BABYLON 5 NOT RENEWED IN B.C.!!!
Travers Naran
>Despite valiant efforts by some of us to write in to BCTV to continue
>carrying Babylon 5 for the fall season. I have received a letter from
>Roy Gardener (VP Programming) that it will NOT be shown for the 95-96
>season. They continue to hold the rights to it so they may show it at
>a more appropriate (ie. late night) time slot later on. ALL Bab 5 fans
>in BC please harrass them some more!
We made our own bed. By telling BCTV we wanted it, they've optioned the rights
to it so no other station in BC can air it. BCTV is behaving much like its
boorish network, CTV. Kind of funny really -- the only Canadian content I
watch comes from CKVU (U-Tv) and the CBC and the specialty channels. I don't
watch anything on CTV except ER.
My question is -- why can't this happen to ST:Voyager? :-)
Igor Ying-Kit Yu
Monica Granbois
Could you please pass along CHEK6's address if you have it.
-Monica-
Jason Shantz
right to broadcast B5. They have told me that although B5 will not be on
their fall schedule at the beginning, they will play it at some point. This
makes sense to me; after all, they did shell out good money for broadcast
rights. It would be stupid to just throw that money away by not playing
the show.
Besides, it's only July. Things could change drastically in the next
couple of months. (fingers crossed)
Jason
Chris Thibodeau
>Could you please pass along CHEK6's address if you have it.
>-Monica-
BC Victoria CHEK-6
780 Kings Rd.,Victoria, BC, V8T 5A2
(604) 383-2435, fax: (604) 384-7766
Attn: Barry Dodd, Broadcast Manager
The above information was obtained from the the B5 Web page on
hyperion (http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html).
To get to the addresses select:
- [the episodes]
- [Where B5 Can be seen]
- In USA section, [station addresses]
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Chris Thibodeau
Victoria, BC, Canada
Toby Baden
> In a previous article, i...@newsserver.sfu.ca (Igor Ying-Kit Yu) says:
> >Despite valiant efforts by some of us to write in to BCTV to continue
I don't remember BCTV ever carriying B5. It was only CHEK6.
Still sounds bad tho..
> Could you please pass along CHEK6's address if you have it.
From the telephone book:
C H E K Televevision
780 Kings
Victoria B.C.
Canada
(Don't have the postal code)
604 383 2435
CHEK6 is currently showing B5 on Sunday at 4:00 PM.
I have not seen any other stations showing it.
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Chris Thibodeau
>Despite valiant efforts by some of us to write in to BCTV to continue
>carrying Babylon 5 for the fall season. I have received a letter from
>Roy Gardener (VP Programming) that it will NOT be shown for the 95-96
>season. They continue to hold the rights to it so they may show it at
>a more appropriate (ie. late night) time slot later on. ALL Bab 5 fans
>in BC please harrass them some more!
We received the same letter. Oh well, now I only watch CHEK-6 for the
local news and nothing else....
For those of us lucky enough to have KSTW Bellingham on their cable
lineup we should send KSTW a letter supporting them in their
continuing showing of B5 - maybe even ask for a better timeslot than
Saturday at 4pm! :-)
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Chris Thibodeau
Victoria, BC
cam fraser
>Despite valiant efforts by some of us to write in to BCTV to continue
>carrying Babylon 5 for the fall season. I have received a letter from
>Roy Gardener (VP Programming) that it will NOT be shown for the 95-96
>season. They continue to hold the rights to it so they may show it at
>a more appropriate (ie. late night) time slot later on. ALL Bab 5 fans
>in BC please harrass them some more!
I send you my condolences, but in winnipeg the only way we can see
babylon 5, and this includes the past 2 years, is to get a satalite feed
from WSBK Boston. What has this contry come to?
By the way, just out of curriosity, how many times is Star Trek on? (any
of them.)
Trevor Bradley
>Monica Granbois <uj...@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA> wrote:
>> In a previous article, i...@newsserver.sfu.ca (Igor Ying-Kit Yu) says:
>> >Despite valiant efforts by some of us to write in to BCTV to continue
> I don't remember BCTV ever carriying B5. It was only CHEK6.
> Still sounds bad tho..
>> Could you please pass along CHEK6's address if you have it.
>From the telephone book:
> C H E K Televevision
> 780 Kings
> Victoria B.C.
> Canada
> (Don't have the postal code)
> 604 383 2435
>CHEK6 is currently showing B5 on Sunday at 4:00 PM.
>I have not seen any other stations showing it.
Apparently, the best peron to write to is Roy Gartner, VP of programming at
\BCTV, who makes all the decisions anyways...
BTW, CHEK 6 preepmted Shadow of Z'ha'dum this weekend....
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Gavin Ouckama
>From: na...@newsserver.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
>Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 NOT RENEWED IN B.C.!!!
>Date: 27 Jul 1995 14:34:10 -0700
>i...@newsserver.sfu.ca (Igor Ying-Kit Yu) writes:
>>Despite valiant efforts by some of us to write in to BCTV to continue
>>carrying Babylon 5 for the fall season. I have received a letter from
>>Roy Gardener (VP Programming) that it will NOT be shown for the 95-96
>>season. They continue to hold the rights to it so they may show it at
>>a more appropriate (ie. late night) time slot later on. ALL Bab 5 fans
>>in BC please harrass them some more!
Got an address ??? !!!!
Tell me who and where to write ... I'll do it.
Gavin
Frank Garcia
Gavin_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Gavin Ouckama) wrote:
Once again, here's that info you need...
BCTV
Box 4700
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4A3
Phone: (604) 420-2288
Fax: (604) 444-9561
Roy Gardner, Vice-President, Programming
CHEK-6
780 Kings Road
Victoria, B.C. V8T 5A2
(604) 383-2435, fax: (604) 384-7766
Barry Dodd, Broadcast Manager
KSTW 14
2320 South 19 Street /P.O. Box 11411
Tacoma Washington 98405 /Tacoma Washington 98411
Tel: (206) 572-6789
Fax: (206) 272-2061
Kathy Walker, Programming
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Frank Garcia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Scott Advani
the letter, CHEK6 / BCTV is still retaining the rights to
broadcast the show - they are not going to show it in their fall
line-up.
I don't know for sure what this means except that they might
night show episodes at the regular start of the season (in
September), but begin to show new episodes when new eps are
actually delivered.
So, they've bought and paid for episodes, but they're not
planning on airing eps in September.
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Scott Advani
Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada
sc...@ccc-van.crusade.org -- http://www.crusade.org/crusade/