Adelphia Considers Adding Adult Channels I am sorry Adelphia feels the need to carry this trash to make ends meet. It is indeed sad when you feel you have to have hardcore porn to make ends meet. I will keep Adelphia, but I will definitely let them know my displeasure if they decide to do this. » www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,···,00.html
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  hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
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| LA Centre of the Vice industry I think its excellent. Those that want to take a moral stance on this do not have to watch it, Those that do can pay and put more money into Adelphia coffers which will benefit all Adelphia subscribers. Los Angeles being the center of the US vice industry will be extremely happy I am sure.
Hob
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|  |  cbyrdWhere's The Any Key?
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Murfreesboro, NC | Re: LA Centre of the Vice industry I agree. I wouldn't imagine the channels they would carry could be any worse than what's on Cinemax in the wee hours. It's a premium service that you have to pay for. Also, I would imagine they would only offer it with digital cable, so you can put that parental lock on your box to good use should you decide that you do want the channels but want to keep the kids away. Just remember, that stuff they show is how you got those kids in the first place 
You may not like it, but just like 90% of the other junk that comes out of the idiot box, if you don't want to watch it, change the channel, or better yet, turn it off.
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Colorado Springs, CO | Re: LA Centre of the Vice industry I agree, this would be an excellent choice. It will atleast give the subscribers a choice in programming. Since the programming will have to be ordered then I really dont see a problem with it. For example if hbo is not ordered you dont watch it, same thing applies here, if you dont like that programming, just dont order it.
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| | | I agree. If you don't like it don't order it!! It's about options and choice. Why the hell do you think we pay for 300 channels of nothing!! ha-ha Most people that bitch about it are hypocrites anyway. Sex sells and people like it! Plain and simple. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: LA Centre of the Vice industry Yeah, well drugs sell too, but that doesn't make them good. | |
| | | |  MacLeechThe one and onlyPremium
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kudos:3 | Re: LA Centre of the Vice industry said by ILOVELA2:
Yeah, well drugs sell too, but that doesn't make them good.
Unless its Viagra or maybe Vicodin. Hmmm, choices, choices.... | |
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kudos:1 | Re: LA Centre of the Vice industry lol | |
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| | |  sadowskiI Am My Own DoppelgangerPremium,MVM
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Buffalo, NY | You telling me there isn't tons of sex, violence and profanity on the "premium" channels that they don't hesitate to carry? "...on moral grounds." my arse!
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| | | | hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
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kudos:4 | Ilovela2 tried to play the addictive drug card when he said
"Yeah, well drugs sell too, but that doesn't make them good."
and precisely what does selling what I presume you mean illegal narcotics have to do with a cable television company providing legal television channels to adults who are willing to spend their hard earned money to pay for them. Some people like that sort of entertainment, others prefer the bland formulae of old soaps and even older comedy shows. The inbreed narrow minded thoughts of bigots have already spoiled the network channels, I hope that the freedom of choice might be allowed in the rest of the entertainment industry.
Complain as much as you want...I hope they match the number of complaints to the number of subscribers and let the majority win.
Hob
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| dboyleFair Is Cotton Candy And Pink ElephantsPremium
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San Diego, CA | LOL. I think it's hilarious considering the Rigas family was totally against adult channels. I don't care if they add them if it boosts revenue for Adelphia and service gets better because of it. Add all the porn ya want. 
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| | Jim K
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Columbus, OH |
From what I'm aware of there is no cable company offering hardcore porn... just softcore like Playboy. Very weird, "sex shows" that block out the sex.
I'd pay extra for hardcore, I can get soft core on many channels.
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| | OK, With Adelphia Offering Adult Entertainment When I was with Adelphia in Miami, they offered Playboy.
Maybe it has changed; but I don't see the big deal. Plenty of cable companies offer it now for a nightly fee. If they want to offer it at a premium fee, then what is the big deal. I agree HBO and Cinemax and Showtime offer just as bad, and I wouldn't say the wee hours. Sometimes I see X Rated shows listed at 11:00. That is wrong in my opinion, especially in the summer when alot of kids are up later.
Maybe Adelphia needs to change the timing of the programming, but I believe that is up to the individual channel. There is nothing wrong with offering Adult Entertainment. There is a simple rule to this: If you don't like it, then don't watch it. It isn't like every channel will be tuned to it. There are plenty of other channels with good, wholesome stuff on. | |
| | | Job 1 The only thing immoral would be not exploring additional sources of revenue. Thousands of employees, contractors and customers have a vested interest in Adelphia becoming a viable business. Getting Adelphia back on its feet is job 1 - how many objectionable programs can expose themselves on the head of a pin is irrelevant.
But if we were to draw up a list of programming to be deleted on "public well-being" grounds, I would be putting Rap "music", the various religious charlatans, the infomercial channels, anything showing gang sign language, and violent programming much higher on the delete list than whatever it is that offends the 700 Club. Ofc, the 700 Club itself would be high that list to begin with. | |
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|  Makes you say hmmmm.....
But it comes to pass that we were all being screwed by the Rigas family this whole time...
Ironic.
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| | Aceman0
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Colorado Springs, CO |  Re: Makes you say hmmmm.....
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kudos:1 | How the bible thumpers have fallen! | |
| | RR ConductorHappy 40th AmtrakPremium
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kudos:1 | Re: How the bible thumpers have fallen! Don't get me wrong, I think Adelphia has the right to carry this stuff, and people have a right to subscribe or not to subscribe to it. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with it, and not say something. That's my right too 
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Sherman Oaks, CA | LA Center of Vice... Just to make sure everyone does not think all of LA is full of vice...
The ACTUAL headquarters for the PORN industry is Van Nuys (few blocks north of me.)
Whats really cool is when you drive by a house with a lot of trucks and stuff in front, but there is sheeting surrounding the view to the back of the house and backyard - sure indicator that porn is being shot there! hehehehe
just a little info for my out of town friends... | |
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| Re: LA Center of Vice... The porn industry of America is located in the san fernando valley(where I live). TxnLA is right. Wherever there are movie trucks and a sheet they're shooting porn. Most of the porn movies are filmed South of Ventura blvd. in Encino or Sherman Oaks. It will only take a few minutes of driving before you find a house that's shooting a porn film on a weekday | |
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Sherman Oaks, CA | Re: LA Center of Vice... You mean north of Ventura... gotta love the porn! | |
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| | Morals.... They have morale? They rob people blind, yet they don't have enough morale to supply porn to the general public. This is called irony. | |
| | RR ConductorHappy 40th AmtrakPremium
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kudos:1 | Re: Morals.... Well, robbery and porn go hand in hand. One takes from the pocketbook, the other takes from the soul, just my opinion
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| | |  SkellBasherYes Sorto, I'll take my Prozac
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Niagara Falls, NY | Re: Morals.... Not to turn this into a morals discussion, but sex in an industry, and always been. As long as people have been on this planet, some form of sex for sale has existed. The only thing different from Cinemax at 4am and Vivid Video is the money the "actors" make and the quality of the camera work.
Kudos to Erkie for accepting this potential move, and as well as to the direction he's taking the company. As a stockholder, I don't care if they start showing porn or a 24 hour a day video feed of a church. As long as it generates revenue for the company, I say go for it. | |
| | | dboyleFair Is Cotton Candy And Pink ElephantsPremium
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San Diego, CA | said by ILOVELA2:
Well, robbery and porn go hand in hand. One takes from the pocketbook, the other takes from the soul, just my opinion
comparing soul and porn... this is getting really off-track, but I don't mind. I like to think of religion in this manner. If someone wants to be a religious and keep to themselves, all good and great. When someone tries to press their religion upon me is where I have problems. When people tell me I'm going to hell and I'm going to burn for not being of their "correct religion," I tell them, "If you're going to heaven, send me the other direction, because there is no way I want to deal with billions of people just like you." So maybe by watching porn, I'll goto hell, but at least I won't have to deal with the religious fanatics.
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| | | | RR ConductorHappy 40th AmtrakPremium
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| Re: Morals.... I really hope those comments weren't about me, because if they were, THEY were really off track. You know nothing about me, my beliefs, or my heritage. I NEVER look down on anybody, but from your post, you obviously look down on religion, sad. I could take them as a direct insult, should I? I hope not
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| | | | | dboyleFair Is Cotton Candy And Pink ElephantsPremium
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San Diego, CA | Re: Morals.... nah, my posts are targeted at those whom it directly applies. You never mentioned the above quote before. I wouldn't take an attack on religious fanatics as a personal attack. My post was in response to your post, but is not attacking you, just a related thought.
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Dunkirk, NY | porn rules adelphia is on the right track to straightening things out. | |
| | RR ConductorHappy 40th AmtrakPremium
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| Re: porn rules Yes they are, I just think it's sad they feel they need to carry hardcore porn to do it.
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| | | Hickerx2God Bless The U.S. Military
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Franklinville, NY | Re: porn rules said by ILOVELA2:
Yes they are, I just think it's sad they feel they need to carry hardcore porn to do it.
And why is it sad? It is a completely legal, optional service. If they were just "turning it on" so it was available to anybody with cable, you might have a valid point. It is a service that has to be subscribed to, therefor you statement is invalid. I don't get into porn, but I don't believe that adults who wish to watch it in their own homes are "sad" at all!
Adelphia is in business to make money. It's not that "they feel they need to carry hardcore porn", it's that it's a huge cash machine just sitting there for the taking. Once again, you're being a little idealistic. I'm sure we all wish porn didn't exist, but it's legal and it's lucrative here in the real world.
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kudos:1 | Re: porn rules Well, I'm entitled to my beliefs, and you all to yours, but I am not going to change mine to fit what is popular with the rest of the world. Like the song says "you've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything". I still say it's a sad day when companies feel they need to carry that stuff to survive, if that makes me unpopular with the rest of the world, then so be it. I don't belong to my faith for a popularity contest.
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| | | | | hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
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kudos:4 | Re: porn rules Ilovela2 continued his whining by posting
"I still say it's a sad day when companies feel they need to carry that stuff to survive, if that makes me unpopular with the rest of the world, then so be it."
I don't thin Adelphia needs to carry it to survive. They need to carry it because it is a cable service that people want.
You? Unpopular?
Hob
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kudos:1 | Re: porn rules Hob, a wise man once said "depart from man when thou perceivest not the words of wisdom in his lips", I take me leave of you.
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kudos:4 | Re: porn rules Ilovela2 scrawled
"depart from man when thou perceivest not the words of wisdom in his lips"
Proverbs 14:7
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kudos:1 | Re: porn rules LOL!!! | |
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| | Hardcore? What hardcore.... No Decision has been made, as far as I can tell, that would indicate that Adelphia's gonna carry HARCORE...(Anything Playboy offers is gonna be FAR from hardcore, definately Adult, but far from hardcore.)
And I personally would much rather my kids watch shows about Sex and Love, than the Violence, Theivery, and Murder which seems to pervade American broadcast entertainment (thanks again MPAA)...
Now, this is only MHO, but here goes.......
we have been created as sexual beings, it is part and parcel of the complete person, it does us NO GOOD whatsoever to repress this aspect of ourselves...and may even be somewhat blasphemous to deny our own sexuality.
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|  hockeyfun1$Down With Dc ExecPremium
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New Hartford, NY | Sex sells... Basically it. Sex sells.
Most other cable companies have Playboy, Spice, etc. on their lineup. Not a surprise Adelphia will be willing to put it on.
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Yorba Linda, CA | Adult channels on Adelphia That article mentions Vivid and Hot Network, which are both NOT soft porn and are available on DirecTV. There was an extensive discussion about this in the DirecTV forum at tivocommunity.com a few months back. These channels are available via DirecTV everywhere except in the bass-ackwards states that think people don't have the right to watch anything they want in the privacy of their own home. Your government infringing on your freedom! | |
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