From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Concerning the Return of Doctor Who
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 06:03:01 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson) writes:

- yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) wrote:
-
- I don't think polls say much. However, I know you live by them in backing up
- your arguments. That is why I said it. The poll results were posted here
- last week, so find it yourself.
-
  I said over the laast 12 months, not just the recent one.  It seems to you
that people arguments don't matter.  Hey, Tom!! People arguments are worth
$1000000!!

-
- So what does that prove? They may be the vocal minority.

  I wish I could believe that!

- I don't want to dig
- up that grave again, but it falls in line with what I said below.
-
- >> Let me add one thing that Gene Roddenberry said about Star Trek: The hard-
- >> fans of the show are a VERY SMALL percentage of the viewers that watch the
- >> show. Thus the network cares very little about the show's fans. The same g
- >> for Dr. Who. What you/I/we want is meaningless to the TV execs. The public
- >> only influences public TV (like PBS) and pay-per-view.
-
- >Excuse me, but people on the Star Trek Nodes would laugh at the above! Star
- >Trek was brought back BECAUSE of fan pressure. If there was no fan pressure,
- >no ST:TNG. So Tom, being a believer that movements ca do anything to which I
- >adhere to, I believe if fans are NOT apathetic, the BBC would have to yield
- >if they don't want mud tossed over there name!!
-
- You grossly misunderstand the statement. First, since Gene Roddenberry made t
- statement himself, ST fans won't be laughing at me, they would be laughing at
- him. That's ST blasphemy, right? Sure fan pressure brought back the show, but
- that is about as relevant as: 2+2=4 so bananas are yellow. The statement says
- that no matter how faithful the true fans are, they are only a small percent
- of the people who view the show. I watch a lot of TV shows, and I am not a
- fan of most of them. Some people watch a show because they are moderately
- interested or just because there is nothing else on. Networks only care about
- the gross number of viewers, not how many are fans or happy about the situati
- Local programming cares about the small people, large networks don't.
-
- I can't see the BBC's reaction to all of the "pressure." Looks like they have
- successfully ignored most of it.
-
  You make the argument of Public TV.  Tom, you are reminded that BBC IS
Public television.  It is  funded by the British people via a license fee.
The Public does have input into what goes on!! And as Ian has pointed out,
there are 2 BBC stations and mabye fams should lookk to Alan Yacoub, BBC2
Controller, as the hero who could bring back the Doctor instead of Powell.

- >> Tom "The Valeyard"  Wilson
-
- If you would explain your abbreviations, I
- wouldn't have ever brought it up. Look up "acc" in the dictionary and tell me
- what you find.
-
  I usualyy read the Oxford! and I can't speak for you, mate!

Dave Shariff Yadallee
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