CA CA - Bob Harrod, 81, Orange County, 27 July 2009 - #13

[zwiebel]

You've come to the same conclusion I did. You just did it a lot quicker, and a lot funnier.

 

[wantjustice]

Why they pulled the 4 episodes- is that what you mean?

Yes those four and if they were canceling the whole show for future seasons. So many people were complaining on FB, I would be surprised if it didn't have great ratings. We need shows that spotlight the missing. If it gets cancelled, I hope some network picks up a similar show .

 

[zwiebel]

I can't find any individual ratings for shows - I don't know if they release them. I'm sure that if the series is cancelled, the completed, unshown episodes will work their way out. Maybe through outlets in other countries where the show is more popular.

I suppose if the US airings get cancelled again, we could post links in the media thread to other countries' TV schedules, to make it easier to check up on which episodes are showing and avoid another Ozgate. If it shows in Germany, you're all invited to watch it at my house. The lights'll be on, I'll be home, and you'll all get a warm welcome!

 

[believe09]

I dont know the specifics of their ratings, but clearly they have a world wide audience. What if they are extending their season instead of being a small network show with limited episodes?

 

[Mountain Misst]

Cable tv isn't huge in Aus, which explains the multiple repeats - demographically challenged is how they put it ie too small a population to make it a money spinner for more than one cable company to exist in the market. We have one tenth US population.

Free to Air tv is pretty good, although what's on cable would be contractually tied up with cable, so doubt we'll get to see mainstream.

If you hear of it being aired in Aus again give me ahoy by PM and I'll get a local tech-savvy person to copy as I'm not 'en-cabled' - too busy on websleuths.

Am 1,000km from EL, sorry mate.

 

[zwiebel]

Thanks Mountain Misst. As far as I can see, in England some ID programmes air on pay tv and free-to-air as well. It looks like the pay tv just gets to see the most recent ones first, and freeview gets the older repeats.

 

[zwiebel]

I hope Bob's not still missing this July, but if he is, I wonder if it would be possible for us to organise something that will mark the day he went missing, and highlight how long he has been gone?

I don't think it could be a candlight vigil or anything because Bob had such a small social circle and his supporters are so scattered. I'm sure we could think of something orginal though.

Unless his daughters have already got this in hand of course.

 

[zwiebel]

The Orange Count Sheriff's Department Cold Case Unit was disbanded in 2004 due to budget cuts! Aargh! I didn't even know they had one and now I'm 9 years too late anyway.

Excuse me while I just go and bury my head in my snow-covered terrace outside, won't you? My brain's overheated.

 

[Cubby]

I hope Bob's not still missing this July, but if he is, I wonder if it would be possible for us to organise something that will mark the day he went missing, and highlight how long he has been gone?

I don't think it could be a candlight vigil or anything because Bob had such a small social circle and his supporters are so scattered. I'm sure we could think of something orginal though.

Unless his daughters have already got this in hand of course.

BBM. Don't hold your breath. Any vigils for Bob are filed with the timeline and clothing he was last seen wearing, at least as far as his daughters go. Along with an endless list of why they can't or it won't work....

 

[zwiebel]

That doesn't put me off. I'm always trying things that don't work. I just try again a different way, until they do. Even if it's something simple like sending out emails to media who have covered Bob's case before, reminding them the anniversary's coming up, it might help keep his case out there.

Although with luck, an arrest/s will have been made by then and Bob's case will be hitting the headlines anyway.

 

[Cubby]

While I don't know about anything for the anniversary, when we have a definate air date for the Disappeared episode, I would like to have an email campaign to all the media outlets who have covered Bob's case. With the hopes they will publish and air the information about the upcoming show ahead of time.

Maybe we should research which cable providers are available in Orange and San Bernardino Counties and check and post which channel carries ID. Make it easier to find? Thoughts?

 

[zwiebel]

Great idea! And have a list of media email addresses ready, and a pre-prepared email ready for us to send?

 

[Cubby]

Great idea! And have a list of media email addresses ready, and a pre-prepared email ready for us to send?

That or maybe even better would be a press release from PPD to all the media outlets that covered Bob's case, or both?

I kind of like the idea of doing both, the email campaign and a press release from PPD. It demonstrates to the media there are still many people interested in this case and seeing it solved.

 

[zwiebel]

I dream about press releases for Bob. Do we have anyone here who might be the best person to politely request that from PPD? A press release from the police, even if it is very short, stands much more chance of making it into a news story than emails from concerned citizens (unless there's thousands). I do think both would be well worth doing though, and anything else we can think of.

 

[zwiebel]

I'll happily hunt down the emails for media, but I really, really don't want to search for cable providers in CA. Maybe it's because I was brought up in a country, at a time, when we had three channels and they all closed down by midnight whilst playing the national anthem. At which point half of England stood to attention for the Queen, in their living rooms, in their dressing gowns and slippers, mug of cocoa in hand.....no, really, they did. Or thought they were real rebels if they didn't.

Maybe a younger, local CA poster more at ease with these inventions called cables and satellites and freeview could help out here?

 

[Mountain Misst]

I dream about press releases for Bob. Do we have anyone here who might be the best person to politely request that from PPD? A press release from the police, even if it is very short, stands much more chance of making it into a news story than emails from concerned citizens (unless there's thousands). I do think both would be well worth doing though, and anything else we can think of.

Can I stick my bib in here. Forgive me if this is already covered. A lot of smaller news stories in Aus just go out on the wire - AAP. The regional newspapers subscribe to the wire and pick up their fillers from it.

 

[Mountain Misst]

I'll happily hunt down the emails for media, but I really, really don't want to search for cable providers in CA. Maybe it's because I was brought up in a country, at a time, when we had three channels and they all closed down by midnight whilst playing the national anthem. At which point half of England stood to attention for the Queen, in their living rooms, in their dressing gowns and slippers, mug of cocoa in hand.....no, really, they did. Or thought they were real rebels if they didn't.

Maybe a younger, local CA poster more at ease with these inventions called cables and satellites and freeview could help out here?

:floorlaugh: me too Zwiebel or the alternative - woken by God Save the Queen after falling asleep on the lounge/sofa and staggered off to bed.

 

[zwiebel]

:floorlaugh: me too Zwiebel or the alternative - woken by God Save the Queen after falling asleep on the lounge/sofa and staggered off to bed.

We're getting all nostalgic here but really - you've got to have lived through it to appreciate it. Or laugh at it, depending on your point of view.....

 

[believe09]

Press releases arent limited to LE-for example, Websleuths releases stories to the press. I know that Bob's story has the full support of the owners and I think we might see some press releases as we move closer to an airdate. There were some things in the works until the date of the show changed.

 

[zwiebel]

Can I stick my bib in here. Forgive me if this is already covered. A lot of smaller news stories in Aus just go out on the wire - AAP. The regional newspapers subscribe to the wire and pick up their fillers from it.

This is absolutely true. But in my experience as an editor of publications with limited budgets and a tight deadline, I know that someone submitting a well-written story at the last minute, who didn't require payment and whose word-count was already tailored to one of the usual spaces I would have to fill......well, editor's dream, you might say.