Letter to WVTV

[borghe]

Posted to WB18 on their website:

I am absolutely offended. This will now be my 4th email that I have sent to your station trying to find out information on your HDTV plans. I was pleasant and honestly interested in what you may have had to say, but now I know what you truly think of your viewers.

I want you to know that I won't accept this insult lightly. If you choose to ignore me along with the rest of your viewers who are interested in HDTV, I will simply take my case to the public. If you refuse to respond within a reasonable amount of time I will submit letters to local competing televsion stations as well as radio, to look into why you're company feels you are above serving your viewers. I'm sure your competitors would love to exploit the fact that while they have all worked within the guidelines laid out by the FCC to get a DTV signal on the air, you are attempting yet another extension to delay your roll out into next year. what an advantage for them. If your competitors themselves aren't interested, I am sure the viewing public of Milwaukee certainly might be.

They way you serve your community is outrageous. You care nothing about viewer satisfaction and only about maximizing profits. Well, it's about time that the rest of Milwaukee was let in on your plans. I guess being that you don't feel the need to inform them that I will.

Thank you for not answering any of my original three emails. This way seems like it will be much more interesting.

Sincerely,
Eric Borgh

[ReesR]

Eric:

I should have done this too but I just remembered something. Emails do not get put into the "public" file which a station must do if they receive a snail letter from the public. They simply can not throw that letter out. This then can be reviewed at license renewal time or whenever an inspection by the FCC occurs. In other words it will carry more weight. So, maybe a snail mail version might be in order.

[borghe]

Point taken. I normally never do snail mail. Arggh... Will start though. Must. Have. HD. Smallville.

[Greg Oman]

I guess they don't think that they have any quality programming that's deserving of a quality delivery mechanism....

Greg O.

(That, or their poor Kenny)

[techboywi]

Channel 18 does not do their own website, all Sinclair O&O'd stations that I've seen use something called "SuperCast" The webmaster email address probably goes to someone at the service that builds/maintains the website, and no one at the station.

A snail mail letter would have a much better chance of actually getting to someone at the station, than an email that is most likely routed to /dev/null

[Tom Snyder]

Snail Mail ALWAYS creates a greater impression. I've even heard that elected representaives hardly ever pay attention to their emails. Becasue of PAC's and lobbyists and extremeist whackos, all of which set up barrages of emails from fake addresses to bombard them with constituent "feedback," they simply ignore most of it.

I have to think that TV stations are probably the same...