Pittsburgh to Host Ten GL Cast Members
and Fans In Special Event
So Long, Springfield” is a daylong farewell to the beloved and longest running television show of all time, The Guiding Light. While adoring fans are tearful that the longest running show in history has been cancelled, the “LIGHT” is not completely extinguished. Due to air it’s final episode in mid-September, the show won’t go dark without appropriate fanfare—very much due this beloved soap opera and it’s cherished characters.
So Long, Springfield” is a once in a lifetime event, featuring ten of The Guiding Light’s most popular stars. Fans will enjoy memorable, up-close-and-personal time with the stars, and have a last opportunity to say goodbye and send good wishes to the real people that portray the characters they’ve come to know and love.
Why Pittsburgh? Because this Pennsylvania city and its suburbs boast possibly the most loyal fan base in the United States…even the actorsknow it! In fact, each of the actors participating felt that Pittsburgh should be the market for this memorable fan event.
WHO:
* KIM ZIMMER (Reva Shayne)
* ROBERT NEWMAN (Josh Lewis)
* DANIEL COSGROVE (Bill Lewis)
* FRANK DICOPOULOS (Frank Cooper)
* GINA TOGNONI (Dinah Marler)
* JEFF BRANSON (Shayne Lewis)
* GRANT ALEKSANDER (Phillip Spaulding)
* RON RAINES (Alan Spaulding)
* BRADLEY COLE (Jeffrey O’Neill)
* JORDAN CLARKE (Billy Lewis)
WHEN: Saturday, October 24th
* 1:00 – 5:00 PM Participants will attend an insightful and moving question & answer session, learn behind the scenes secrets from a Guiding Light director and meet, greet and pose for photos with the stars. Several lucky fans will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to act out actual scenes from real Guiding Light scripts with the stars themselves!
* 4:00 – 8:00 PM Vendor tables open
* 7:00 – 10:00 PM The evening festivities are designed to be a special, musical farewell, where several of the actors will perform vocal numbers, and share memories from their years on The Guiding Light with their loyal fans. A light strolling dinner will begin the evening.
WHERE: Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport
COST: Daytime Only or Evening Only $75.00 or Stay for the Day $140.00
HOW to REGISTER: Click REGISTER NOW and follow prompts for secure purchase by major credit card. You may also call 1-866-364-0330. Tickets will not be issued—please bring picture ID and computer confirmation to receive wristband for admittance on the day of the event.
A portion of the proceeds from “So Long, Springfield” will be donated to The Young Women’s Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
CALL NBC EVENT
Subject: New campaign from daysfan1965 @ SOC
"Save Guiding Light" NBC Call-In Event - This Friday, 7/10 at 4pm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have begun the "Save Guiding Light" NBC Call-In Event" to take effect this Friday, 7/10 at 4pm. Guiding Light airs in various affiliates from 10am - 4pm. Immediately after the final broadcast of Fridays episode, fans of Guiding Light will call into NBC's Comment Line to have them pick up Guiding Light.
Please, only post your positive beliefs so we take drastic steps towards this movement. If we get enough fans to call in at that time (and even after), they will consider the calls rather than disregard them.
I called Jeff Zucker's contact that I had posted in the contract thread. Obviously, he won't pick up, and I was directed to the comment line, where I left my message.
One message will not cut it, but hundreds will.
Please call 212-664-4444 for an indirect line which will direct you to the NBC Viewer Contact Line.
Or just call the NBC Viewer Contact Line directly at 212-664-2333.
Soapmom, please put this out there! You did such a great job with your rally! I need your assistance! Every poster, please put this out there and call NBC on this date and time. If anyone has connections, pass this info around.
Please help Save Guiding Light. NBC has never said they wanted out of the soap business, so don't disregard this movement because of that false rumor. Days of our Lives is doing great, so don't think they will determine the decision to leave the soap industry.
Thank you all for the support and help Save Guiding Light!!!!!!!!!!
--------------------
"Save Guiding Light" NBC Call-In Event - This Friday, 7/10 at 4pm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have begun the "Save Guiding Light" NBC Call-In Event" to take effect this Friday, 7/10 at 4pm. Guiding Light airs in various affiliates from 10am - 4pm. Immediately after the final broadcast of Fridays episode, fans of Guiding Light will call into NBC's Comment Line to have them pick up Guiding Light.
Please, only post your positive beliefs so we take drastic steps towards this movement. If we get enough fans to call in at that time (and even after), they will consider the calls rather than disregard them.
I called Jeff Zucker's contact that I had posted in the contract thread. Obviously, he won't pick up, and I was directed to the comment line, where I left my message.
One message will not cut it, but hundreds will.
Please call 212-664-4444 for an indirect line which will direct you to the NBC Viewer Contact Line.
Or just call the NBC Viewer Contact Line directly at 212-664-2333.
Soapmom, please put this out there! You did such a great job with your rally! I need your assistance! Every poster, please put this out there and call NBC on this date and time. If anyone has connections, pass this info around.
Please help Save Guiding Light. NBC has never said they wanted out of the soap business, so don't disregard this movement because of that false rumor. Days of our Lives is doing great, so don't think they will determine the decision to leave the soap industry.
Thank you all for the support and help Save Guiding Light!!!!!!!!!!
--------------------
Looking Back
I guess the folks at CBS think that they can help ease the pain of what they have done by adding content to the CBS.com Guiding Light page.
The New York Post published this today.
The New York Post published this today.
Friday, July 3, 2009
New Project for GL Fans
See Original Message Below (Courtesy of SoapCentral.com)
http://boards.soapcentral.com/showthread.php?t=489871
Hello Everyone!!!
It has been a couple of weeks! I needed to regroup a bit but I'm baaaaaaaaack! ;0)
And, I would like to invite everyone to participate in my new special project. We need to put some faces behind the words that we have been saying for months now. I want us, the fans, to bee seen and heard as real people not just numbers...but I really need the fans to come out for this special project so please help me reach everyone who loves Guiding Light and has something to say about it being canceled.
Here is how you can participate and what I am looking for...if you have a webcam or video options in your phone please participate!
1 Submit to me your own personal messages audio, video, (or written but prefer audio or video) to your favorite cast members and tell them what they mean to you, how much you like their acting, talent, story, etc.
and/or
2 In audio or video format I would like you to tell me about your all time favorite storyline(s), who your favorite actor/actress, and couple is and why.
3 What Guiding Light means to you and why you want it to continue
4 Send me any pictures you may have, even from fan events you may have attended, and want me to display or put together with other fan pictures in a video that I will personally create from them.
I am going to put this together and send it out to a variety of places including those actors and actresses mentioned, as well as put it on the savethelightrally.com website.
With everyone uncertain about the future of Guiding Light, the possibility of it being set up for failure, and people losing hope it is time for us to really show our Guiding Light love in person while we still can. This is your opportunity to say how you feel and anything else you need to say. I would like all videos to be 5 minutes or under.
I want this project to be the biggest one I have had to date, so please help me if you can and spread the word!
Send all videos to me at karen@savethelightrally.com or by submitting them directly to the site.
Save the Light...Keep the Light Shining!!!
http://boards.soapcentral.com/showthread.php?t=489871
Hello Everyone!!!
It has been a couple of weeks! I needed to regroup a bit but I'm baaaaaaaaack! ;0)
And, I would like to invite everyone to participate in my new special project. We need to put some faces behind the words that we have been saying for months now. I want us, the fans, to bee seen and heard as real people not just numbers...but I really need the fans to come out for this special project so please help me reach everyone who loves Guiding Light and has something to say about it being canceled.
Here is how you can participate and what I am looking for...if you have a webcam or video options in your phone please participate!
1 Submit to me your own personal messages audio, video, (or written but prefer audio or video) to your favorite cast members and tell them what they mean to you, how much you like their acting, talent, story, etc.
and/or
2 In audio or video format I would like you to tell me about your all time favorite storyline(s), who your favorite actor/actress, and couple is and why.
3 What Guiding Light means to you and why you want it to continue
4 Send me any pictures you may have, even from fan events you may have attended, and want me to display or put together with other fan pictures in a video that I will personally create from them.
I am going to put this together and send it out to a variety of places including those actors and actresses mentioned, as well as put it on the savethelightrally.com website.
With everyone uncertain about the future of Guiding Light, the possibility of it being set up for failure, and people losing hope it is time for us to really show our Guiding Light love in person while we still can. This is your opportunity to say how you feel and anything else you need to say. I would like all videos to be 5 minutes or under.
I want this project to be the biggest one I have had to date, so please help me if you can and spread the word!
Send all videos to me at karen@savethelightrally.com or by submitting them directly to the site.
Save the Light...Keep the Light Shining!!!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Greetings
Dear Friends,
I know it continues to be a very difficult time for Guiding Light fans, especially with the rumors and speculation that is out there.
I now that the departure of Crystal Chappell may have shocked a few of you, but the good news is that she will remain with GL until the end of its CBS run on September 18. I know others are upset to hear that Gina Tognoni will not be around as GL wraps in early August. Gina's contract was set to expire this week, and speculation is that she could not reach an agreement with GL. It is also believed that she may have indeed signed with another NY based soap. While many fans feel she "owed them" to remain, and that the show needed to meet any demands that may have been made for the remaining six weeks of filming, I think it is important for fans to realize contracts aren't that simple due to agreements between the shows and NAFTRA (the actors union to which most daytime actors belong). Non-contract players must be paid a minimum of $400 per episode according to one source. Keeping that in mind, the way GL now tapes, an actor could work several days taping for ONE episode. That being said, these people need to begin to look at what the future holds for them. They have been in a holding pattern since April 1st, and many of them have been searching for a place to land, and you can't blame anyone for taking a secure deal, when GL cannot offer that at this point.
Even if GL were picked up, sources are saying that it would take at least six months to begin production. That is a long to sit idle as an actor.
Some of you may have also read the very disheartening article insinuating that Proctor & Gamble wanted to get rid of GL, and sabotaged it on purpose. Please remember, that is the writers OPINION, and there are no facts to back it up. This is all on the heals of the revealing of Phillip Spaulding's illness, and many fans are already bitching about it because they beleive they will kill Phillip off before the series finale, yet none of us know for sure what the scribes will actually do at this point. It could in fact be great story if people are willing to watch it play out before going off the deep end.
What I am about to say my offend some of you, but so be it. A large part of GL's problems do not stem from the production changes and shakey camera work. They aren't all Ellen Wheeler's fault. It isn't the Otalia storyline. No a large part of the woes GL has had stem from the fickle fans who want what they want and to hell with everyone else. These so-called fans have done nothing but bash, belittle and condemn everything and anything about the show for years now. They are eager to leak information from "insiders" even if the information is flat out misinformation. They seek to stir the pot and create drama behind the drama and all of it is detrimental to the show. I laugh when I read board posters shouting that PGP needs to listen to the fans as if they have all of the answers and know what they are talking about.
It has been my contention for a long while now that the amount of spoilers that find their way out has played a role in the decline in viewership for all daytime serials. The suspense is gone. Throw in the archaic Nielsen system and the entire industry is in trouble.
I don't know how other fans treat other soaps because I have yet to venture to see what they are saying, but if they are like a large number of the GL fans...it won't be long before the next shoe falls. Negativity does no one any good, and that's what you see out on the net, way too often.
I know it continues to be a very difficult time for Guiding Light fans, especially with the rumors and speculation that is out there.
I now that the departure of Crystal Chappell may have shocked a few of you, but the good news is that she will remain with GL until the end of its CBS run on September 18. I know others are upset to hear that Gina Tognoni will not be around as GL wraps in early August. Gina's contract was set to expire this week, and speculation is that she could not reach an agreement with GL. It is also believed that she may have indeed signed with another NY based soap. While many fans feel she "owed them" to remain, and that the show needed to meet any demands that may have been made for the remaining six weeks of filming, I think it is important for fans to realize contracts aren't that simple due to agreements between the shows and NAFTRA (the actors union to which most daytime actors belong). Non-contract players must be paid a minimum of $400 per episode according to one source. Keeping that in mind, the way GL now tapes, an actor could work several days taping for ONE episode. That being said, these people need to begin to look at what the future holds for them. They have been in a holding pattern since April 1st, and many of them have been searching for a place to land, and you can't blame anyone for taking a secure deal, when GL cannot offer that at this point.
Even if GL were picked up, sources are saying that it would take at least six months to begin production. That is a long to sit idle as an actor.
Some of you may have also read the very disheartening article insinuating that Proctor & Gamble wanted to get rid of GL, and sabotaged it on purpose. Please remember, that is the writers OPINION, and there are no facts to back it up. This is all on the heals of the revealing of Phillip Spaulding's illness, and many fans are already bitching about it because they beleive they will kill Phillip off before the series finale, yet none of us know for sure what the scribes will actually do at this point. It could in fact be great story if people are willing to watch it play out before going off the deep end.
What I am about to say my offend some of you, but so be it. A large part of GL's problems do not stem from the production changes and shakey camera work. They aren't all Ellen Wheeler's fault. It isn't the Otalia storyline. No a large part of the woes GL has had stem from the fickle fans who want what they want and to hell with everyone else. These so-called fans have done nothing but bash, belittle and condemn everything and anything about the show for years now. They are eager to leak information from "insiders" even if the information is flat out misinformation. They seek to stir the pot and create drama behind the drama and all of it is detrimental to the show. I laugh when I read board posters shouting that PGP needs to listen to the fans as if they have all of the answers and know what they are talking about.
It has been my contention for a long while now that the amount of spoilers that find their way out has played a role in the decline in viewership for all daytime serials. The suspense is gone. Throw in the archaic Nielsen system and the entire industry is in trouble.
I don't know how other fans treat other soaps because I have yet to venture to see what they are saying, but if they are like a large number of the GL fans...it won't be long before the next shoe falls. Negativity does no one any good, and that's what you see out on the net, way too often.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sign the Pledge
Sign the Guiding Light- As the World Turns Pledge: Join forces with us, the fans of Guiding Light and As the World Turns to help save these historic shows. Perhaps if we can show those in charge that we have a large audience that is willing to follow the shows to any network, we can entice another network to pick up these shows. Vote now! The larger the number, the more attractive our audience becomes to advertisers and networks!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/the-guiding-light-as-the-world-turns-pledge
Elizabeth
Admin Guiding Light Central
Tracey
Administrator Keep the Light Shining and the World Turning
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/the-guiding-light-as-the-world-turns-pledge
Elizabeth
Admin Guiding Light Central
Tracey
Administrator Keep the Light Shining and the World Turning
Thursday, May 21, 2009
TV LAND
I am hearing that Lifetime may have in fact passed on GL, and that it maybe time to begin hitting TV Land with those phone calls, postcards and emails. I know we go from hearing nothing to hearing all kinds of rumors and speculation about the future of the show and what network(s) are and are not interested, but we need to continue to show our support for PGP and Guiding Light. We need to let them know were are a very loyal group of viewers who will follow the show and when the times comes, its sister show As the World Turns.
TV Land Contact Info:
TV Land Viewer Services
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Viewer Services Hotline:
212-846-2550
Email at this webpage:
http://www.tvland.com/switchboard/switchform.jhtml
TV Land Contact Info:
TV Land Viewer Services
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Viewer Services Hotline:
212-846-2550
Email at this webpage:
http://www.tvland.com/switchboard/switchform.jhtml
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
