Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!gitpyr!djl From: djl@gitpyr.UUCP (Dave Lane) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Hartnell, Troughton, (really costs) Message-ID: <1183@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 23:26:17 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1183 Posted: Thu Dec 12 23:26:17 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 20:41:08 EST References: <2aa5cd15.917@apollo.uucp> Reply-To: djl@gitpyr.UUCP (Dave Lane) Organization: Georgia Institute of Somethingorother Lines: 52 In article <2aa5cd15.917@apollo.uucp> johnf@apollo.uucp (John Francis) writes: >Something you might like to bring to the attention of your local PBS station: > >WENH (the New Hampshire PBS station) has found that Dr. Who is its biggest single >fund-raiser. Every pledge time they run Dr. Who "specials" like the 5 (or 3) doctors, >and last time we got a "sneak preview" of their forthcoming attractions - they >ran "An Unearthly Child" (the first story-line of the first series - but you ALL >knew that, didn't you :-). As Dr. Who is their biggest fund-raiser, they listen to >what the Dr. Who watchers want, and so we will be getting to see the William Hartnell, >Patrick Troughton, and early Jon Pertwee episodes. In fact they used this as bait - >sort of "give us enough money and we promise to buy the early Dr. Who episodes". >[talks about competing stations] (WGBH are just re-cycling the same old episodes >of late Jon Pertwee - Tom Baker - Peter Davison). >So - get organized! If enough people are prepared to pledge enough money you should >be able to persuade your local PBS station to buy anything you want to see. All you >need to do is pay. [Cable Viewers: Just consider PBS to be a premium channel, and >put aside $10 a month.] $120 a year is enough to make PBS stations VERY interested - >if you can get 500 people to pledge this much I think your PBS station would be >prepared to show just about anything - even 150 should be enough to buy a Dr. Who >series from Lionheart (the figure $10,000 seems to crop up in my memory), together >with enough left over to pay for the electricity and equipment operators. Well, we just finished our WinterFest '85 (i.e., "whine-a-thon") here in Atlanta. We have had to put up with ONLY Baker and Davison episodes for quite some time. During one of the breaks some figures were mentioned--$800 for the episode that aired that night (Castrovalva, if memory serves) [your milage may vary depending on market size] on WETV one of two PBS stations that serve Atlanta. During the afternoon, they showed K9 and company, I think; I don't watch the afternoon show, as it is only one 30 minute block and the evening show is an hour and a half to two hours depending. They also mentioned that Dr. Who fans are some of their better supporters, though no real figures for this were given. WETV considers $120 a year ($10 a month, usually, though they will accept lump sum, if forced :-) as a "major gift". During each of the four? breaks during/just before Castrovalva they got 20-35 "major gifts," and up to 60 pledges each break (they usually go back to the program when they get 60 pledges.) The programming director for the station (who does most of the breaks) announced that the station had just finished negotiations with Lion- heart to carry Dr. Who into 1991, at a cost of around $2.5E5. He did NOT, however, say that they had any "new" (for the station) episodes. Personally, I think that I should be tired of Tom and Peter after 8 years...I hope that at least some Pertwee episodes and some of the earlier or even Colin Baker shows are in this batch.... Does anyone have hard information on just how much we pay for each show? Any other comments? -- Dave Lane, User Assistant, Office of Computing Services, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp}!gatech!gitpyr!djl ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!djl