‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children’: What Can I Do to Help Save the Soaps?
*** Updated 1-5-12
Let us all acknowledge the wonderful hard work we have accomplished since April 14, 2011. The last episode of “One Life to Live” (to air on ABC), is approaching, and will air on January 13, 2012 (don’t forget to tune into The View as well- it will be all about “OLTL”). It is vital that we absolutely flood ABC with our complaints and messages, especially during this last week of “One Life to Live,” and of course, afterwards, if they still have not come forth with a plan to facilitate the continuation of our soaps through some medium—as they agreed to do on July 7, 2011. It has been quite a rollercoaster, but we have plenty of reason to continue to fight for our soaps. Further, with many of our beloved “OLTL” & “AMC” family cast members at the forefront of our efforts, as well as by our side, we are all the more so empowered, and eternally grateful. There are some very specific efforts you can join if you kindly join/continue in this renewed fight to save the soaps. Many have already come across the quote from Tonja Walker’s radio show, in which she recalls a conversation she recently had with ‘One Life to Live’ Executive Producer Frank Valentini:
"I did speak to Frank last week and asked him, 'Should I continue to encourage them (fans) , or am I just wasting my time and theirs? And he said, 'No, Tonja, there are still people out there who are trying to put a deal together. Keep the... people writing in, keep the people saying they'll support the show.' I said, 'Well, I don't want to feel like a fool, and feel like I'm wasting everybody's time and energy and effort.' And he said, 'No, continue to do it.' If it works, it works - and if it doesn't, we can't say we didn't try."
I hope everyone feels a renewed sense of determination to save our soaps. All rumors, speculations, and reports aside, here are the efforts that we are participating in to save our soaps, and like Frank Valentini said, if it works-then it works, if not- we tried… at this point we have nothing to lose:
• Contact ABC: Ask them to sell our soaps, let them know you want watch the replacements.
NOTE- Feel free to continue contacting Frons, but realize that he should be out of office effective January 2012. Vicki Dummer is his replacement.
Send Letters to these addresses:
Brian Frons
President, ABC Daytime
2300 Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91506
Robert Iger
President and CEO/Walt Disney Company
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
Anne Sweeney
President, ABC Television
ABC Studios
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank CA 91521
Vicki Dummer
3800 West Alameda Avenue
Burbank, CA 91505-4300
Send Emails to these addresses:
Brian.frons@abc.com
Anne.x.Sweeney@email.Disney.com
Vicki Dummer’s twitter: @vickiabc123
Fax Robert Iger- 818-553-7210
Fill out the contact form on ABC’s website: http://abc.go.com/site/contact-us
Call ABC:
Anne Sweeney’s voicemail number: 818.569.7700
Rober Iger's #- 818-460-7020 Press 0 & enter 4566400#
Automated comment line: 818.460.7477
Contact your local stations and file a complaint about ABC taking our soaps off the air: http://site.abc.go.com/site/localstations.html
• Contact NBC: Request that NBC reconsider buying OLTL in particular (because the ratings are great, and it has been reported that NBC was interested in buying OLTL before. Do note that in addition to their network channel, they have 12 cable channels).
Send letters to these addresses:
NBC/Universal- Headquarters
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
Stephen Burke
Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation
Chief Executive Officer, NBCUniversal
C/O Comcast Corporation
1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
One Comcast Center
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Rebecca Marks, Executive Vice President
NBC Universal Television Entertainment Publicity
100 Universal City Plaza, Bldg 1360, FL. 3
Universal City, CA 91608
Send emails to these addresses:
bonnie.hammer@nbcuni.com
ted.harbert@nbcuni.com
frances.berwick@nbcuni.com
Call NBC:
NBC Comment lines: 1-212-664-2333 and 1-818-840-4444
Rebecca Marks Line: 818-777-3030
Additionally, leave NBC a comment directly here under Jerry VerDorn’s thread/post, asking that NBC pick up ‘One Life to Live’ :
http://www.facebook.com/nbc/posts/10150509939065746
Also, leave a comment on NBC’s wall, requesting that they pick up ‘One Life to Live’: http://www.facebook.com/nbc
• Coupon Campaign: If you haven’t participated in the coupon campaign yet, please do so. It is an effort to show that there is a demand for a soap channel. Coupons can be found here: http://sudz.tv/content/coupons-available-download
If you can, please print out extras and disperse them around town. Or help fill them in for your soap fan family members and friends, with their information.
• Join the Various Facebook Pages: Several of these pages might be watched—for the numbers, so please join- numbers count. Plus, the more frequently you are active on the pages, you will be able to keep in the loop about the latest information. Stay connected and let your voice be heard:
o Daytime Fans Unite : http://www.facebook.com/DAYTIMEFANSUNITE
o Fans United Against ABC: http://www.facebook.com/groups/FUABC/
o ***I would pay a network/cable/satellite provider to save my soaps! (PLEASE join this page if you haven’t yet- the numbers are being counted!): http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/200709853303867/
o SWAN- Standing with Agnes Nixon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/198139810275324/
- There are various other pages that make it easy to stay in the loop, and to stay connected to as many fans as possible. Namely the following: Save One Life to Live from Being Canceled, Save All My Children from Being Canceled, Please Don’t Cancel One Life to Live, and Please Don’t Cancel All My Children . Additionally, www.facebook.com/ILoveAllMyChildren and
www.facebook.com/ILoveOLTL have a lot of members, making it easy to stay in contact with other fans (thanks for the info, AmyGordon!).
-The SoapCentral message board is also a wonderful way to stay in the loop and keep in contact with other fans. And for those that would like to 'task,' Boycott ABC 7, on facebook, continue to do so in an organized manner.
Keep watching 'One Life to Live'! The ratings are fantastic.
*If anyone has any questions, needs help with anything- i.e. if you need a sample letter, or noticed that I was incorrect about anything (I stand corrected), please leave a comment.
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