Can You Hear Me Now? Comcast’s Fancast Can!
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campaign has meant to them, how it is casting a light on changes that need to be made within the television industry (outdated Nielsen measurement methods, etc.), how this grassroots campaign is breaking new ground, etc.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