200 for radio. For those companies that already have a traditional commercial, we are able to take this and broadcast it via our EPG management system.
About Us

In 2009, TheBoyZone.com was launched as one of the first social networks amied soley at the Gay and Bisexual male globally. Unlike other gay websites, TheBoyZone.com is 100% free to use and activley promotes NON graphic, non pornographic social networking.

With a current membership of 5000 gay and bisexual men from 137 Countries, TheBoyZone.com is set to become a World leading website by bringing the ‘facebook’ savy guy to a site specifically aimed at them.

In the latter part of 2009, TheBoyZone.com was approched by Global Digital Broadcast (GDB) and TV Polari to open an Internet Protocol Television Channel (IPTV) aimed soley at gay and bisexual men across the World.

GDB and TV Polari operate one of the world's largest networks of independent content and community channels for IPTV. Now in the process of building more television channels to deliver over IP, GDB has formed associations with a number of major international operators, hardware and set-top box manufacturers and digital rights management (DRM) providers. These include Hbbtv with an estimated 50 million customers in Europe watching our intergrated set top box direct to their television.

Very soon GDB will be broadcasting through the Sony Playstation3 platform of IPTV giving TheBoyZone TV 8.5 million viewers in the UK alone. This will be a new era in TV delivery and broadcasting giving advertisors access to cost effective marketing to the Gay and Bisexual community.

The Pink Pound
Together with our in house management and dedicated partner companies we can make your advertising and media dream a reality, without breaking the bank, and we will be here to take the pressure away.
It’s often thought the Pink Pound simply refers to the spending habits of just the LGBT community however recent research suggests that women have also joined this group. It’s estimated that there are some £70bn ‘pink pounds’ earned and spent in the UK alone each year. Whilst the government’s own figures quote the gay population as 3 million when you add to all the other members of the groups, and women, this presents a large proportion of the UK market to have access to.

Just as an example, gay men earn up to £10,000 more each year than heterosexual counterparts which is perhaps why their disposable income is also higher. This sector has traditionally maintained low household costs and instead used their spare cash to spend on themselves, leisure or entertainment. This is market still shows signs of maintaining high discretionary spending in the current climate.
It’s not only the amount of cash these individuals have that sets them apart from the crowd – typically having a higher education, more discerning with their choice of product or supplier and often regarded as ‘early adopters’ by those in the know it’s easy to see how this market offers considerable opportunities.
Why Advertis With TheBoyZone Media

TheBoyZone Media main strength is that it enables advertisers to attract and communicate with LGBT consumers on a huge scale globally. We are able to target your advertisment in time slots that suit your brand so that you get the very best R.O.I for your campaign.
With the advent of IPTV and IPRadio, not only do internet user have much more choice, but also affordable solutions are also available to advertisers. You no longer need a £1m advertising budget to get your brand onto television. Did you know that you could launch a campaign with TheBoyZone Media for as little as £450?

Our dedicated teams are here to dispel the myth that television is an expensive and complicated medium. We now offer a highly flexible approach to meet individual clients’ needs and can help turn a creative concept with a relatively small budget into a commercial reality within a short space of time.

For more detailed information on how to advertise with us, our Advertiser Relations and Business Development teams are on hand to offer you their expertise and help you through the process of booking your campaign.

How to make a TV advertisement

You can approach making a commercial by many different routes. You may choose to brief an advertising agency, who will help in the briefing and creation of the commercial, or you might approach an independent production company directly. Alternatively, TheBoyZone Media Customer Relations can assist with commercial production via our in-house commercial production facility, which offers competitive rates and expertise.

Once a commercial production company is on board, you will need to consider the following:
 What is the main objective for the advertising? (e.g. increasing sales, raising brand awareness)
 Who is the target audience? (e.g. new or existing consumers)
 What is the single most important message the viewer must take from the commercial?
 What evidence is there to support this claim?
 What aspect of the brand’s personality should be conveyed in the commercial?
These are some of the questions you might need to answer. However, this process does not have to cost the earth or use special effects. Television commercials can be made simply.

For more information on how to make a television commercial, our Advertiser Relations and Business Development teams are on hand to offer you their expertise and help you through the entire process.

For more information about our advertising please call:

Telephone: 0845 409 3949

Email: marketing@theboyzone.com

Massive update for TV Polari

2009-10-13T03:31:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Well we have launched Together TV for the civil partnership world, Gino from Pinkweddings.biz has been busy with his channel.

Desinations Lesvos is now done and up on the PlanitGay travel channel, more to follow in this series.

Ray Jordans Screamers is soon to launch onto TvPolari so watch this space.

Gay TV has never been so exciting as now, we have just been launched onto the HbbTV platform which will se us going into over 50 million homes in the next 2 years.

Any ideas or feedback then please do let me know.

Lancelot
xx

Launch of Together TV

2009-07-26T00:52:00.000-07:00

Pink Weddings™ launches “TogetherTV™”

On the 1st September 2009, Gino Meriano founder of Pink Weddings™ the group launches UK’s first and dedicated channel for same-sex couples, their families and friends – TogetherTV™.

Gino Meriano, founder of Pink Weddings comments “It has been an amazing 2009 so far seeing the launch of the designer civil partnership show hosted at the Andaz Hotel London, our book Civil Partnership - a guide to the perfect day and now TogetherTV”.
The channel will aim to offer a wide range of high quality productions from real-life documentaries, movies, topical news from around the world, valued ideas and actual weddings with couples in the UK and beyond.

Meriano continues “We are constantly seeking new ways to let same-sex couples know the unique and different ways they can show their love and commitment. It will also go further to breakdown stereotypes and build a more inclusive society. I am very excited about the launch and a chance to finally have a channel that is the voice for same sex couples, their families and friends”.

At launch, TogetherTV will be available on IPTV* and online giving everyone the opportunity of being able to view the channel anywhere around the world, from a laptop, TV to a mobile phone and iPod”.

Building into the overall package of the TV Polari Group, the team at Pink Weddings believes this will become an exciting channel and one that will grow over time as has the Civil Partnership market since 2005. Over 30,000 couples have already entered into a Civil Partnership with an estimated market equating to an additional £10 million per year and the rolling survey already shows planning well into 2012 (34% for 2009, 52% for 2010, 12% for 2011 and 3% for 2012, dated July 2009 source - Pink Weddings Ltd Survey)
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Note to Editors
TogetherTV website broadcasting soon
http://www.togethertv.tv
Pink Weddings and the Gay Wedding Show
Press enquiries call Gino Meriano
www.ginomeriano.com
UK - 07971 277 609
Pink Weddings Ltd
Celebrating 7 years of gay wedding planning and campaigning for same-sex couples
www.pinkweddings.biz
The Gay Wedding Show Ltd
Celebrates its 6th year in civil partnerships exhibitions
www.gayweddingshow.co.uk

TV Polari
TVPolari is not just a single product but a package of gay orientated products and services brought directly to the consumer at the touch of a button.
Today TVPolari is in it's infancy but growing rapidly. We are working with different teams within the gay community all over the UK and internationally to try and source the greatest gay content produced.
Working to provide the viewer with a network of channels that everyone cares to watch.
Visit http://www.tvpolari.com

IPTV
Internet Protocol TV.
Works through your TV with a set-top box. Accessing channels, subscription, services and programmes on demand, also interactivity. It was available to more than 200 million households by 2005 and expected to reach 400 million households by 2010

Interviews and stuff

2009-07-20T01:38:00.000-07:00

Well, no day goes without a bang in the Gay TV world, On Friday we went along to an undisclosed Address in Surrey to Interview Gino Meriano at his country mansion, WOW that guy even had his own pool. (I did ask to be invited to the Pool party but got told MAYBY BABY, so that meant a no) What a great interview and I learnt a lot from him about Gay weddings and what I did not know was he has even written a book about Civil partnerships, taboos and how it is done etc etc. Worth reading, I can tell you. Gino if you never already knew is the first guy to have a civil partnership and the first shall we say Wedding co ordinator for Gay weddings, his website is www.pinkweddings.biz worth a look at and you can get some tips from there as well. What I was proud to say is TV Polari is the media sponsor for the Gay wedding shows that happen all over the country. We have been at the last 2 and are a sponsor at the next ones and will be filming in Brighton.

Well Adrian Doughty in his fine wedding dress, erm I mean suit done a fantastic interview and you know what, it was as if it was live. Only one cut from the Director and the rest just flowed out of the mouth. Gino really knows what he is talking about when it comes to Gay weddings and is the authority I would say on the subject. Unlike other fakes I could mention but wont. You know who you are boys!!!!!

You can see the interview on TV Polari the worlds first gay IPTV Network for the LGBT bods.

Anyway it was an absolute pleasure interviwing the god of Civil Partnerships and I hear that Gino's empire might be expanding very soon. WATCH THIS SPACE.

www.tvpolari.com to see the last gay Wedding shows.

Bye for now, just off to a meeting with Perky Piglet who will be with us in Brighton Pride this year.

Interview with Lance Fougere of TV Polari

2009-07-14T09:54:00.001-07:00

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Lance Fougere of gay television network TV Polari filming in Andorra

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TV Polari Gay Television Network
TV Polari has entertaining and original content

TV Polari has entertaining and original content

TV Polari is the exciting gay television network with a big personality all of its own. Still very young in television terms, TV Polari is gay television that has developed real teeth in its infancy with dynamic channels like Gabbi World (featuring the hilarious ‘Gabbi’), Lifestyle, PlanitGay Travel, and the very popular TLA movie channel.

Mothership Blog spoke to Lance Fougere (just love how that name rolls off the tongue!) who is one of TV Polari’s owners.

How did the TV Polari gay television network come about?

Gabbi of Gabbi World - next week she wears a ski suit to the beach...

Gabbi of Gabbi World - next week she wears a ski suit to the beach...

I have a background in TV, and also in the ‘Gay World’, and I helped develop a new television channel on Sky called TV Travel Shop which was revolutionary in the way it presented holidays. I was also instrumental in opening Village Soho for the first time - which was the very first gay bar with clear windows! I knew Jim Deans who is the owner of the broadcasting company Global Digital Broadcast, and he was looking for a business partner for a new gay television network and I fitted the bill.

Who owns TV Polari?

50% Global Digital Broadcast (GDB), 25% me and 25% Adrian Doughty who is a colleague I met through setting up a charity. The 50% ownership by GDB is great because we get the support of the ‘mother’ company, whilst being small enough to move faster than our rivals. Others supporters include our Business Director James Duffy, and Justin Beavis.

Why the name TV Polari?

I didn’t want a name that had the word ‘gay’ in it, so having been a supporter of LGBT history month I was familiar with the word ‘polari’ comes from the italian word polare ‘to talk’. Polari was a form of language between gay men who were oppressed and dates right back to the 19th Century.

How do you watch TV Polari?

You can TV Polari at TVpolari.com or, if you have the right set top box on Something TV. We’ll be reaching out to a larger cable audience soon.

When did TV Polari launch?

2007

Is running a gay TV network different to what you expected?

Gay TV is more of a challenge than I thought it would be, but I enjoy a challenge so I’m very happy with that. I am also surprised that I’m working in the gay business world again, as I’ve done that for so long but the laws of attraction drew me back into it!

What has been your best moment?

TV Polari gay television network

TV Polari gay television network

Every week has its good moments, but the best by far was when we had content up on our gay television network for the first time. I had been given a channel and then told to go out and make it happen. Well with the excitement I thought “no problem”, but what I did not know was that content costs money and it costs a lot. So when we went on the beg and borrow route and managed to get 100 hours of content in, That was my best moment, seeing it all up there on a screen and more importantly on a TV screen.

What has been your worst moment?

The worst moment was in the early days when we went to our first customer with our set top box and our TV to do a demonstration and GDB who run the Distribution network had decided to do maintenance and not tell us. So we were at the clients and had nothing to show, so we had to show them another Channel instead. But hey, these things happen. We are on the brink of a new way we watch TV and content so you have to accept it.

What’s your favourite part of running a gay television network?

Erm, it’s when I see people get as excited as I do about gay television, and see the bigger picture. When we get new clients on board is great, and now we have a production company, I love going on location and trying something new.

What do you find most difficult and why?

Technology and explaining it to people as it’s new and hard to understand so to tell them they can watch TV Polari on their TV via the internet is difficult.

What are your dreams for TV Polari?

I would like TV Polari to be like the BBC for gay consumers, and get other exciting ideas onboard so we can open it up as the gay people’s television network that offers different content for everyone.

What have you got coming up on your gay TV network?

Films like Another Gay Movie on the TLA Movie Channel on TV Polari

Films like Another Gay Movie on the TLA Movie Channel on TV Polari

Ah well we have just launched the TLA movie channel and that is going great, and in the next few weeks we will have a new Civil partnership channel called Together TV, which will be much better than Wedding TV as we have lots more to offer and not just Gay weddings on that channel. We also have a lot of new shows on the way from Screamers starring Ray Jordan, and Destinations - a new gay Travel show, and of course the New Gay Travel Channel Planitgay TV, bit like sky travel but for LGBT bods.

Lance Fougere spoke to David Abrehart

Watch TV Polari at TVPolari.com

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New TLA Movie channel on TV Polari

2009-07-04T02:03:00.000-07:00

Hi All just wanted to let you know about the new TLA MOvie channel on the TV Polari network. THis is the only Gay Movie channel you can get on line and on TV.

Some titles are

Cowboys & Angels

Locked Up

The Trip

The House Boy

Ethan Mao

Rock Haven

Slutty Summer

Everyone

Cut Sleeve Boys

Girls Will Be Girls

Naked Boys Singing

Love Sick

I Dreamt Under The Water

Loveing Annabelle

Coffee Date

Bear Club

Eating out 2

The Bubble

Lilith

A Four Letter Word

Psyco Beach Party

No Regret

The Perfect Crime

Ity Bitty Titty Committee

P.S. Your Cat is Dead

20 Centimeters

Boy Culture

Reagular Guys

Puccini for Beginers

Socket

That Man Peter Berlin

Dorian Blues

Another Gay Movie

Loggerheads

Adam & Steve

The Dying Gaul

Back again Gay TV at its best

2009-07-03T04:18:00.000-07:00

Well I am so sorry that you have had to wait such a long time but we have been so busy and I have not had time to do my blog, anyway I am going to publish a recent interview I did and I will get back to this on a near daily basis.

Here it is

1) Who thought of the idea for a gay TV network

Having been in the Gay world since the first opening of Village Soho, which was the first open window bar. i.e. we could see out and people could see in, I did many things from then in the early 90’s and one was to work with a new channel on Sky called TV Travel Shop. This opened up a new era in TV and travel where you could see the resort and the hotel you were going to on the TV and not just in a brochure. I was fundamental setting this up so knew about TV and starting a new TV channel. Jim Deans the owner of Global Digital Broadcast met with me in Sandringham, we hit it off, and he proposed that I was the right person for the job being in the “Gay World” knowing many people and my background in TV. Therefore, he was looking for a Business partner in this area and we became Partners.

2) Who owns TV POLARI?

When Jim Deans offered me the partnership I knew it was a mighty job and I could not do it alone, it took 70 people to start TV Travel shop then 450 call centre staff so I needed another person that knew me and what I could do. Adrian Doughty was a new introduction to me and we met through starting a charity up so I knew the person was sound, straight but sound. Therefore, I asked him if he wanted to “learn a new trade” lol and go into partnership with me. He agreed and today GDB owns 50% of TVPolari and I together with Adrian own the other 50%. This means that we have support from the Mother Company and we move quicker and better than other channels in the network. Other people came along Like James Duffy our Business Director and Justin Beavis to name only a few.

3) Why the name TV Polari

I did not want Gay TV or anything that had Gay in it as we have enough of that in our life’s. So having lived in Italy and being a supporter of LGBT history month we came up with Polari, which in Italian/Latin means to converse and it was the Gay talk from old days when Gay men were oppressed. So I thought we would bring it back and make it something we all understood and young gay people would learn.

4) How can you watch TV Polari?

You can watch TVPolari either via your set top box on Something TV or as we step into a new age, on your pc on www.tvpolari.com we also go out on a few other networks and soon will be going onto a large cable audience.

5) When did TV Polari launch?

2007

6) How is running TV Polari different to what you expected?

Well I knew it was going to be a challenge but I enjoy that. I never thought I would be into the Gay world of business again as I have been there, done that, and wanted to do something else. But it is the Law of attraction and so I came back.

7) What has been your best moment?

The Best moment so far as each week has its good moments must have been when we had content and then when we had our first paying advertiser. That was such a great moment as its like running a restaurant and having no food.

8) what has been your worst moment? (please don't say mothership tv!)

(Not Mothership Tv lol, as we will come back to that as its such a good idea but if you’re not ready then it’s not to be.)The worst moment was in the early days when we went to our first customer with our set top box and our TV to do a demonstration and GDB who run the Distribution network had decided to do maintenance and not tell us. So we were at the clients and had nothing to show, so we had to show them another Channel instead. But hey, these things happen. We are on the brink of a new way we watch TV and content so you have to accept it.

9) what's your favorite part of running a gay TV network

Erm, it’s when I see people get as excited as I do and see the bigger picture. When we get new clients on board and now we have the production company, it’s going on location and trying something new.

10) What do you find most difficult and why?

Technology and explaining it to people as it’s new and hard to understand so to tell them they can watch TV Polari on their TV via the internet is difficult.

11) What are your dreams for TV POLARI?

I would like TV Polari to be like the BBC of the World but for Gay consumers, so I do not wish to Run it and have a say or the final word, as there are many different types of gender out there and people like different things. So we need to get other ideas on board to open it up as a Peoples channel to offer different content for everyone.

12) What have you got coming up?

Ah well we have just launched the movie channel and that is going great, and in the next few weeks we will have a new Civil partnership channel called Together TV, which will be much better than Wedding TV as we have lots more to offer and not just Gay weddings on that channel. We also have a lot of new shows on the way from Screamers starring Ray Jordan and Destinations a new gay Travel show and of course the New Gay Travel Channel Planitgay TV, bit like sky travel but for LGBT bods.

A week in Politics goes fast, you should be in TV dear

2008-10-02T02:36:00.000-07:00

B4 you know it, time goes by and we are doing something different everyday and bang, you forgot to write your blog.

Well after a manic weekend my business partner & I attended the Philadelphia press launch of Cezanne & Beyond at the National Gallery. This is something that will be at the Philadelphia Museum that begins in February. It was amazing, I never knew the difference from Modern art to historic art and I tell you what I sure do now. Anyway the reason we were there was the wonderful Kristel Valaydon from www.visitpa.com is arranging for TVPolari to go and film a show of wish you were Queer with the wonderful Gabbi and crew. So watch out for that one.

Then it was onto film Mike Arlen who must be the most wonderful and funny man on earth. he told us tales that would not be told at a dinner party about Elton John when he was younger, Rod Stewart in the old days throwing plates around, The Beetles and lots more. You will have to wait for that show to come out in the new year for all the gossip and what gossip it will be.

Wednesday was a full event, we started in Brighton for production meetings with the wonderful Jamie Flawn and his crew. Then right back up to London for a business meeting with 90 gay professional people at a secret event called Iliad (well trust me to let the cat out of the bag) Not so secret now is it. well its not the gay mafia so we are ok on that front.

What a work filled weekend it was, I started writing scripts for the new show Wish you were queer, a gay television show based around the original but much better and for LGBT bods and suchlike.

Monday I hurt my back and had to cancel an important meeting with Gino from the Gay Business Association that in my mind is very important and Gino has done a great job in turning it around and making it what it is today. Gino also has a company called Pink Weddings and runs the Gay wedding show that TVPolari will be at in November filming and reporting great stuff.

This week I am off to the Iris gay film festival in Cardiff so I will give you a full report on Russel T Davis and H from Steps and what they get up to. TTFN x

Death for gays

2008-09-21T01:49:00.000-07:00

Did you know that in 7 countries around the world, 7 countries give you the death penalty for being Gay and 76 countries put you in prison. This world has got a long way to go in my view. That's why I was happy to be invited to the International conference on LGBT human rights next year in Copenhagen. this runs from the 27th to the 29th July.

More importantly I wanted to let you know that we had Andorra confirm that they would love to be part of the new show "Wish you were Queer" that TVPolari are working on right now with their production company Blue Ruby Productions.

I met a great guy yesterday as well called Gino Meriano from Pink Weddings who just happens to be the chair at the uk's Gay Business Association. What a great guy and look out for his Gay wedding shows coming to a city near you soon.

Its a day with the family today and I have already done 45 Min's on the Wii today and so far in 2 weeks have lost 8 ponds, not in currency but weight. So a pat on the back to me.

Look out for my other directors Blog James Duffy who will be sharing what his life is like with TVPolari and he reminds me all the time we are the first ever International Gay Network. Me I would rather be on holiday. Ciao for now

New Channels going Live

2008-09-20T07:20:00.000-07:00

Well Guys and girls and any Transgender people out there, what a manic few weeks I have had at TVPolari.

We have now started the first ever Gay Travel channel and its called The Polari Travel Channel and our two new directors Mike Brady and his partner Graham Andrews. We will be filming all around the world and making travel shows just for the LGBT community. So check it out and please remember to give us feedback so we give you your TV your way. Watch out for the new Wish you were Queer programme in the new year.

We took our wonderful Gabbi to the Plasa08 show in Earls court and she created a massive stir there and we all had such a great time. Her eyes did wonder and sometimes she was not on the ball so to speak as there were so many wannabe DJ's walking around.

Our Monthly news roundup show will be on air shortly and this will give you updates on a monthly basis of whats gone on in our world and any other great things that are going to be happening over the coming months. Watch out the gay newsboys are about.

Then it was on to the IGLCC for a great session with business owners and important people in the gay world who all want to make a difference.

A massive shout out to Sue Sanders from the LGBT history month who was on fine form and we are very proud to be the media sponsor for the LGBT History Month 2009.

A new and very exciting channel went online in the network this month and it was Gabbiworld which will show you everything from the gay scene you ever wanted, so watch out for Gabbi and her crew at a bar or club near you soon.

That's all for now and I will give you a celeb update in my next blog.

TVPolari days

2008-09-03T05:56:00.001-07:00

What a manic couple of days it has been. The new camera turned up for TVPolari Travel channel, the only thing it does not do by the looks of it is fly. Well thank god I have my little camera man that does all of that stuff. Had a meeting with Gabbi from gabbiworld who are having a channel on the TVPolari network, he or does one say “She” when talking about a drag queen? I will have to ask gabbi when I next see Him/her J the channel goes live next week so watch out for that one, Gabbi is very funny and a natural in front of the screen.

Next, we are preparing for the new tour with mother-ship.com. They have a fantastic website and they are organizing amateur strip nights around the country and TVPolari will now be the media partner for them. So watch this space.

This is how bizarre my life can be some days; I get a phone call from the local Nightclub/bar asking for anything signed from the rich and famous. That ruled me out straightaway but working on both at the moment. So a few phone calls later we have Chico from the Xfactor’s pants, Freemasons signed Cd and wait for it some jeans from the cast of footballer’s wife’s. Oh, wow to know people. A full day tomorrow, so see you soon.

Life & Times of TVPolari

2008-09-01T00:56:00.000-07:00

My Weekend so far... Having got back from filming in Cyprus in the Med this week I had 300 emails to go through so Saturday was fun to say the least. The more I email out the more comes back (Very strange). I spent 1.5 hours talking to my Finance Director on Skype about the new Camera we have got and what new shows we are doing. Then it was off to some launch of a new business that makes clothes. Fashion not really my thing but its free drink and I get to put it about a bit.

Sunday was very quite as the drink was plenty the night b4 and I tend to take Sundays off unless there is work or a shoot going down.

My week ahead at TVPolari will be very exciting so keep up to date.

Boys Blog

2008-06-04T01:27:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

My first ever attempt at blogging, so forgive the rubbish spelling as we go on this journey together. I started TVPolari with my business partner Adrian back in September 2007 with the help of our parent company Global Digital broadcast. what I want to do here is create the journey for everyone to see so when we get bigger we can look back and see how gay telivision has evolved.

Yesterday was great fun after going to a meeting that I thought was in North west London it turned out it was in some different place alltogether. So we arrived late.

The company is a perfume company that want to advertise with tvpolari and do a campaign for the face of tvpolari. (More on that some other time) Anyway the deal was done and watch out for the adverts.