NBCU, SciFi, Mark Stern fiasco kills BSG web episodes.

( BSG's Director vows not to make any more for NBCU Sci Fi channel )




( The next show you'll be seeing less of, due to NBC Sci Fi ? )


Think Battlestar Galactica is secure and sound from cancellation by Mark Stern & NBC Scifi Channel? BSG fans are beginning to unite with fans of STARGATE, in realizing that the Sci fi channel and Mark Stern are indeed raking everyone over the coals and action needs to be done about it before it's too late.

In fact, all the millions of fans of All the great science fiction shows, Farscape, Stargate, BSG, Star Trek Voyager, and even corporate business people, stockholders, advertisers, and media industry people are uniting together against Mark Stern and NBCU Sci Fi channel.

Actions by NBC Universal Sci Fi channel Mark Stern have now resulted in all Battlestar Galactica web episodes being seized. And BSG's director halting delivery of any more online episodes for fans.

"Ron Moore may not make any more Battlestar Galactica web episodes"

Posted Oct 18th 2006 7:05AM by Richard Keller
[Television, NBC Universal, Battlestar Galactica, Mark Stern, Sci Fi channel, Stargate SG-1]

Waiting for new Battlestar Galactica webisodes on SciFi.com?

Well, you may be waiting for a long time because executive producer Ron Moore said he won't be delivering any more of them, including the ten episodes that have already been completed.

Why?

Because SciFi's parent company, NBC Universal, is being a bit tight with the purse strings.

NBC Universal executives are witholding residuals and credit from the writers of the BSG webisodes, claiming that the three-minute episodes are 'promotional materials'.

When Moore heard this he halted delivery [of all Battlestar Galactica BSG webisodes].

In turn, NBC Universal seized the webisodes and filed charges of unfair labor practices with the Writers Guild of America. The WGA then went back to Moore and told him not to deliver any more Internet content until their was a residual deal. [for Moore, against NBC Universal]

Last month, nearly six million people streamed BSG episodes within two days of the premiere. Compare that to the 2.2 million people who watched the third-season premiere of the show. This goes to show that the Internet is beginning to draw more and more television viewers into its gaping maw, and that the industry is going to need to work together with the WGA to determine the best course of action.

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IMPORTANT NOTE:

All the while NBC is whining and complaining about paying for things, pretending to be a poor mouth, NBC Universal just paid over a HALF A BILLION DOLLARS to purchase 1 web site. It's Called i village. Which you may or may not have heard of. It is a womans issues website that posts things such as on how women are supposed to hold their boyfriend's _ while giving ora___. You get the idea. We kid you not, this is infact an actual topic that women are told by NBC's site that they are supposed to follow there. They spent 600 million dollars on a website. One that probably is worth only 6K. But that's where half a billion dollars went to, instead of your shows.

In the meantime, NBC snubs paying people for actual work that they did, and for shows (which they should pay for because NBC bilks a ton of advertising revenue off of all the shows you like (before cancelling them on you), and a whole team of people did the work for them.) Everyone in the industry, and also viewers are beginning to avoid Sci Fi channel, and anything to do with NBC Universal.

The network is in last place, their ratings are now struggling, and they are sinking all the good shows left & right with bad management decisions. Stockholders and wallstreet is taking notice and NBC has started to lose advertisers and profits and is now dragging down parent company GE corporation, which was otherwise profitable. The CEO of NBC was also recently fired in February of this year. Indicative of bad management at the top, but probably also all the way down and at all levels. People are taking notice and rising up to take action, faxing, writing and emailing the channels, the networks, and jeff.immelt@corporate.ge.com the CEO of GE, owner of all of it, and expressing their opinions on all of this.)

Details and more info on this are on www.THESUPERGATE.com
GO there to that website and see the behind-the-scenes information on Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1.