Bad News For Fandom Land
Aug. 6th, 2006 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogI'm connected well enough to the TVOntario fandom to hear what goes down. Here's some depressing news from the group trying to get Today's Special on DVD:
"Thank you for writing to TVOntario.
Unfortunately for most programs that we aired in the 70s, 80s & 90s, our
broadcast rights have expired. As such, these programs have been erased
from our files. To find a copy of these programs, you might want to try
searching the Internet or visiting amazon.ca.
Regards,
Member & Audience Relations
TVOntario
It's All About Learning!"
TVONTARIO FREAKING WIPED THE MASTERS OF ALMOST EVERYTHING?! This is a massive kick to the nuts. I know it shouldn't be bugging me as much as it is, but that sucks. I think the fox mood icon sums it up.
And yes, odds are that PoG was on the hit list as they lost rights to it soon after the series ended. They were given/sold to a multimedia company.
"Thank you for writing to TVOntario.
Unfortunately for most programs that we aired in the 70s, 80s & 90s, our
broadcast rights have expired. As such, these programs have been erased
from our files. To find a copy of these programs, you might want to try
searching the Internet or visiting amazon.ca.
Regards,
Member & Audience Relations
TVOntario
It's All About Learning!"
TVONTARIO FREAKING WIPED THE MASTERS OF ALMOST EVERYTHING?! This is a massive kick to the nuts. I know it shouldn't be bugging me as much as it is, but that sucks. I think the fox mood icon sums it up.
And yes, odds are that PoG was on the hit list as they lost rights to it soon after the series ended. They were given/sold to a multimedia company.
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Date: 2006-08-08 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-08 06:27 pm (UTC)I'm rather confused by this myself. They had an archive at one point, as at least one missing episode of Doctor Who was recovered through them. You'd think that they would have learned from that. XP
There's still a very big chance that there's secondary copies of some TVOntario masters. The fandom this message came from, Today's Special (a pretty silly kid's TV show from the 1980s that didn't date as badly as some of the others), was getting shown on other stations up until about 4 years ago. Right now I think they're chasing those.