QubeTV--the conservatives answer to YouTube

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | salena zito

[GOPwatch]

Web media upstart caters to conservatives By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Today, Gerow and longtime associate Jeff Lord officially began QubeTV.TV -- a unique video, photograph and social network designed especially for conservatives.

Gerow and Lord have deep conservative roots: Both worked in the Reagan administration, Lord as White House political director and Gerow as an aide in Ronald Reagan's campaigns starting in 1976.

Both consider QubeTV to be the conservatives' answer to YouTube, a popular free video-sharing Web site founded in February 2005 which enables users to upload, view and share video clips. Last fall, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.

[donna]

http://qubetv.tv/

[highball]

What’s liberal about YouTube? There are lots of great conservative pieces there. The continual exchange of information seems pretty conservative to me.

Ghetto-izing conservative ideas by isolating them in a specific site seems counter-productive to me - we need them out in the mainstream. Conservative ideas are winning ones, but not if we fail to communicate them.

[Al Gator]

Oh, I don’t know, lots of conservative stuff gets banned by Youtube.

Ask Michele Malkin.

[discostu]

Is it going to have old Gong Show and Muppet Show clips? That’s most of what I watch on YouTube.

[Free Vulcan]

interesting.

[sbMKE]

Old media mindsets at play here - trying to set up a niche “narrowcasted” channel a la cabletv figuring they can offer advertisers a targeted demographic.

Won’t work because web advertising relies on high reach at some levels to be effective. When you’re buying ad impressions at CPM (cost-per-1,000) level, a few k won’t get you much in terms of visits and conversions.

DOA.

[relictele]

Us conservatives who grew up in the Columbus OH area during the mid 70s still get involuntary shudders whenever the word QUBE is used. It was the first interactive cable TV system and got a lot of good press but ultimately failed.

Imagine my surprise 15 years later when the same vintage equipment was still in use by the local cable monopoly. Then DirecTV entered the picture and suddenly if by magic the cables found that they DID have the money for massive upgrades to their channel capacity, remotes, set-top boxes, etc.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the link. Small amount of videos so far. Good idea. Especially anything banned by pc crowd.

[Rodney King]

I hope its better than the embarassing conservative answer to wikipedia. But then again, I don’t see what the problem is with youtube. You can pretty much put up whatever you want.

[EndWelfareToday]

Well... I hate to say it but I'm not impressed. One thing I dislike more than a whiny a** liberal is a whiny a** wanna be Conservative. That's one reason I've stopped watching and listening to Hannity. I doubt qubetv will go far. First of all I can't load my own material but rather need to comment on what qubetv staff wants to spoon feed me and that which they wish to spoon feed me doesn't deal with Conservative issues. All it does from what I've been able to see is whine about liberals. We all know what a bunch of sorry a** people liberals are. Get qubetv to start posting a Conservative agenda instead of moving us into a cut down contest with liberals and it may make it.

Of course as always this is just my humble opinion.

[Borges]

Ghetto-izing conservative ideas by isolating them in a specific site seems counter-productive to me - we need them out in the mainstream. Conservative ideas are winning ones, but not if we fail to communicate them.

Totally agreed.

[Yo-Yo]

I wonder if Time-Warner still owns the rights to the name “Qube.”

[longtermmemmory]

The issue is we need to teach MORE people how to do you tube.

They can not ban all conservatives.

[donna]

What’s liberal about YouTube?

Maybe you didn't hear, they pulled Michelle Malkin's stuff.

Why wouldn't banned conservatives start a new site?

[highball]

If Malkin didn’t feel the need to abandon YouTube, why should other conservatives?

We’ll never win hearts and minds if we insist on always playing to a sympathetic audience.

[donna]

There is no need to abandon YouTube - now there is a place to show the stuff Youtube bans.

You can’t win hearts and minds if your stuff gets pulled. Don’t you think liberals will be at QubeTV looking at the stuff, too?

[tsowellfan]

I think it’s a great idea especially a place to save our videos BUT we dont want to give up a TOP 10 website and hand it to liberals. Big mistake to let the democrats rule YouTube. We cant be just singing to the choir or only the choir will give us their votes. Conversion is what we need to be doing.

http://www.youtube.com/CafeNetAmerica

[tsowellfan]

I agree highball

Ghetto-izing conservative ideas by isolating them in a specific site seems counter-productive to me - we need them out in the mainstream. Conservative ideas are winning ones, but not if we fail to communicate them.

http://www.youtube.com/CafeNetAmerica

[pulaskibush]

Just post conservative videos to as many outlets as possible. Besides youtube, there’s putfile, myspace, facebook, and probably a few thousand other places.