Nine months after selling them Out and Advocate magazines, PlanetOut has been acquired by Regent Media. Regent’s purchase of Gay.com and the other remaining PlanetOut assets completes the years-long death spiral of the once-great LGBT media company. It appears that all the former PlanetOut properties will continue to operate under the new combined company. Regent Entertainment Media, publishers of The …
Read More »Tag Archives: Here TV
New Owner Of Advocate & Out Magazines Tears Up Donation Check For Obama
Paul Colichman, the new owner of The Advocate and Out Magazine, tells Page 6 about watching Barack Obama at last week’s Saddleback Forum. “I’m a die-hard Democrat,” he tells Page Six. But Colichman was also a die-hard Hillary Clinton supporter. He and Harry Thomason produced a documentary, “The Hunting of the President: The 10-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary …
Read More »Out & Advocate Sold To Here Networks
PlanetOut has announced the sale of Out and Advocate magazines to New York-based gay cable channel Here Networks for $6M cash, payable in monthly installments beginning this month. PlanetOut will retain Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, a mere fraction of its formerly sprawling holdings which included adult magazine publisher Spec Pubs and gay cruise company RSVP. Last month PlanetOut put Expedia in …
Read More »The Ben And Dave Show
Last month I subscribed to Here TV, the other gay cable network, and I’ve been enjoying The Ben & Dave Show, which is sort of a gay version of the live TV feed Howard Stern does. Audio is definitely NSFW. The new Ben And Dave season begins tomorrow.
Read More »