Premiering March 1 at 8:00pm ET/PT, OUT TV brings you a new reality competition series, “Blush: The Search for the Next Great Makeup Artist,” where contestants compete for a contract as a professional artist with Max Factor, a cash prize of $100,000 and the opportunity to be the makeup artist for an upcoming InStyle photo [...]

I just wanted to let everyone know that we have just acquired a number of new films for OUTtv to add to our ever growing library of the best gay and lesbian films. Our 9:00 showings continue to lead our ratings almost every night. We are so pleased with the audience feedback and assure you [...]

As many people know, OUTtv has had many problems with Shaw Cable, the nation’s second largest cable service, since launching as PrideVision in 2001. Our most recent problems came from changes in channel placement and other marketing of OUTtv by Shaw which we felt was unfair and harmful to OUTtv. A complaint was filed with [...]

The CRTC released its decision on the proposed changes to the Broadcasting Act today. Great news for OUTtv! The CRTC agreed with many of the arguments that Chair Joy MacPhail and I made at the hearings in Ottawa last April. OUTtv will retain our mandatory carriage, genre exclusivity and other license conditions. In addition, the [...]

OK. I admit it. I am completely addicted to all news matters relating to the US election. (When I am not watching OUTtv) I just can’t stop reading the news, tracking the polls and waiting for the “October Surprise” that the GOP pulls out of their bad of tricks. However as each day passes………dare I [...]

I wrote on my Blog recently about the comments I made at the recent Queer Film Festival in Vancouver about Shaw Communications treatment of OUTtv.  I also commented that this is a relevant election issue as it relates to Steven Harper’s relationship to Jim Shaw Jr. Please click here to read the PDF article. I [...]

At the Closing Gala of the Queer Film Festival I made some comments in my awards presentation speech regarding the issues between OUTtv and Shaw Communications. In addition, I also made some general comments that these issues relate to the current federal election as well, and in particular I expressed specific concerns about a potential [...]

OUTtv has currently started producing an exciting look behind the scenes of the current “Mr. Gay Canada” competition in Whister. The final show will probably be a 3 part program that goes into the behind-the-scenes of the competition in a style simiar to “How Far Will You Go.” This competition is different as it puts [...]

I was very pleased to see all the responses we have been getting on the Blog section of the site as well as directly from people who are more interested in what is happening at OUTtv. When we re-built the website last year one of our goals was to create more interaction with our audience [...]

It’s that time of year again! After we launch our Fall schedule it is time to start looking at new show ideas for 2009. We are trying really hard at OUTtv to get members of the Community and the Production community together to make some great content. Over the summer we have had some very [...]

Our Fall Preview Show has just hit the air this week on OUTtv. I am confident to say it is our best show ever because we have the best programming we have ever had! Every year the Fall Preview show is hugely popular and this year should be no exception. Great new series and movies [...]

Congratulations to the Queer Film Festival here in Vancouver! They just wrapped their 20th Anniversary Festival. We were very proud at OUTtv to be a sponsor of the Festival and to provide some films and, of course, the HOT PINK SHORTS award winner Claudia Morgado Escanilla for “No Bikini” along with People’s Choice Award Winner [...]

I had the pleasure of reviewing our Fall Preview Show today. It goes on the Network tomorrow and is by far our best presentation ever. One of the really exciting things – apart from the return of “Queer as Folk”, “Bad Girls” and some great new programs is that we are now working directly with [...]

One of the great things we did when we were shooting “How Far Will You Go” is put together some interviews from the guys on Community interest topics such as homophobia and AIDs as a public service. I really have to give credit to Mel Siteman for taking the initiative to get these issues out. [...]

One our commitments this year at OUTtv is to add more new movies to the schedule. Our new Fall line-up will include more Indie Films, a new season of Hot Pink Shorts and other indie movie highlights on our indie Thursday night. We will also have more premium movies for Saturday and Sunday nights. Movies [...]

If you are keeping an eye on our website these days you will start seeing loads more video content. Hopefully you will notice the new tabbed server at the front of the site and the video players on the content pages of our individual show sites. In addition, you will start to see videos published through [...]

So there we were. We knew the competition was happening and knew that it was interesting for us but it really wasn’t set up in a way that would make for “traditional” television with a contest reveal after a number of preliminary episodes like “American Idol” or “The Bachelor.” Still, we had to do it. [...]

On Canada Day we premiered our new OUTtv program, “How Far Will You Go?” This is a program that we are very excited about here at OUTtv. I am also very proud to act as an Executive Producer on the show along with Bill Allman. We are thrilled at how the show turned out and hope [...]

Over the past few days I have been doing some media interviews with papers such as Xtra and other media about the complaint that we filed at the CRTC regarding Shaw cable.    I am not going to use my Blog to discuss the complaint.   I encourage you to go to www.xtra.ca to see the initial [...]

The CRTC Hearings in the proposed changes to the Broadcasting Act started today in Ottawa.  OUTtv will appear on the 24th of April.  I will be going with Joy MacPhail to make our presentation. I promised in an earlier post that I would further discuss my issues with the positions taken by one of the countries [...]