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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller])
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Lost episodes and Crassness at pledge time
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 15:04:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 18 15:04:55 1984
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller])
Organization: Callahans
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Summary: 


 
>[ Ubiquitous little bug, isn't it? ]
>Today, WHA (Madison's Public TV station) announced that they were
>going to have the package of lost and unreleased episodes of Dr. 
>Who available in March.  Then they added:
>	But this will cost us $9000.
>	Our pledge goal is $150,000 and we only have $90K
>	right now.  So, if we don't meet our goal, we'll be facing
>	some very tough choices about what to cut.
>
>WHA just kissed goodbye to any pledges from me with this cheesey
>attempt at blackmail.  I wouldn't have minded so much if they
>had said that they'd get the episodes if they  met their goals...
>but first they give, and then take away.  Slime-brains, they are.

Hmm... Last year, KQED in San Francisco went over in their pledges in one
festival-- they announced that they would cut out a couple of days of
pledges from their next pledge week, and did. Response was such that they
went over again. 

Our other station, KTEH, also wanted to buy the new Pertwee stuff (This was
the first station to purchase the Davison episodes, BTW). What they did was
allow Dr. Who fans to allocate their pledges to Dr. Who-- first by paying
off the current licensing contracts and then setting up a special fund to
buy the new programs. All you had to do way tell them. Both of these
stations are pretty classey, actually, and treat their viewers well.
Pledges are a pain, generally, for them and for the viewers, but they seem
to handle them well.

Suggestion: rather than just bitch here, write a letter to your PBS station
bitching to them as well, explaining exactly why they almost had your money
and lost it. Enough people do that and they'll clean up their act.

chuq
-- 
From behind the bar at Callahan's:		Chuq Von Rospach
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their
bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was
ambitious... And Brutus is an honorable man