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 Message 2076 
 David E. Powell to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated 
 Re: Show Babylon 5 on TV 
 11 Oct 13 19:46:22 
 
On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:37:46 PM UTC-4, Andrew Swallow wrote:
> On September 2, 2013 JMS wrote on his Facebook channel
> 
> [quote]
> 
> To the online backinh and forthing...some hard facts. Because Babylon 5 
> 
> isn't on the air in the US anywhere, it's impossible for the show to add 
> 
> new viewers except one at a time, friend to friend, or if you've heard 
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> about it enough to want to shell out the money for the DVDs. Casual 
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> viewers can't stumble across it while channel surfing. (As we all know, 
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> after Trek was canceled for poor ratings, it found its audience in 
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> syndication.) So in answer to the photo below, either WB has to be 
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> convinced to release the show somewhere, or a network like Syfy or 
> 
> Chiller or another along those lines has to be prompted to pick it up. 
> 
> If not, quite honestly, and without any way to add new viewers, the show 
> 
> will eventually slide into obscurity. This ain't something I can do, or 
> 
> even directly participate in. It's up to the fans now.
> 
> [/quote]
> 
> 
> 
> On Twitter people are using #FreeBabylon5
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew Swallow

Will do. It would seem a natural for SyFy or and would be competitor.
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