From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10044 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, November 1 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- #1 Reason your skin wrinkles (hint: it's not age) ["South Beach Skin" Subject: #1 Reason your skin wrinkles (hint: it's not age) #1 Reason your skin wrinkles (hint: it's not age) http://south-beach.rest/FVlLkjQM3JsrpCR2i9Ud2_Bdf3riU8s6I0b1z21TYNXcRouFhw http://south-beach.rest/xVje3oW_hU7szrGkLzRyC2-v-1OcsxFmKGqmWowFAEgwdGvb4Q n March 9, the church announced it had put the Monitor Channel up for sale and would shut it down by June 15 if no buyer was found for the cable service; that same day, church leader Harvey W. Woodbwho had been a supporter of the media expansionbresigned as chairman. WQTV would not be affected and was declared to not be for sale. The next month, the majority of the channel's 400-person workforce was laid off, with a small staff kept on to wind down operations; the cost of shutting down the channel was quoted at $45 million (equivalent to $76 million in 2021 dollars). Several last-minute sale talks were held in the two months that followed, but none bore fruit. The last task confronting the church as it wound down its once-expansive media operation was to sell the Boston television station that had fueled its boom. The church announced on May 16, citing continued fiscal pressures, that it would seek to sell WQTV. With much of the equipment used in the Monitor Channel operation being sold separately and a poor signal from the Prudential Tower, added to a competitive market with many existing stations, the station would face some difficulty in its immediate future. As the Monitor Channel shut down on June 28, WQTV continued to air archive programming from the service. Continued litigation over the $97 million bequest, promoted by the two potential California beneficiaries, led the church to auction off equipment and the Monitor Channel transponder: the latter fetched $14.2 million (equivalent to $24 million in 2021 dollars), being sold at a profit to the Discovery Channel, while another $4 million (equivalent to $6.76 million in 2021 dollars) was raised from the equipment. By early May 1993, two bidders presented proposals to ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10044 ***********************************************