An idea

POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 19:19
VIEWED: 5702
PAGE 2 of 3

PREV PAGE 1 2 3 NEXT PAGE

KINGOFKOINS

Monday, January 26, 2004 2:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by kalathena:
Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
Only one problem for me on bycotting Fox (Though I'd love to): I love the Simpsons.

That's my problem, too. If this was five years ago, I might consider it, but after the Evita parody this year, I just can't *not* watch it. I swear by my autographed copy of MY LIFE AS A TEN-YEAR-OLD-BOY that I won in a trivia contest, I'm far too attached to Springfield to give it up.

I have an extreme amount of respect for those who have, however. You're much stronger than I am.

--Kala

Bah, I don't think leaving the Simpsons at this point is any really big loss. I love the Simpsons, and I can go toe to toe with the best of them in trivia, but I think they jumped the shark around "Behind the laughter". Let it go.

--------------------------------
It's sickening how comforting the privacy of the mind can be.

http://stripe.filetap.com

MADMAX

Monday, January 26, 2004 2:54 PM

Hey not A bad idea, and with the fact that I have the Nelsion junk hooked to my TVs they will see that I am not watching fox.

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, January 26, 2004 3:01 PM

I already boycott Fox, so I have no problem signing up for a general boycott of it or any network.

If this goes down, just post a date and how long the boycott should run and I am in. I will even send emails or make calls to local TV news stations and newspapers to tell them.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

PUMAMANREDUX

Monday, January 26, 2004 3:18 PM

well ... dunno if a protest will work on a small scale .. Fox can just say "We have millions of viewers world wide that watch our network affiliates no matter what we do to our shows ... so whats a few thousand ticked off Firefly fans going to do to our network ... possibly bring us new viewers who see that fox is being protested against, find the protest goofy and then they'll check out our current line-up ... cool "

I hope the media response, if any, isn't to ridicule the fanbase ... it seems that it could happen ...

okay .. playing sorta a Devil's Advocate here

*Gets off the soapbox and trips*

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. (Alfred Hitchcock)

DUG

Monday, January 26, 2004 3:46 PM

OK, I have something of an inside view on how ratings work. I ran radio stations for 15 years, which is a similar ratings based cesspool.

There is one critical thing to understand about the mind of a media exec: Unless you are a rated household you have less significance than a dust mote. Since the ad dollars are based on ratings ONLY rated households matter. If no one other than rated househoulds watch a show the numbers will stil say that it has a huge following. If EVERY one OTHER than rated households watches, it looks like the show is dead. All parties involved know that it is a mythical number and may not truly represent how things are, but they are the ONLY numbers to base multi million dollar decisions on, and therefore to defend jobs with.

If you watch but are unrated, you are invisible and unsellable. If you boycott but are unrated, you are irrelevant. Like shouting into a well; no one hears you.

Boycotts will do little unless you organize the prople with rated households. And they matter a FRIGHTENING amount. Direct appeal to advertisers may have more effect, since they control the purse strings that drive the whole business.

RKLENSETH

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:15 AM

Well, it would have to be some months from so that people can be contacted and the word sent out.

We should also make sure that it doesn't fall onto a date when something major is happening (ie. Superbowl).

Anyhow, no matter what publicity we get it will help. People will read in the newspaper or see on tv or hear on the radio about Firefly and then if even 1/3rd of them decide to pick it up then that is another couple of thousand of people that might join the Browncoat ranks which is already swelling due to the social currency. As I said, most people who I have shown the series to have fallen in love with it after the first episode. If this keeps up then soon enough no network will be able to ignore us or movie studio for that matter.

On the online game forum that I play and am a staff member for (see link below) I have been trying to convert fellow players. I think some of them might have been converted when I started posting Firefly's famous one liners and quotes. Some are still skeptical of a sci-fi western (which in my opinion is a little bit more than that) but I'll keep working on them.

Well, lets keep the word out anyway possible.

How about sometime in March or April?

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

HERO

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:04 AM

I'm not Boycotting TV for a week. Sunday is the superbowl and not much is in repeats so if your gonna boycott do it at a better time, like when there's nothing on.

H

RKLENSETH

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:05 AM

I just said that in my last post....

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

MOMAW

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
I'm not Boycotting TV for a week. Sunday is the superbowl and not much is in repeats so if your gonna boycott do it at a better time, like when there's nothing on.

H

The whole point of a boycott is that you give up something you want, to make a statement. If the thing you give up had no value to you anyway, the only statement you're making is one of hypocrisy.

Personally I've seen maybe a dozen hours of broadcast/live television in the past... what year is this. 8 solid years at least. Mostly when we go visiting or some such, they'll have the boob tube tuned in. So I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and call it my decade-long marathon boycott of the Fox network

Get lots of reading done, if ye don't watch the tube. Fantasy fantasy fans, check out the Sevenwaters trilogy, Juliet Marillier.

ZEKE023

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:49 PM

Nobody would notice this effort.

The main reason firefly was cancled was due to poor Nielson ratings. Clearly those who like and watch the show are not "Nielson Families" - and therefore no one cares what they watch or don't watch.

Unless you have a Nielson box - you have absolutely no power unless you want to write letters - and then tape bricks to their replies and "return to sender - pay on delivery". That's power, baby!

PREV PAGE 1 2 3 NEXT PAGE