Thanks to everyone who has contributed their dollars and their support for three runs of the Save Jericho Again TV ad — twice on various cable channels via Time-Warner in LA and soon on UHD across the nation.  

All who donated at least $20 during the course of the campaign had their names thrown in the hat during our SJA Chat tonight, and five names were chosen as winners of a DVD featuring the TV commercial and the great work of RP:

Ann Walton of University Heights, OH

Hilda Bowen (PBMom) of The Woodlands, TX

Cynthia Riggins of Concord, CA

Gregg Thompson of Boca Raton, FL

Elizabeth Stinebaugh (PV544) of Albuquerque, NM

Congrats to our winners!  RP will be shipping those DVDs out soon. 

To the rest of you…many thanks for all your loyalty and support!  Your trust in us has been nothing short of humbling.

- Julie/Welcome

For someone who works so hard for his family, his business, his church, all of us, and Jericho, you don’t get much of a break, do you?  Well, we’d like for that to change — if only a brief respite.  And that’s what we’re offering you, Jason.  Some rest and relaxation for a weekend with Mrs. RP in some place called Easton, where we’ve heard that you have spent a pleasant getaway weekend before.  We figured that, for all you do for us, it’s time that we do for you. 

Sooooo….many, many Jericho Rangers who have supported the Save Jericho Again TV ad campaign in various ways are coming together tonight to say a collective “Thank you!” and to show you how much we appreciate the sacrifices we know you’ve made on behalf of us and our favorite show Jericho. 

Please accept this gift put together especially for the Moore family as just a small token of gratitude from the entire membership of the Save Jericho Again team from around the world:

• A gift certificate from Marriott Hotels
• A gift certificate for Mrs. RP to Kohl’s (this is just for HER)
• A gift certificate to Toys’R Us for your son and soon-to-arrive daughter (our card to the little Moores reads: “Thank you for letting us ‘borrow’ your daddy!”)
• A gift certificate to Texas Roadhouse, which we hear is a fave of yours
• A gift certificate to Barnes & Noble

Thank you for sharing your valuable time, incredible talents, and wonderful friendship with all of us.  You have helped build this ‘family,’ and we want to make sure that you know how much we appreciate it…..if we haven’t already!  You are a blessing to us and everyone else associated with Jericho. 

– Julie/Welcome

Never let it be said that moss grows under a Jericho Ranger’s feet!  Now that the 10-day run of our Save Jericho Again TV ads have wrapped up, and many other campaigns, such the Variety ad, billboard, several great  humanitarian efforts, balloons and cake, and various nutty endeavors, have reached a conclusion, we’ve got to keep the momentum going. We’ve made some noise, and we’re being noticed, but our work is not over yet.

That’s why we’re moving into Round 2 of the TV ad campaign. Thanks to a very generous offer by PMary and Jeff Knoll to help us make some quick bucks and purchase more air time, we are offering for auction eight Jericho scripts from Season 2’s “Termination for Cause,” personally signed by that episode’s central players Brad Beyer and D.B. Sweeney, on eBay. 

PMary and Jeff successfully auctioned off other Jericho items through eBay to fund the Variety and billboard campaigns, and they are graciously doing the same to help fund us more ads and get more eyes on Rubberpoultry’s fantastic Save Jericho Again commercial.  We won’t be able to purchase as large a media schedule as before, but based on what we bring in through the eBay auction, we can certainly seek additional targeted airtime and supplement our continuing letter- and postcard-writing campaigns. 

So, if you want to own a script that showcased “Stanley” and “Goetz” in some of the finest and most moving TV I’ve seen in years, take a look at this.  At the same time, you’ll be contributing to Save Jericho Again.  Time is limited, and we have only a couple of days to get the word out and seek the best price on these valuable scripts bearing the John Hancock of Brad, our fabulous commercial voice-over guy!

We’ve also installed a Donate link here for anyone else who may want to contribute to this second run of the commercial. 

Our heartfelt thanks to PMary and Jeff for this generous donation and great idea! Our heartfelt thanks also to all of you who have contributed or supported the TV ad and other efforts in various ways.  It’s great to see all efforts coming together to Save Jericho Again! 

– Julie/Welcome2CHO

If you’ve ever wondered if you’re simply a lone voice in the wilderness, especially when it comes to loving and promoting Jericho, please take heart!  Your collective voices have been heard, and thanks to your overwhelming response with insightful comments and Diggs to this week’s Fancast piece, your words, thoughts and actions as a Jericho Ranger are going to be experienced louder and stronger than ever before.

Here are a couple of excerpts from an e-mail received from Julia Diddy, columnist for Sci Fi Tracker at Fancast.com:

Hi Julie!  Hi gang!  Well, my editor and others at Fancast were so pleased by the reaction to the Jericho column, they’ve given me the greenlight to give this regular coverage……what you’re doing is exciting stuff, and we’d love to help you get the word out.

In a later e-mail, she added:

Fancast would love to continue to profile the ongoing campaign to find Jericho a new home.  There was a great reception to the article [“Behind the Scenes of the ‘Save Jericho’ Campaign”] regarding the fight to save Jericho thus far.  The campaign is obviously a saga in its own right.  I would love to find out from others involved – producers, writers, cast…what the Save Jericho campaign has meant to them, how it is casting a light on changes that need to be made within the television industry (outdated Nielsen measurement methods, etc.), how this grassroots campaign is breaking new ground, etc.

If you’re unfamiliar with Fancast, here are a few tidbits provided by Julia:

• Owned by Comcast (Did you hear me?  Owned by Comcast?  Ring a bell?  Haven’t we written a postcard or two…..or thousands…..to Comcast?)
• With a goal of being the best video aggregator, but unlike sites such as Hulu, Fancast has robust editorial, i.e. columns, articles, great info and insightful commentary
• Officially launched last January, with unique views hovering at 3 million last month alone (Unique views?  See previous “Jericho Love is Universal” blog J)
• A very active sci-fi genre on the site in terms of shows and the shows’ fans

So, be on the lookout for more columns highlighting our community and our efforts to preserve Jericho and what’s left of quality TV programming!  You spoke out with lots of passion, commitment, and obvious intelligence, plus a good dose of appreciation for Julia’s article, and see what it got you??  Let’s continue to tell the Jericho story, and please show the love to Fancast for giving us the opportunity.

Julie/Welcome2CHO

Not that I’m the sharpest knife in the drawer or the most educated in all that is the World Wide Web, but I’m still pretty impressed with today’s stats related to hits on this Save Jericho Again site.  Since I’m no expert, I will let the universal Jericho love speak for itself:

•  7,380 Visits
• 22, 531 Page Views
• 5,035 Absolute Unique Visitors (that means if you visited here only once or even 20 times from the same IP address, you are counted as one unique visitor)
• Views from 59 countries and territories

Let’s take a look at who’s interested in Save Jericho Again, ranked by number of hits:

1. USA
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. Poland
5. Germany
6. France
7. Spain
8. Australia
9. Hungary
10. Romania
11. Croatia
12. Ireland
13. Czech Republic
14. Sweden
15. Italy
16. Slovenia
17. Brazil
18. Netherlands
19. Belgium
20. New Zealand
21. Norway
22. Slovakia
23. Portugal
24. Israel
25. Greece

Other countries represented include: Serbia, Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Japan, Algeria, Lithuania, Iceland, Finland, Ukraine, Chile, Hong Kong, South Africa, South Korea, Peru, Uruguay, Luxembourg, Ghana, Reunion (WHERE is Reunion??), China, Argentina, Panama, Latvia, Cyprus, Guam, China, Egypt, Malaysia, Maldives, Taiwan, and the Phillipines. 

It IS a small world, after all!  Let’s keep fighting for Jericho!  This story of love, family, and community that sustains us even in the toughest of times is truly universal. 

One other exciting tidbit for the day — Jericho, The Second Season DVD is on the move, as of 8:00 PM 6/18:

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Popular in these categories: (What’s this?)

 – Julie/Welcome2CHO

Over the course of the last few days, I’ve had a number of requests for a downloadable version of the spot at a higher resolution. Now that I’ve finally found the time to make that happen, it’s online and ready for download. It’s the next best thing to being in LA in front of a Time Warner Cable subscriber’s TV.

You can get the file right here! (You may have to load QuickTime to view it).

Happy Viewing!

-Rubberpoultry