ATTN:JMS LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES

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Subject: ATTN:JMS LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES
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s  1: Sep  8, 1996: Tracy Wilborn <twilborn at zianet.com>
*  2: Sep  8, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

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From: Tracy Wilborn <twilborn at zianet.com>
Lines: 43

It just happened again tonight!  Something that really torques my shorts out 
of place so I thought I'd see if you know anything about the legal 
resonsibliities, that a station playing B5, has in respect to playing the 
credits at the end of the show.

I know this might sound a little anal to some, but the station that I get B5 
through (KFOX El Paso, TX) cuts the credits off before they're done.  I 
wouldn't complain if it was a once-in-a-while thing but this station 
habitually does this.  Tonight they did one of their *extra-specials*, they 
played the very first credit (I believe that it is either yours, Joe or Doug 
Netter's, I'm not sure right now) and then cut to commercial.  No promo for 
next week, No list of characters and the people that played them, None of the 
technical people.  I like to know who these people are and it just doesn't 
feel like a complete show without the credits and Christopher Franke's 
soundtrack!  Hell, they've gone so far as to start the show a already a few 
seconds into it.  It's not like it's been preempted by a football game that 
ran long, they just started the program already into it.  I have one episode 
that I actually had to freeze-frame a set of credits that had not come all 
the way up (they were very dim) just to have a list of people that were on 
the show that week.

They gotta be breaking some kind of law otherwise what's the point of putting 
credits on the end of any program.  Just thought you should know and I hope 
you have some suggestions about what can be done about it.

Tracy

PS.  Congratulation on the Hugo!  I wish I could've been there.

-- 
"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and
superstition, and it lies between the pit of mens' fears and the summit of
his knoledge.
This is the dimension of imagination.
It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone."

                                               -- Rod Serling





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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Lines: 8

Stations are required to show credits; often they don't.  We complain, we
get ignored.  It's vastly annoying.


 jms



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