I found an article worth checking out...

[AllenGlines]

It's called "Should there be a Mormon television network?"

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Click here to view the article!

[miztrniceguy]

i didnt view the article, but i dont know why there shouldn't be one...there already is. there are channels for people of other faiths, also.

[Wingnut]

You "found" an article worth checking out? How about "Hey, I wrote this article, and I want all of you to read it!"?

[john doe]

Uh, KBYU, BYUTV, BYUI. Looks to me like there already is a Mormon network. Or are you just looking for more traffic to your page?

[pam]

All this has done for me is make me aware of what not to read. Someone that falsely pushes their own work loses credibility with me.

[ploomf]

Author David Wood did a blog on how to alienate readers. This was the #1 way. People really are smart enough to figure out what you're doing.

[Mahone]

Author David Wood did a blog on how to alienate readers. This was the #1 way. People really are smart enough to figure out what you're doing.

Or the author is stupid enough to use his real name on the forum he is claiming to have just "discovered" the article.

Either way, he doesn't care. The reason they post the links here is not so much that people will click on it and read the article (though that does help him) but for search engine optimisation. Search engine algorithmes work primarily using links. The more links pointing towards a webpage or website, the higher it ranks in search engines - overall this is the ultimate reason that people spam message boards with links. No first time poster should be allowed to have a link in his post - but that's just how I would do it.

Edited July 12, 2009 by Mahone

[Seanette]

I've been on other forums where someone has to have a certain post count (it varies by board) before links are allowed. Seems to eliminate this sort of problem, since most spammers aren't going to put out the effort to achieve the post count.

[Kenny]

What I would like to see is a channel that screens all the most popular movies but first edits out all the profanity and sexual content.

I like for example Alien and Aliens; I taped them off the BBC when the BBC used to never screen bad language. It was taped on the old Betamax recorders. But once I'd worn that tape recorder out VHS was the only format available. BBC screened Alien and Aliens again so I taped them onto VHS.

I remember a lesson in priesthood once where the teacher used as an example the BBC and the record Relax. At the time this record came out both the BBC and the church were in unison that the content of this record was unsuitable for them to broadcast it and banned it from all their channels, radio and TV. Some years later, the teacher demonstrated, the Relax record was played most days somewhere across the BBC network. The churches position was unchanged.

So it was no surprised in hindsight that my favourite movies had become unwatchable because of the bad language that was now not edited out.

[Mahone]

What I would like to see is a channel that screens all the most popular movies but first edits out all the profanity and sexual content.

I like for example Alien and Aliens; I taped them off the BBC when the BBC used to never screen bad language. It was taped on the old Betamax recorders. But once I'd worn that tape recorder out VHS was the only format available. BBC screened Alien and Aliens again so I taped them onto VHS.

I remember a lesson in priesthood once where the teacher used as an example the BBC and the record Relax. At the time this record came out both the BBC and the church were in unison that the content of this record was unsuitable for them to broadcast it and banned it from all their channels, radio and TV. Some years later, the teacher demonstrated, the Relax record was played most days somewhere across the BBC network. The churches position was unchanged.

So it was no surprised in hindsight that my favourite movies had become unwatchable because of the bad language that was now not edited out.

I read in the paper once about a store in Utah which did exactly this with their DVDs. I don't know if there is any UK equivalent. There is a surprising amount of non-lds who also dislike the bad language broadcast across our airwaves/on standard movie DVDs - I think they would get a decent amount of custom.

Edited July 12, 2009 by Mahone

[Prodigal_Son]

Regardless of Glines' lame attempt here, the fact of the matter is that TV is all about $$$. And having "thousands of people" tuning in "around the world" is laughably pathetic. What company is going to pay the desperately-needed advertising revenues to a viewing market so piddly?

Don't get me wrong - it'd be wonderful to have. But it can't support itself. We're a peculiar people because wholesome, uplifting, and edifying entertainment is not what people want - even a lot of Saints.

[talisyn]

I read in the paper once about a store in Utah which did exactly this with their DVDs. I don't know if there is any UK equivalent. There is a surprising amount of non-lds who also dislike the bad language broadcast across our airwaves/on standard movie DVDs - I think they would get a decent amount of custom.

I think they got sued by the movie studios because they were 'changing content'. Apparently to some people foul language is integral to the plot....idiots

If there is an official LDS church channel I hope it's better than what I get with KBYU on Direct TV. Occasionally there are good programs, but you have to be able to stay awake for them I'm not talking about production values or splashy effects, what I'd like to see is better writing lol.

Edited July 12, 2009 by talisyn
Don't want people to think I don't like wholesomeness :p

[jameslentz]

Here is a DVD player that will censor a movie as it plays and it says it has several levels of censorship...I don't think I would pay for it but it sounds like a good idea.

DeseretBook.com - ClearPlay DVD Player