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Do you know who I am?
I am a battle that gets tired of fighting!
Do you know what I did?
I had an idea whose time had come!
To all of those…
My friends, my many friends…
Do you know what I was?
A TV show that appealed to all kinds.
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20090821
20090802
Looking Back #1
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It was in May of 2007 when the Nuts campaign kicked off to save Jericho from certain death. I had only one week before began tearing through the episodes online, basking in the warm glow of being able to watch what I wanted on demand and at the cost of only a couple of short commercials. Jericho was my kind of show; it had action that was based in a compelling reality and larger than life characters who somehow seemed excruciatingly human. It was an actor’s action adventure with thoughtful writing set in a part of the country where hit shows never showed their face.
So, I guess I was kind of naïve to think that my affection for the show would be shared by enough Nielsen families to keep it on the air. Almost a week to the day after discovering Jericho there I was, discovering it had been cancelled and spelunking into my first ever forum. The CBS Jericho forum was something of a cave. There were trolls there and helpful spirits and much like the show that its inhabitants had gathered to celebrate, there was grace under pressure. One of the most gracious and indeed graceful folks there went by the name of Schumi. She had a way with words and gave the group a focus that I honestly doubt would have been possible without her. She was one of those people who is in the right place and time to make a difference and then does. She let a calm head prevail and placed her faith in the polite and well spoken. I was impressed with her then and remain so two years down the line.
She was the first of many strong women I would come to realize were at the helm of the save Jericho Campaign.
20090727
20090114
Junction
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If you are involved with a Jericho Site you would like to see listed on Jericho Junction please leave the address in the comments below.
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20081202
Cousin T's Tool Shed - Episode 5
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A few of my favorite things...
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Miss Edna's Mermaid Story
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The main page at RFJ. Those Thumbnails/Icons of Jericho are out of this world! Well chosen and beautifully balanced.
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Rich Becker retires a presentation.
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1920's Radio
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We called him Old Billy.
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The aerial shot of Pomona fairground discovered for us by Ratkeeper.
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Jericho - The Ending That Never Was
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20081201
20081130
Operation Phoenix Update
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Thanks go to Redsox for the following:
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Fellow Rangers today is the Big Day. Jericho Returns to Network Television to the CW for what we all hope is a 29 week run of Season 1 and 2 straight through the end of May 2009.
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As I said in my original post in Operation Phoenix following the Ranger Meeting at UHD on November 20th, this is all about the numbers, Nielsen and Feedback letters and comments via the feedback forms.
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Back on November 8th we started out to get Jericho back into the forefront as we were gearing up to launch the TV AD on UHD which begins tomorrow on UHD Network for a 4 week run. Thanks to Norsu we found out that CBS had put Season 1 out on Youtube. We decided to include that as part of our marketing strategy to get people watching Jericho again in as many forums as possible including UHD and Youtube. We began our campaign of post to community, college, scifi Boards, social networks like Face Book and Myspace to try and get the word out that Jericho was not dead but was still a very viable show.
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I had set some goals with regard to numbers, with getting 50,000 people to view Jericho on Youtube by December 14 and hitting 10,000 posts on the UHD Board by November 30. Both of these goals have been reached. Both are significant numbers as we are starting to see the grass roots movement pick up speed. Like a wave that starts out slowly and continues to build until it finally crests we want to see the numbers continue to climb each week during the 29 week run on the CW, on UHD and the UHD Board and on Youtube.
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This is different than any Campaign we have undertaken before, Our Goals are simple, we need to get people to sit down and watch Jericho on the CW, right now we are focusing on getting the word out that the show is starting with the Pilot on November 30, 2008 on the CW at 7:00pm EST.
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Once the show starts we need to send CBS and CW Feedback via the Feed back forms.
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CW Feedback Form http://cwtv.com/feedback/comments
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CBS Feedback Form http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php
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We are also sending our letters and cards to Nancy Tellem (CBS Paramount) and Bonnie Hammer (NBC Universal) each Monday and to Dawn Ostroff (CW) and D'Arcy Rudnay at Comcast each Thursday. The purpose is 2 fold, one make a business argument to continue the show and the second is to get our collective voices recorded and counted.
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We are dealing with finance and numbers people (bean counters) plain and simple.
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I know that Dark Crystal and Rat Keeper have some ideas about doing better feedback letters so check out JNET and JKI. Important information to give is your age, gender, household size, profession what are your television viewing habits and your desire that CBS put Jericho back on the air with a movie and new episodes.
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It has a been a long road and many have come and gone since March 2008, but with CBS putting the show on the CW we have a real chance to speak directly to the Executives and Bean counters at CBS Paramount, NBC Universal, Comcast and other Networks that Jericho is a viable, money making commodity worth continuing.
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Make no mistake about it all of our efforts have made a difference, the Bill Board and TV Ads have caught the Executives attention, or realistically Jericho would not be on UHD nor would the CW be putting back on the air. But it is the simple things that will win the day and take only a few minutes time.
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Each Sunday complete the Feedback Form for CBS and The CW. Each Monday and Thursday send out your post cards or letters. Watch Jericho each week on the CW and UHD if you can and spread the word and help continue the Jericho wave to grow in strength until it crashes over the Seawall into the CBS Paramount Offices and results in their decision to continue the Jericho story.
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Every body who has been a part of this community, no matter if they joined the UHD Board last week or have been here since 2006 has contributed. Although it was Dark and all seemed Lost there were a core of people who kept the torch going over the summer and into the Fall.
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I for one am glad that I stuck around to see what is Happening. Jericho is on 2 Networks, THE CW and UHD (NBC Universal), our TV AD is playing on UHD for 4 weeks, New people are Discovering the show and old ones are reconnecting. Jericho Lives into the Spring of 2009.
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How many reading this post would have said that 3 weeks ago? It sounds good to me. See you all at the Ranger Rally tonight at the CW Board at 7:00pm.
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Redsox1986
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20081129
20081126
Megaphone!!!
20081125
jericholinks.com closes up shop
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A treasure trove collection of Jericho links from the early days of the save Jericho campaign has gone dark. Jericholinks.com had become something of a museum piece with many of its own links leading to dead internet ends but the text based page is a perfect candidate for viewing via the internet archive and its way back machine.
For those of you who are interested you can also view the Jericho Message Board at various moments in its evolution on the way back machine. To my surpise some threads actually opened up to one page. Avatars appear briefly as well. Check it out HERE.
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jenningsandrall.com up for grabs
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Well built and interesting the Jennings and Rall website is no more. Do you remember how it thrilled us to discover its existance on the web?
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We should take it over and recreate the original CBS Jericho message board there. It was also a visual treat and a wonderful example of how willing the network was in the beginning to allow Jericho to take on a life of its own.
reality bytes
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It is a tenuous relationship when flattery gains you more ground than constructive criticism.
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20081123
Cousin T's Tool Shed - Episode 4
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This week I discovered…
…doing something to make your home life better, easier or more efficient makes your life away from home better as well.
…Badger hand balm.
…The skeleton of an animal in the unused doghouse. It had curled in a ball and may have belonged to a fox.
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20081122
Thought Bubble
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Occupied by strangers, rangers and danger.
Set where hit shows are afraid to go.
Grand ambitions with cunning revisions.
Long campaign with forgotten names. 20081121
Seen 'em come and seen 'em go and seen 'em come back.
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It appears ABC has cancelled Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone and Pushing Daisy’s while 4 more episodes of Life on Mars have been ordered and the show will move to Wednesday at ten following Lost which simply must be a better timeslot for a time traveling cop show than following Grey’s Anatomy. I hope the audience follows and grows
BUT the big news this week is that the CW will begin re-airing the episodic, post apocalyptic, fan favorite Jericho on Sunday nights. This news, coupled with the recent lockout of fans from the CBS Jericho board has some speculating that the 2 events are somehow linked. Stay Tuned...
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20081119
Jericho Personal Messages
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The Jericho Junction will be hosting Jericho Personal Messages. The subject matter could be anything one Jericho fan wants to communicate to another. Examples:
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To my friends from the CBS board thanks for the memories - Terocious
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Bonnie lover seeking others equally smitten to join Bonnie Yahoo Group.
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Jericho Dojo - Where Jericho and martial arts meet. Signup at jerichodojo.com
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Think of it like the personal messages of your local paper and just like those services Jericho Junction reserves the right to refuse to publish a personal message or to delete objectionable words or phrases. I promise to be as fair as possible.
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You can send personal messages to terocious66@gmail.com
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20081118
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?
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Poof! Someone somewhere presses a button and everything changes...
I am not even a huge Elton John Fan but to mark these potentially significant occasions I have chosen his words twice now. I cannot Imagine why this would be, so, I looked him up on wikipedia and found EJ's life and career to be a wild ride through the full spectrum of experience.
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This has also been the case for me with the Jericho community. It has been a truly wild ride and I am drained by it all to the point of no longer feeling much of anything.
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Simply stated, this is a now journey that for me has reached a natural conclusion. I admit I stubbornly held onto my vision for our cause longer than perhaps I should have. Truth be told it was never my vision that mattered. All that really matters, in my estimation, is that despite the constant nagging evidence of our fragile and individual humanity we changed the world as though we were one.
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20081117
20081114
Cousin T's Tool Shed - Episode 2
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Everywhere I look I see something that I’ve learned
and in everything I‘ve learned I see something that I looked at first
and thought about.
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Most everything I’ve done I am bound to do again
So I try, if I can, to lock it all in.
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But if I can’t make it stick
I let the feeling that I felt
when I figured something out
help
me
retrace
my
steps
past
doubt.
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