Drop day for October Road, great things happening!

So today is the next drop day in the letter campaign to ABC/Disney. They should be gettting all your letters today. Not to mention all the emails sent last night. Don't forget to call and leave a message for them as well. I wanted to mention the great need for every single October Road fan to join the Yahoo group page. This is the only place I know of that I can go and send out emails to everyone. If you sign up, make sure you check the box that allows you to get group emails. Once a person posts a message there, it gets emailed to all 92 memebers if they allow that. I am really worried that people are not getting the word that we are still fighting. Having one place to go to get an email put in everybodies inbox is the key, IMO. I can't stress it enough! Why, because I needed that reminder this week & I didn't get the email so I missed the drop date for today. That is no one's fault, but I don't want that to happen for any fan of October Road. So since we don't get emails from the message boards, the Yahoo Group is our only source for this kind of alert! Please see my links list for the Yahoo group link. Click on it and join, please, please, I am begging everyone!! We have to thank Donna V. for getting her wonderful friend to blog for October Road again. She has blogged a number of times now for October Road, and today is a great one. I have listed her blog link on the OR bloggers list to the left. But I am going to include it here also, please go and leave a comment thanking her for talking about October Road. It means so much to the promotions of the show! Here's the link: http://writerrae.typepad.com/my_weblog/ In closing if you could find your way to the links list for the polls to vote at today that would be so great. It is also listed on the left. Ok, well that's all I have for today's entry. Thank you all for everything you are doing! I just love that we are still all working as a team!

HEY I'M A DORK!!! Mail won't run on Sunday's, even for OCTOBER ROAD!

So, here I am on a very beautiful Saturday morning, enjoying a much needed sleep in, when all of a sudden I wake up to realize, MAIL DOES NOT RUN ON SUNDAY'S!!! If I am to take into consideration that my local post office is always slow and running behind I have to mail my letters today, before 12 noon Pacific Standard Time!

YIKESSSS, YEEP, I BETTER GET TO TYPING.My plan is to send 5 letters to Ms. Sweeney and 5 letters to Mr. McPherson. I have two letters to do for my mother and sister. They were part of the Pay October Road Forward campaign and they are to busy to do letters themselves. I of course will be having them sign them.

So if you are like me and live in the Northern part of California you might want to consider mailing your letters for the October Road campaign, today. But if you are reading this, it is probably to late anyway, so have heart. I'm sure your post office isn't as back woods as mine and mailing your letters on the 9th will be fine for you! OK, got to rush off now! I've only got about an hour & 1/2 left to get them posted. Woooo HOOO October Road!!!Tootle Pip Everyone!

P.S. I did it! I got them all in the mail by 12:15pm PST. I sent 6 letters to Mcpherson, 5 from me and one from my sister Amy. I sent 7 letters to Ms. Sweeney, 6 were from me, and one from my sister Amy. All the letters were different. I did send two letters to each covering McPherson's quote to E-Online's Kristen. Any whoo, glad I got them out today!

October Road ratings, numbers, graphs, and all the stuff I don't get!

I love the new blog post at www.about.com by Rachel. It was so good to get on this morning and find that link in my in box. She said some really great things about October Road and it's fan's. I love the statement about the Nielsen Ratings being less then correct. Here's the link to the article, leave a comment if you can. http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-

I also wanted to mention again how great it is to see our numbers at Hey Nielsen be so much better. They might have dropped a bit yesterday, but the past five days we have been doing pretty good.

I was doing some digging at the website www.tvbynumbers.com because I wanted to see our numbers for October Road. What I found there was a bunch of numbers I didn't know what they meant. I didn't want to risk looking even more stupid, so I can tell you this. Our numbers were not high enough to make ABC bring October Road back instead of Wife Swap. I can tell you that some of our rankings were so close to Wife Swap I'd like to scream.

But the site is based only on Nielsen ratings. I don't think they are as accurate as they say they are. I really believe the numbers for our show were a bit higher. It looks like we pulled a 3.4 million viewership for the finally. I thought it was a 3.5 but one tenth off ain't that bad.

I think the key to getting people to watch October Road is advertising. I think we are the key to that advertising. Word of mouth, blogging, Internet posting, and all out shameless plugging is what this show needed.

I sure wish I would of known last Season my show was in trouble. A simple heads up by the network in a commercial would of been great. Why don't more networks do that, run a 30 second spot on all the shows they are thinking of canceling??? I mean let us know so we can take action soon enough to make a difference. If we had been working from day one on the Pay October Road Forward campaign, I think so many more people would of been reached.

Well that is all water under the bridge now! We are focusing on asking ABC/Disney to give us another chance, to bring these numbers up. They brought Wife Swap and October Road was right on their heals for ratings, that I don't get. My sister said maybe it's cuz the whole family can watch Wife Swap! She changed her answer quickly when I looked at her with disgust and confussion. She said, "Oh maybe not all the time!" LOL.

Tell me what you think about this subject of Nielsen ratings, numbers, and what they mean to our fight to bring October Road back to television.

Ok, end of Rant!