A Picture is Worth a
Thousand Words. When it comes to showing your support or disapproval of a
program, writing a letter or sending an email can make a difference if a good or
bad show will become a success or a failure.
How often do we hear people
say, “That series was excellent, or that show was insulting?” Networks
and sponsors count on viewers, and they need to receive letters of praise and
complaints of condemnation.
Many people do not realize
how important writing a letter is, which can determine if a good or bad show
remains on TV/Cable.
You can sign petitions, but
writing a personal letter and sending copies of that post to the companies that
sponsor those programs will put the decision-makers on notice.
Producers, filmmakers,
directors, and networks rely on sponsors who look at the profit margins. If
viewership is low, chances are the program will be put on hold or canceled.
Many decision-makers may never give a new program a chance, to grow a large
viewing audience if the show is good.
Let us suppose a major
network is planning to produce a reality show that is found to
be undesirable, this is where the spectator can exercise his or her
influence by writing that letter of disapproval, refusing to buy the sponsors’
products or canceling their subscription to a particular cable or movie
channel. Money talks and no money talks.
For every correspondence a
person sends to a TV/Cable company, one hundred people will not write.
Unfortunately, no one can tell whether those people liked the show or
didn’t.