May 4- A Need for Feed…back
It’s been a while since I went over some of the e-mail that I’ve received at svengoolie@wciu.com … so, there’s no time like the present to do so…
Joe, from across the pond in the lovely state of Michigan, asked if we’d be able to do a webcast of the Svengoolie show.
He’s been enjoying our webisodes here on the site, but is too far away from Chicago to get the WCIU signal!(Depending on where he is in Michigan, he might be able to get the WCIU signal- I know some folks right along the lakeshore can get it-or, maybe even get the signal bounced across now from our Me-TV Milwaukee station, if the weather conditions are right-OR, if he’s close enough to South Bend, get the signal from
WMYS) Anyway, right now, the main problem with webcasting the show would be getting the rights to run the movies on the web, at a price that would make it worthwhile for our company…which is also a reason why we don’t sell dvds of the shows- we’d need to get the distribution rights for the movies, which the distributors, for the most part, sell already (without the Sven content, of course.) We have gotten the webcast question quite a few times- who knows? Maybe there’ll be a way to do so down the line.
Adam, who lives out in L.A., asked me about something he saw on Wikipedia, stating that an L.A. station was going to “quietly” give our show a trial run last summer. He was wondering if he missed it, since he felt that it would have helped him with his homesickness, as a transplant out there form this area, and he had noted that one station was running the same movies that we are. He asked if that station was owned by our company. Well, Adam, if it WAS owned by our company- I’d probably be on it. But, no-on actuality, there was never any plan to try out our show there. Someone saw that they were listing the same movies, running on the same weeks there as they were here, and mistakenly jumped to the conclusion that they were running the Sven show. From what I understand, that station, which seems to have taken a lot of cues from our stations, like Me-TV, has ties to Universal, and saw how well we were doing with their old classic films, and decided they’d give it a try. I also heard that they actually got some calls from other Sven fans in the area who had read the same thing, and asked if it was true!
Wow- already burned up the blog space answering just two questions! We’ll try to hit more of them soon-meanwhile, feel free to ask me whatever’s on your mind- you can just hit the “contact Sven” tab at the top of our blog page to get started!
Joe, from across the pond in the lovely state of Michigan, asked if we’d be able to do a webcast of the Svengoolie show.
He’s been enjoying our webisodes here on the site, but is too far away from Chicago to get the WCIU signal!(Depending on where he is in Michigan, he might be able to get the WCIU signal- I know some folks right along the lakeshore can get it-or, maybe even get the signal bounced across now from our Me-TV Milwaukee station, if the weather conditions are right-OR, if he’s close enough to South Bend, get the signal from
WMYS) Anyway, right now, the main problem with webcasting the show would be getting the rights to run the movies on the web, at a price that would make it worthwhile for our company…which is also a reason why we don’t sell dvds of the shows- we’d need to get the distribution rights for the movies, which the distributors, for the most part, sell already (without the Sven content, of course.) We have gotten the webcast question quite a few times- who knows? Maybe there’ll be a way to do so down the line.
Adam, who lives out in L.A., asked me about something he saw on Wikipedia, stating that an L.A. station was going to “quietly” give our show a trial run last summer. He was wondering if he missed it, since he felt that it would have helped him with his homesickness, as a transplant out there form this area, and he had noted that one station was running the same movies that we are. He asked if that station was owned by our company. Well, Adam, if it WAS owned by our company- I’d probably be on it. But, no-on actuality, there was never any plan to try out our show there. Someone saw that they were listing the same movies, running on the same weeks there as they were here, and mistakenly jumped to the conclusion that they were running the Sven show. From what I understand, that station, which seems to have taken a lot of cues from our stations, like Me-TV, has ties to Universal, and saw how well we were doing with their old classic films, and decided they’d give it a try. I also heard that they actually got some calls from other Sven fans in the area who had read the same thing, and asked if it was true!
Wow- already burned up the blog space answering just two questions! We’ll try to hit more of them soon-meanwhile, feel free to ask me whatever’s on your mind- you can just hit the “contact Sven” tab at the top of our blog page to get started!
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