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<title>Babylon 5 Support Page</title>
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</map>
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<map name="titlebar">
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<area shape="RECT" coords="0,0,370,31" href="/lurk/lurker.html" alt="Home">
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<area shape="RECT" coords="371,0,412,31" href="/lurk/search.html" alt="Find">
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<area shape="RECT" coords="455,0,499,31" href="/lurk/help.html" alt="Help">
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</map>
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<link rel=parent href="lurker.html">
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<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
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</head>
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<body>
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<p align=center nowrap><nobr><img
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align=middle border=0 usemap="#titlebar"
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src="/lurk/nav/titlebar.gif" width=500 height=32
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alt="[Home]">
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<br><img
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align=top border=0 usemap="#toplevel"
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src="/lurk/nav/bar-none.gif" width=500 height=24
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alt="">
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</nobr>
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<h1 align=center>How to help bring back B5</h1>
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<p>
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<nobr><strong>See Also:</strong> <wbr>
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<a href="/lurk/ftp/b5tvaddresses.txt">Station Address List</a> - <wbr>
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<a href="http://www.babylon5.com/cmp/support/">Official Babylon 5 web site's Support page</a> <wbr>
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<a href="index.html">Lurker's Guide Support Page</a>
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</nobr>
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<p>
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Please send updates/comments directly to <a href="mailto:danwood@pobox.com">danwood@pobox.com</a>
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<hr>
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<a href="flyer.gif"><img align=right border=1 width=200 height=263 src="flyerthumb.gif"></a>
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If viewers wish to keep seeing B5 locally, now is the time to campaign the stations to get
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them to change their mind. Several stations <em>have</em> changed their minds due to fan lobbying!
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<p>
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Some useful things to do. Volunteer coordinators are needed for many of these efforts!
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<ul>
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<li> Write a <em>polite</em> letter to your local station, asking them to change their minds
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and renew the show. (Use your own words!) Point out that ratings and demographics have been very good at
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many stations, especially when the show is given a decent time slot. Many stations are moving B5 to a <em>better</em>
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time slot for season 4, which indicates their confidence in the show.
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<li> Find some possible candidate stations to pick up the show, and ask them if they would please
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pick up B5 for next Fall.
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<li> Encourage others you know to write to all these stations as well.
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<li> Organize with others on the Internet to encourage letter writing, to brainstorm, and to coordinate plans.
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<ul>
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<li> Join, or create, a <a href="http://www.babcom.com/b5/lists.shtml">regional mailing list</a>
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so you can communicate and organize.
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<li> Post messages to the various B5 newsgroups such as <a href="news:rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated">
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rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated</a> and <a href="news:rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5">
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rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5</a> to publicize you call-to-arms
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<li> Create a web page that others can visit to find out what they can do to help.
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</ul>
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<li>Get the word out to local BBS's and computer clubs.
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<li>Bring the campaign <em>outside</em> of the Internet! Remember, the people who are active
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on the Internet are only a <em>fraction</em> of total viewers in your area, and they probably don't
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know that the show has been dropped.
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Possible techniques include:
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<ul>
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<li> Make several dozen inexpensive flyers or bookmarks and distribute them to comic shops, SF/Fantasy/
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Roleplaying shops, bookstores. This sample <a href="flyer.gif">flyer</a> can be printed out at
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150 DPI, laid out 4 to a page, and photocopied. Or, design your own.
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<li> Contact the media and let them know of your efforts to bring back the show. Classifieds,
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letters to the editor, phone calls, etc. could be effective.
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<li> Get the word out at any local conventions, SF-related events, SF/B5 fan clubs, or any organizations
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where there may be lots of B5 viewers.
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</ul>
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<li>If your station doesn't have a contact person and/or mailing list, why not volunteer to do that?
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You'll get fame and glory, and if you can organize with people to help, you may just manage to get the show
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picked up again!
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</ul>
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<br clear=ALL>
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<hr>
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<center>Please send updates/comments directly to <a href="mailto:danwood@pobox.com">danwood@pobox.com</a>
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</center>
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</nobr>
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<h5>
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Last update:
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Sept. 12, 1996
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</h5>
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