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Old 11-05-2000, 06:51 PM
Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor is offline
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I'm trying to contact Fox TV & complain about the way Futurama is continually canceled or cut in half by Sunday night Football.

My examination of various Fox websites has been fruitless.

I need E-Mail or Snail mail addresses.

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Old 11-05-2000, 07:16 PM
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At least the German town that rose from the ground had the grace to do it every 100 years....

http://www.bignetwork.com/dp/st/ar/19981117.shtml

Football. Sheesh!
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Old 11-05-2000, 07:55 PM
Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor is offline
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This link doesn't lead anyplace except an ad for a ISP.

Anybody else?
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Old 11-05-2000, 08:29 PM
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When I got a satellite dish, I opted for the East/West network feeds. So I get to see it at 10pm if it's pre-empted on the East coast.
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Old 11-05-2000, 08:37 PM
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Find their house and toiletpaper their house with your message.
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Old 11-05-2000, 08:41 PM
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Courtesy of CorporateInformation, for the Fox Entertainment Group,

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
K.R. Murdoch
President & Chief Operating Officer
P. Chernin
Co-Chief Operating Officer
C. Carey
Sr Exec VP & Chief Financial Officer
D.F. Devoe
Secretary
L.A. Jacobs

and mailing address

1211 Avenue Of The Americas
New York, NY 10036
United States
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Old 11-05-2000, 08:44 PM
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Have you been to http://www.fox.com/corporate/ask_fox.html ?
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Old 11-06-2000, 12:47 AM
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You could move to the Pacific time zone. "Futurama" is never preempted by football out here.
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Old 11-06-2000, 10:17 AM
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Or you can do a WHOIS fox.com

Youll get a wonderful list of people, phone numbers, fax numbers, etc...also try you library Directory of Associations or whatever it would be, your librarian would know. Faxing is effective, I don't think Email does much.
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Old 11-06-2000, 11:00 AM
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How to find a Fox executive:

Go down to the wharves. Near the end of the pier, you will find large barrels of fish offal. Some of these barrels will appear to be empty. Listen carefully. Hear that 'scritch-scritch-scritch'? That's a sure sign a Fox executive is inside, scraping away. In order to lure one out, you may have to pretend to be a possible candidate for one of their shows. Try the following call: "NOdignatEEE…NOdignatEEE…" Good luck!


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Old 11-06-2000, 11:17 AM
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Canceled?

Do they really cancel Futurama nowadays on the East Coast. I've been living on the West Coast since 1997, but I remember the pain of the Simpsons being delayed because the late afternoon football game ran over.

I don't recall what used to be on at 6pm Central (America's Funniest Car Accidents maybe?) on Sundays on Fox back in the day but I don't recall that it was ever canceled because of football, just pushed back an indeterminate number of minutes.

I suppose that sucks if you are no at home and are trying to record the Sunday night block of programming for later viewing but I don't see why you can't bite your lip through the end of a football game.

By the way, short of maybe convincing Fox to move Futurama to another night, football will always win this battle. Sorry.
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Old 11-06-2000, 12:55 PM
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no on the east coast they don't push stuff back any more. I taped Futurama last night and got like 10 minutes of it!?! Oh but if you DO get through to the damn people tell them to STOP showing the same Simpsons over and over and over. I saw one about a month ago that was on once Monday then again on Tuesday.
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