including Queer as Folk ¨ ¨ debates should Mondays on homophobia, gay unions, gay parenting - among others - and Thursday there will be a talk show. Four days a week would send hot movies after midnight.
Houzelot said at least 50% of the programming would be devoted to topics of direct interest to gay guys or girls.
"Perhaps we differ in how we address the subjects as well as the issues we address," he said."Clearly, addressed at first instance to gays, but cover more than that and I hope that appeals to a more diverse audience."
Half a year after its launch Pink TV has about 50,000 subscribers, responsibilities expected that this figure reaches 150.00 paid in three years with what the company alanzaria its financial equilibrium. Its principal owners are the Gauls audiovisual groups TF1, Canal Plus, M6 and Pascal Houzelot. The contents of the Channel are based on magazines, news and movies, with 23.5 of these have to be French and European as a condition of the Supreme Audiovisual Council (CSA) to function. To subscribe to it as platform-independent option where it gives off has to be paid 9 euros per month.
In 2005, Pink TV has been allowed by the French authorities to give part of its contents in open-19'00 to 20'00 hours throughout the week, as well as from 12'00 to 14'00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. The channel, which is captured by satellite on Eutelsat-Hot Bird, is composed of news programs, movies, magazines and series, as the British ¨French and Saunders ¨ or new production Colombian ¨ Tele Rodrigo¨, whose argument is a man who pretends to be gay to participate in reality shows. Also offers programs in fashion, politics and places of interviews with people in the news, whether they are politicians, artists or people in the world of culture.
2007 - With the success of Pink TV, France's first gay television has plans to launch a second satellite dedicated only to the broadcasting of films gay xxx.
At present it is unknown whether they reached subscriber numbers that they claim, but the truth ess has become a channel for European television, for those who are curious (although everything is in french) I leave the Facebook and the direction web channel, which also functions as a portal.
