The one stop spot to shop for all your activist needs!

[helpful information perha]

this be the place:



The one stop spot to shop for all your activist needs



Every day there are new calls on multiple threads to post/mail/call and otherwise voice our concerns



Many of these pleas go unseen or get repeated on multiple threads and/or forgotten



So I’d like to collect and highlight activist appeals for easy finding/action on





Webwarlocks “website central”

email forms to use including links to jumptheshark

www.xtreme-gaming.com/the...lform.html





You can politely voice your buffy concerns here”



CALL



FOX

You can voice your concern here (310-369-1000)

UPN

You can voice your concern here (310-575-7000)



MAIL



Send Fox and UPN postcards (better than letters given the anthrax scare)



Let them know how you feel about Buffy (Willow/Tara). Emphasize what you dislike about this.

Let them know who you are.

Mention your demographics: age, sex, occupation, place of residence.



Send the postcard to:



FOX BROADCASTING CO

ATTN: SANDY GRUSHOW, CHAIRMAN, FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

10201 WEST PICO BLVD

LOS ANGELES CA 90035



Gail Berman, Entertainment President

FOX Broadcasting Company

10201 W. Pico Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90035



UPN

Dawn Ostroff,

Entertainment President,

United Paramount Network

11800 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90025



ALSO:

contact your local UPN affiliate and let them know what you think/why you are not watching. Find your affiliate at UPN’s website http://www.upn.com/affiliates/



EMAIL



E-mail Fox at askfox@foxinc.com.



email to ME via their cassie website

newcassie@yahoo.com



E-mail to UPN via

feedback@upn.com



zap2it

amytvgal@zap2it.com



Eonlines wanda

wanda@eonline.com

_____





RECENT REQUESTS FOR ACTIVISM



11/05/02

from famer

Wanda is taking e-mails for potential Buffy spin-offs. Deadline is next week, i think.

She's going to publish the top 5 spin-off suggestions.

wanda@eonline.com

Shall we inundate?





11/05/02

yahoo requests feedback on their ads

ad here www.yahoo.com

click on SMG’s pic

and give feedback here

promo.yahoo.com/survey-up...=nv-3@fv-4





11/5/02

FX buffy requests

www.fxnetworks.com/contests/





10/31/02

see cesario21’s and Rally’s posts at

pub106.ezboard.com/ftheki...&stop=1280



feedback to Buffy mag

Buffy the Vampire Magazine,

Titan Magazines,

144 Southwark Street,

London, SE1 0UP.

fax+44(0)207 803 1803

emailbuffymail@titanemail.com



feedback to AfterEllen.com

comments@afterellen.com





10/27/02

see dekalog’s post

pub106.ezboard.com/ftheki...&stop=1260



'Siren' the October/November Issue.

The article by Susan Shea



Siren

128 Danforth Ave. Box 109 Toronto, On. Canada. M4K 1N1

or siren@interlog.com



10/28/02

Feedback to Entertainment weekly

www.ew.com/ew/article/com...on,00.html

Edited by: helpful information perhaps at: 11/5/02 11:56:04 am

[mscheckmate]

Thanks, HIP.

.

Very convenient. It's like having an activism mall.

Xander: "Tara, nice axing." Tara: "My first."

[helpful information perha]

yah I was going nuts trying to remember which thread on which page had which address I was suppose to write too when .....

arugh

this is why I prefer numbers

[WebWarlock]

Thanks HIP! I prefer numbers as well.



I was thinking of doing something simlar, but this damn cold I have prevents me from doing the actual thinking parts.



Here is my other contact website, www.xtreme-gaming.com/theotherside/whatcanido.php

and my email forms, www.xtreme-gaming.com/theotherside/emailform.html



Please do make use of these. If Buffy's future is going to be decided in the next few weeks then our voices need to be heard more than ever!



Tell them you are not watching. Tell them why.

And unlike some shows we can actually say the name Tara!



Edited to Add: I guess Wanda is taking Buffy spin off ideas (thanks Jixer!) let her know what we would watch at wanda@eonline.com



Warlock

-----

Web Warlock

The Other Side,

home of Liber Mysterium: The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks

"What is it with you and witches anyway?" - My Mom.

Edited by: WebWarlock at: 11/5/02 12:23:32 pm

[DianaBouvier99]

Okay thanks for the information.

Edited by: DianaBouvier99 at: 11/5/02 6:57:37 pm

[jixer]

Hello-



WW, I'm just the FX marathon starter. Famer did the Wanda post. And may I say yes to e-innudation.



And I so want to see "based on characters created by Joss Whedon".



Thanks for the thread!



J

[helpful information perha]

Diane



since this side of the board is for only the season 7 buffy crowd - you would be limiting your request for activism to a subset of the total kitten board members. I'd like to suggest you go to the main board and start a similar thread for political activism. The main board has a bigger viewership and also contains the threads on LGBT issues - so it may be easier to update the calls for political action



if you want to mirror that thread here via a link to it on the other side and the mods don't mind I'm down with that.

[themagicpixie]

I don't know if online petitions make any difference, but what the hell, why not vote to cancel Buffy.



www.savemyshow.com/shows/buffy.htm

[cesario21]

Wonderful idea HIP! And may I just say thank you for keeping track of all of this...just reading it all can be exhausting!







I shall get me writing pen out and start a'posting!



Snuggles,

Pillows xxxx

...there was a table set for six and five were there;I stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair;there was steam on the windows from the kitchen;and laughter like a language I once spoke with ease...

[WebWarlock]

jixer, thanks for the correction!

Famer thanks for the noticing.



Ok. This is important.



Time is running out for us to have an effect on the ratings. So find those people that are Nielsen Houses that are still watching.



By my calcs (HIP help me out here) they are really only 125 to 150 NH still watching Buffy. We need to knock those numbers down.



So how can you do that?

Well talk to all your friends, co-workers, family and others. Use this line.

"I was on an internet site that said there is only 5,000 people that decide how shows are rated. Do you know any of these people? I mean I am not watching (insert high rated show here) and yet it get's really high ratings."



Of course this is statistics of small numbers. So open those inroads to people. Find them. If you live in a big city, even better!



We can drive this shows numbers down and we can show the "powers that were" where the real power is.



Warlock

-----

Web Warlock

The Other Side,

home of Liber Mysterium: The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks

"What is it with you and witches anyway?" - My Mom.

[helpful information perha]

WW



according to the nielsen folks

www.nielsenmedia.com/



There are four sets of data collected by nielsen folk from 210 TV markets on 106,641,910 TV Homes containing a bit over 270 million tv viewers age 2+

(this means about 2.5 individuals per tv household)

___



This means



National Nielsens have 5000 HH's and 13000 individuals or 2.6 people per HH



National ratings - Buffy is only drawing 3% of the 5000 national tv nielsen families - or - 150 tv households



2.6 people per household X 150 HH = 390 nielsen people watching



390 /270,000,000 US tv watchers = 1 in 692,308 people is in a nielsen family and watching buffy



or statisticly speaking - each of the 2400 people on this board would have to screen 289 people before we would collectively find one who was a nielsen family buffy watcher



Bottom line - unless we were VERY lucky - probably not the best use of our time/effort





on the other hand - UPN got 1.2 million unique hits to its buffy site the day it opened -- so better than 20% of buffy's viewership is on line and works the web for buffy info - thus shaping the "buzz" about the show via posting on the major buffy boards IS a way to effect the public attitude about the show and thus perhaps its ratings...although I will be the first to admit - I post here because I find other boards much less to my tastes/tolerance



____



NOTE:



1) the NATIONAL Data is collected by meters on 5000 tv house households (out of 106,641,910 total US households with TV's) containing a total of 13,000 individuals



what is being watched by whom is measured (according the the nielsen website) by an electronic measurement system called the Nielsen People Meter. "These meters are placed in a sample of 5,000 households (13,000 persons) in the U.S., randomly selected and recruited by Nielsen Media. The People Meter is placed on each TV in the sample household. The meter measures two things - what program or channel is being tuned and who is watching"



so



13,000/270,000,000 ---or --- [1 in 20,769] people is part of the National Nielsen data base





2) The METER MARKET numbers



(400-500 HH/market) X (55 markets) = 22,000 to 27,500 tv households



22,000 HH's X 2.5 people per HH = 55,000 people



or



55,000/270,000,000 ---or--- [1 in 4909] people is part of the Metered Market Nielsen data base





In 55 largest markets in the U.S. - "a different metering system provides TV ratings information on a daily basis."



"In each of the metered markets approximately 400-500 households are recruited (not the same homes as the national People Meter sample), and electronic meters are attached to each TV set in the sample home. Homes recruited for local samples are not equipped with People Meters, so the information is limited to "set tuning" information from which Nielsen Media Research can determine which channel the TV set is tuned."



"This information is used by local television stations, local cable systems, advertisers and their agencies to make programming decisions as well as to buy and sell commercial advertising."





3) SWEEPS DIARY's



"nearly 1.6 million diaries are edited each year."



"demographic viewing data (from all 210 tv markets during sweeps) which are collected from separate samples of households which each maintain a paper viewing diary for one week."





4) HISPANIC DATA



approximately 1,000 metered homes for national and local Hispanic measurement

[WebWarlock]

HIP, yes lot of work, but all we have to do is find 40 NH watching Buffy and get them to stop to statistically affect the ratings.



Now maybe it is a quirk of fate or geography, but I have found 5 myself. Three had already stopped, I got the other two to stop. It wasn't hard.



Yes it is some work. But the potential payoff can not be ignored.



Just ask around, you might be surprised.



Warlock

-----

Web Warlock

The Other Side,

home of Liber Mysterium: The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks

"What is it with you and witches anyway?" - My Mom.

[stereo33]

I'm still emailing, sending postcards, letters etc and basically telling anyone who'll listen. This info makes it a whole lot easier.

Thanks a lot

Karen

[helpful information perha]

thanks stereo





EW is praising HIM

give feedback here



www.ew.com/ew/article/com...et,00.html





hey and we can use the EW feedback thread to wish Tara a Happy Birthday to day!





Since today is Tara's birthday and we are all tapped out from the trevor project. I'd like to suggest we honor Tara's birthday in two ways



1) Wish her a happy birthday all over the web - who ever you email/where ever you post/and when ever you post today - add a bit in about it being Tara's birthday and what she meant to you -- if posting to a board start a Tara birthday tribute thread! Celebrating Someone's Life by keeping their memory alive (even a fictional character who touched you) is a wonderful tribute to who they were and what they stood for.



2) USE the addresses above - MAIL Post Cards to UPN/FOX - tell them what tara meant to you and ask them to BRING HER BACK! and GET OTHERS TO MAIL POST CARDS! Lets get a thousand and one post cards mailed to UPN today in honor of Tara's Birthday!





- I've recruited the whole family and we are all sending a postcards to UPN and FOX today for Tara! anyone else?

Edited by: helpful information perhaps at: 11/7/02 7:13:33 am

[jixer]

Hello Kittens-



As it happens I have a postcard, one last postcard stamp, and I need to go out and get my bearings for the rest of my fanfic effort. I'm also adding that W/T were the most romantic couple on Buffy.





Thank you,



J

[emma peel]

Thanks, guys, for all the addys and links. I just sent a bunch of e-mails to various publications with a "Happy Birthday,Tara" note. I got the automatic "thank you" bla bla bla response from GLAAD. Sheesh. The only time I've gotten anything back from GLAAD about W/T after many attempts.

Off to write many postcards now. Oh, yeah. I'll write the cards after I make phone calls to the numbers ya'll have kindly provided.

Thanks again!

Janice

[kbk3022]

What is the contact for GLAAD? Also, what are some other gay and lesbian magazines I can contact about this recent episode? I feel like writing letters today.



Kasey

[Kendahl897]

Does anyone have the address for ME?

[stereo33]

Kendahl - I took this from the board a while ago



Mutant Enemy Inc

1800 Stewart Street

Second Floor

Santa Monica

CA 90404

[IvanovaDV]

I hope it's ok to post this here, too...



for all of you who are almost as disappointed in the Lesbian storylines of Emergency Room (which has even posters on non-homophobic boards wish for Kerry to be re-heterosexualized, because ever since she went lesbian, she has been a winy wimp and professionally inept, not to mention the outing "favor" of the last season), this is the place to voice your opinion:





ER Producers

c/o Warner Brothers Studio

4000 Warner Brothers Blvd

Burbank CA 91522

U.S.A.



e-Mail:



ER@nbc.com

Edited by: Warduke at: 11/12/02 12:38:11 pm

[Lisa of Nine]

For what it's worth, here is the contact information for Marti Noxon. (Not sure of the spelling of her last name)



I called ME's offices and talked to a nice woman who was polite. She gave me the following:



Buffy the Vampire Slayer

20th Century Fox.

P.O. Box 900

Beverly Hills, CA 90213-0900

ATTN: Marti Noxon





FAX:

(310) 579- 5353

ATTN: Marti Noxon



Don't forget to tell her why we are not watching, what it will take to get us back and that we know the turth behind the ME lies. Spin all you want, we will still be here making noise long after ME is dizzy.



Happy faxing!

Lisa

[helpful information perha]

thanks Lisa!





ok here are some other requests for activism that I've culled out of recent threads:



11/24

hope we all are writing SFX etc

and given whedon's latest comments at sci fi wire dissing buffy/angels cast and stars and Marti's latest at EW



perhaps another round of postcards to

UPN/FOX/ME are in order - so they remember as marti points out they are still paying for tara and will cont to pay for it.







11/19/02



WRITE WANDA!



wanda@eonline.com



from her most recent chat

chris345 asks: So wanda what's your take on Benson not returning to buffy

Wanda replies: That it was HONEST TO GOD all about the studio not paying her what they should have. Sometimes, Hollywood really is all about business.















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11/18/02

1) Tyche has requested feedback to SFX



“SFX have done a US TV special issue (out in the UK now, £4.99) and they have a feature with Marti talking about all the eps of S6. She does not mention Tara at alluntil 'Seeing Red', and this is what she has to say about the ep. “



Quote:



Obviously that [episode] had the shocking ending with Tara's death. That was something Joss had up his sleeve the whole time and we were driving toward it. We were hopeful that people would not see it coming in the least. We really wanted to make it pretty brutal and scary. I think the whole episode makes you feel like things are going in one direction and then, kablooey, they go in another. It's also the episode that probably drew the biggest firestorm we've ever had, which was about killing Tara. We're still paying for that one. I really understand what a lot of people's issues with it are, but at the same time it was, I think, dramatically the right choice.

"It was enlightening to see how iconic and important this character had become to the gay community, and how painful it was to see one of our characters executed like that. Some people saw it as a statement, because the two girls were all naked and loving on each other, and the next thing you know one of them is brutally killed. We had to say, 'Well, look at the way this series has unfolded. We're clearly not homophobic or anti-gay. You just have to trust that it wasn't a comment.' We did have thoughts of bringing Tara back in some way. In our minds it wasn't necessarily the end, but it was interesting to see how heated and passionate a reaction we got."



a couple of bits - from the commentary on 'Dead Things:



Quote:



I thought this was one of our most chilling, frightening episodes of the season. To me it had some classic 'Buffy' good stuff, which was playing the whole joke of turning Katrina into a sex slave and then that turning out to be no joke at all. It's not funny to make girls your sex slave. In the 'Buffy' universe, that's not a big joke. But to play it for comedy and then turn it on its head was, I thought, really inspired.



On 'Villains'



Quote:



“This is the pay-off for the big arc. This is big, bad-ass Willow. By this point people were either loving it or hating it. I though the episode worked really well. There are a lot of cool events and heavy-duty injury. It was an interesting dilemma for our friends to be in and different from our standard apocalypse storylines, which I really enjoyed. The skinning of Warren was something Joss wanted. We pitched it to the network and the network said, 'As long as you only see it for 2.5 seconds, go for it.'"





Here's the address:

SFX

Future Publishing

30 Monmouth St

Bath

BA1 2BW

UK

Tel: 01225 442244

Fax: 01225 732248

Email: sfx@futurenet.co.uk



____



2) Tyche has requested feedback to Cinescape regarding their comments on NOW’s take on BtVS and women



www.cinescape.com/0/edito...2&sub_id=0



E-mail it to me at RedSonia@cinescape.com



___

3) David V has requested feedback to Scoopme.com over their review/comments on Cassie Newton as the face of evil



www.scoopme.com/tv/articl...e_id=80466

Edited by: helpful information perhaps at: 11/24/02 8:20:30 pm

[jixer]

Hello Kittens-



Just a question. Does anyone know who to send a postcard to at Viacom- the people who hold UPN's leash? I'd like to tell them why I'm not watching their little network's offerings. After Buffy's 2.8 I think it might be good for them to know.



Thank you,



Jixer

[WebWarlock]

Email is nice, but letters and faxes speak louder.

Phone calls are even better.



Viacom's investor relations dept is at 1-800-516-4399.



More can be found at www.viacom.com/shareholder.tin and www.viacom.com/factsandfig.tin#contact



Warlock

-----

Web Warlock

The Other Side,
home of Liber Mysterium: The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks

"I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down. Trust me. Trust me." - Sober, Tool

[helpful information perha]

send post cards! faxs or call



people don't want to open letters now due to the anthrax thing

[helpful information perha]

for the latest round of emails/post cards



wanda@eonline.com

askfox@foxinc.com

feedback@upn.com

amytvgal@zap2it.com

comments@thesuccubusclub.com

[stereo33]

Anyone else had problems emailing to feedback@upn.com?



I keep getting my emails returned 'unable to deliver', which is a bit weird as I'm not having any problems sending anywhere else, (and have used this address in the past).



Karen

[helpful information perha]

I thought it was just me and my cheapo email that was happening too.



I'll look around and see if I can find some other email addys for upn

[dekalog]

perhaps they don't like what they are hearing?



well there are always postcards

[stereo33]

hip - thanks let us know if you find any new addresses, I'm not done emailing yet!

dekalog - I'm not done sending postcards either