Posted on 01/24/2006 9:39:09 AM PST by nmh
Because of your efforts, NBC cancels 'Book of Daniel'
Dear (just received this through e-mail),
NBC's anti-Christian program The Book of Daniel has been cancelled! Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact.
NBC's decision to pull The Book of Daniel shows the power of the pocketbook. NBC didn't want to eat their economic losses. Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept The Book of Daniel on the air. Because of your efforts, the sponsors dropped the program. NBC then decided it didn't want to continue the fight.
Even an impassioned plea by Daniel's producer Jack Kenny could not match your participation. "Ordinarily, I would never ask anyone to do this, but the AFA and bullies like them are hard at work to try and prevent you from seeing these beautiful shows, and that is censorship—pure and simple. And that is both un-Christian and un-American," Kenny wrote. His attitude is typical in today’s society. Non-Christians telling Christians what is Christian.
People like Kenny don't want people like you to have a voice. They want to deny you the right to get involved. You are supposed to sit back and take the trash. And when you do speak up they call you names.
This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and fight back with our pocketbooks. I want to thank the 678,394 individuals who sent emails to NBC and the thousands who called and emailed their local affiliates.
Thanks for caring enough to get involved!
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Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association
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Excellent point.
I spoke with the local NBC25 in Hagerstown, MD, and was directed to the national HQ. I followed up, and got a nice, plain vanilla response. There must have been a lot of emails... and it will be interesting to see what comes up next!
Good job!! As an aside, but it's a potent illustration of how long TV execs have been deeply biased against the Christian majority, I was just reading the autobiography of Johnny Cash and he relates how when he had a TV show on ABC for two years, around 1971-73 I believe, he once stated on the show that he was a Christian and he had an ABC producer take him aside and tell him "you cannot so much as mention Christianity on network TV" or words to that effect. So it's fine for network TV to trash Christianity but not to even allow one performer to mention his own faith in a positive light.....
Ratings in the dumpster - no one is watching. That's the biggest message. The ratings game is just that. The network listens when nobody watches.
I still wonder how the heck they managed to get "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on TV.
You may be right.
Has it been doing CSI numbers, I don't think that the sponsors would have been so hesitant to buy time on it. As someone else pointed out, Heather Graham's sitcom was cancelled after one showing with no boycott in place.
You're probably right on this, too. I was speaking theoretically, but in the real world a big hit probably would have drawn more advertiser interest.
Wes Mantooth says Nielsens doesn't take into account households with more than two TVs.
Really, it's time to rehab the word intolerant. It's not a bad word you know. There are things we SHOULD be intolerant of. The problem is the left has taken a perfectly sensible thing and turned it into a buggaboo. Unfortunately many perfectly sane people have bought into it.
susie
Johnny sure had the last laugh, though. He and June are singing royal command performances in the throne room of the Universe these days. :-)
Oh, and another last laugh: In a few short years, the alphabet networks will be fighting over the privilege of being the network to show "Walk the Line" in prime time.
I hope they lost lots of $$$$$$
I heard a thing on NPR where they were talking to Bill Mendehlson. Schultz just made the show and sent it in, and ignored feedback about the Luke scene. Just ignoring the execs is also how a lot of social commentary stuff got on Star Trek.
I gotta admit, I thought the same thing until I started actually reading the Bible. It was eye opening. And Jesus wasn't the hippy I'm ok/You're ok guy I had been lead to believe he was either.
susie
Perhaps Nielson should start doing random quizzes to see if people actually watched! ;)
susie
By lessening the pool of potential advertisers for a show, you might drive down the rates a fraction, but you will not stop companies from buying time on a highly rated show.
Power to the People Ping!
>>>>Non-Christians telling Christians what is Christian.
Theological advise from the terminally agnostic should be considered facially invalid.
Not exactly. They might have taken their lumps for a year or so, hoping the show would pick up steam later. Thats what happened with Seinfeld, for example..Theyreally didnt care for all the negative flak they were receiving, either..
Thank your local affiliate and NBC for cancelling that horrible show.....
nbcshows@nbc.com
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