From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (rock)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: RE: PBS & SCIFI CHANNELS 
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 15:35:18 EDT
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DV>From: doug.vermes%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Doug Vermes) 
DV>-> Sounds OK, but all my paper and stamps are gonna be used to make sure
DV>-> I *get* the SF channel... My cableco is saying "Oh, we'll get it...
DV>-> in February 1994."  AARGH!!
DV>Tell me about it! My cable company has a case of amnesia. When I first
DV>called, they said "Well, we're re-doing the whole lineup on November 1,
DV>but the SciFi channel is one of the stations we haven't made a decision
DV>on, for whatever reason. Try calling back in a week or so." I did so.
DV>The response then was, "Changing our channels when? Well, we don't know
DV>anything about that yet. SciFi? We don't know what channels we're gonna
DV>have. All we know is that we are adding more channels. When we receive
DV>the new lineup, there will probably be some promotion telling you which
DV>stations we will show."
DV>
DV>Now how on Earth did it get from "Nov 1., but we don't know about SciFi
DV>YET..." to "We know absolutely nothing." Who the hell runs my cable
DV>company? Ronald Reagan??? <GRIN>
DV>    - Doug
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Oh, that isn't so bad.  MY cable company is positively unfathomable!  I
called after seeing one of the numerous (media blitzing, to be honest)
commercials to ask if we were going to get the SciFi channel.  The first
person I asked says, 'Oh, we haven't made a decision yet.'  'Well', said I,
'What factors would influence this decision?'  Dead silence.  Hold music.
A new voice asks if she can help me.  "Yup.  I want the SF channel, and I
want to know what you are going to do about it." "Well, we are still
considering it.  If we do, it won't be until sometime next year." "Hmm,"
said I, muffling my gnashing teeth, "You know, I have a lot of friends who
are very interested in this channel.  Many of them will converge on your
office and blast it with large calibre weapons if you don't change that
position!" (Ok, ok, actually I told her I knew a lot of people wanted it,
and that if the company were undecided, I would like to encourage my
friends to write letters to help them gauge the demand.) "Oh, no," she
replied.  "That won't be necessary.  We are well aware that many people are
interested in the SF channel, and in fact have been deluged with calls for
it." In other words, the cable company _did not care that there was a
demand_!  I was dumbfounded.  "WHY?!" "Well, sir, we haven't decided to
offer that service..."

Face it, folks, the cable companies seem to be waffling here because they
want to see if the channel will sell big advertisements or something.  I
can find no other explanation.


"Sometimes what you say is going to get right in the faces of the powerful
 people who really run this world, but you don't care....  You know it's
 your place to challenge authority...."

Rockerboy, digital artiste' (rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us)
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