The Event for The Event, Part 2

It's time for our second The Event for The Event!!! :) This time, we want to expand our circle, still contacting NBCUniversal but to also include Netflix, Syfy & Hulu in the U.S., and ask international fans to contact their networks. This might seem like a lot of work, but believe me, our efforts were noticed last time. Please participate!! :) We must continue to apply the pressure to bring back The Event!

We ask for you to send letters like we did last time. Here are the addresses:

Marc Graboff
President, NBCUniversal West Coast Operations
RE: The Event
3000 W. Alameda
Burbank, CA 91523

Mr. Graboff can be emailed directly at marc.graboff@nbcuni.com and on Twitter at @mgraboff.

Ted Sarandos
Chief Content Officer
Netflix
100 Winchester Circle
Los Gatos, CA 95032

Mr. Sarandos can be emailed directly at tsarandos@netflix.com.

Mark Stern
Executive Vice President, Original Programming, Syfy

30 Rockefeller Plaza, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10112

Mr. Stern can be emailed directly at mark.stern@nbcuni.com.

Andy Forssell
Senior Vice President of Content Acquisition and Distribution
Hulu, LLC
12312 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064

I haven't found an email for Mr. Forssell yet. However, there is a special Content Requests forum section on Hulu's site you can post to.

In addition, we will be tweeting nonstop to @NBC, @Syfy, @Netflix, @Hulu, and anyone else you think should hear this. Let them know how much we want the event back! Make sure you included #theevent in the tweets.

When tweeting, include #TheEvent and (if you have room) #ContinueTheEvent. Let's get The Event treading! If you don't have a Twitter account, get one!

For those of you who have a Google+ account, also post there. Make your posts public, so they can be found by anyone on the network. If you don't have a Google+ account but want one, please leave a comment here and one of us can add you.

For those of you on Facebook, go to the Facebook pages of NBC (and NBCTheEvent), Netflix, Syfy and Hulu, and let them know you want to see The Event continue!

Another important task... find internet celebs that like The Event and have them help with the cause!

When I'm on Twitter, I search for people tweeting about The Event, and I let them know about our site, so they can join this fight. Now, I'll do this for anyone I come across, regardless of how many followers they have, but let's face it... someone who joins the fight that has many followers can do more to bring others to the fight than someone who has few of them. I'll have more effect if I can get the attention of someone who has 5,000 followers than someone else who has 5.

Occasionally, I'll come across people that have a lot of followers. This is a good thing, because if they retweet, their followers will see what I've tweeted and some of them who also enjoy The Event will join the cause.

Today, I found an internet celebrity that watches The Event, but I haven't been successful getting her attention. However, with your help, we can do it together.

Justine Ezarik, better known as @ijustine, is a fan of The Event. She has almost 1.3 million followers on Twitter. THAT'S HUGE!!! Consider this: If 0.5% of her fans sent in an email to Marc Graboff at NBCUniversal, that's 6,500 emails!

Here's a request... help me get the attention of @ijustine. Send her a tweet about this site and get her to tweet about it. If you do, we'll have a lot more people join this cause!

If you know of any other people that have more than 1,000 Twitter followers and watch The Event, please tweet to them, and let them know about this site, tweeting and emailing NBCUniversal exec Marc Graboff, the person that can do the most to bring back The Event, and do some of the other things we've mentioned on this site.

Announcing "The Event for The Event"

Fans!!! Join the celebration on Monday, June 27th, where fans of The Event will take part in the first ever "The Event for The Event".

Quite simply, this will be a day where fans everywhere will unite, celebrate the show, and do EVERYTHING in our collective powers to bring back the show!

We'll have more details to come as the day arrives. Until then, celebrate The Event! Tell your friends to catch up on the show and get more people hooked on The Event!

Get NBC to play re-runs in the summer

As most of you know, the producers have been shopping around The Event. The reports on Deadline.com and IMDB have given The Event the biggest publicity of all of the cancelled TV shows. People are hearing about it, which is good. Two and a Half Men got their all-time ratings high on re-runs during Charlie Sheen's 'time', which is a perfect example of what publicity can do.

Let's face it. Write-in/twitter campaigns are all too common and are not eye catching by TV podcasts, blogs, and news sites (which can generate a lot of publicity). Write-in campaigns aren't going to get any new viewers either. In order to get more viewers, NBC (or any other network) needs to air re-runs of the show. Yes, you can watch some of them online, and the best way to do this is to approach sci-fi/TV podcasts, blogs, and fansites to promote it. Many will at least like the show and by doing this, it shoots it's publicity through the roof. This is also a nice way for NBC Universal to make more money from the show, which doesn't hurt our cause. If The Event is profitable, it has more chance of getting back on the air in new episodes, mini-series or a TV movie.

So go on to iTunes, twitter, Facebook, or whatever, and tell people that you want them to talk/post about our current campaign. If everybody that read this post does this and tells a few more people, it will be up in no time. (Also, tell your friends about us, the more the merrier.)

Please leave in the comments, a few sci-fi/TV plugins to contact so everyone can check them out.

Get The Event Trending

Great Job Everyone! There have been MANY tweets to Netflix asking them to pick up The Event a season 2. Keep the tweets going to all of the possible networks that could pick it up. There has not yet been any news besides that Steve Stark (producer) has been talking to different networks.

This coming Monday (May 30, 2011) the UK and many other places will be having their season finale and they will be tweeting. Starting at 6e/5c/4m/3p (United States time zones) people will be tweeting about the finale. If we have our own tweetcast (retweeting a bunch of tweets that has the hashtag #TheEvent) we might be able to get it trending. Make absolute sure that you use he hashtag #TheEvent yourself. If everyone that reads this, tweets 5 tweets with #TheEvent we can get 140 extra tweets about The Event. If we can get this trending, I think that there is a good chance that someone will take a very good look at The Event.

The Event Fanbase Project Part 11- The Wave

This, in my hopes, will be a big factor for The Event and its fans. On every Monday at 8:00 P.M in YOUR time zone, you get on Twitter and write "@NBC #TheEvent", or on Facebook (on NBC's wall) The Event. For every one of these tweets/ posts, NBC sees that they have a big and loyal fanbase. This, I think, will be the main project until NBC's decision (hopefully to renew) about The Event's future. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do the other things I have in my other posts. Please, copy and paste this link and send this to other The Event fans. You can even post this right now (and I will happily retweet it), but make ABSOLUTE sure that you post this on Monday at 8:00 P.M in YOUR TIME ZONE (not when The Event stars airing.) We need to unite in one massive movement to save The Event.

If you are a big fan of The Event and want to make your own fanpage and twitter to help save the show, PLEASE don't hesitate to contact me at theeventfancentral@gmail.com.

The Event Fanbase Project Part 10- Advertisers

Almost all of the money that NBC gets from airing The Event is from advertisers. Advertisers will pay in an "auction" style of buying slots, and will pay more for certain slots. Their main goal is to advertise to THEIR potential consumers. They will advertise on shows with 1. the same ideas, and 2. big ratings. Of course advertisers would pay more for shows with big ratings, but what about the other reason? Advertisers can't ask each customer why they are here or where they saw their advertisement. We will now let them know. Take a good 10 minutes and see who advertises during The Event (actually Apple is the main promotion on the show -Sean using a MacBook, Sophia with an iPhone.) Let them know that you 1. watch The Event, 2. notice their commercials, and that 3. you buy from them because you see their commercials there.
To contact them, just go to their website, and click on "Contact Us". You can then leave a nice message to them. Also, most of them are on Twitter, hit them up there ALSO.

The Event Fanbase Project Part 9- "Like" The Event

Believe it or not, NBC looks at how many people "Like" each of their shows (or follow them on Twitter), to help make a renewal/cancellation decision. Here are a few stats so far.

Facebook

1. The Office-                                   7,802,451
2. L&A SVU-                                  2,800,641
3. 30 Rock-                                      1,598,951
4. Chuck-                                         1,584,750
5. SNL-                                           1,320,532
6. The Biggest Loser-                       1,158,491
7. Community-                                   719,620
8. America's Got Talent-                    550,768
9. Friday Night Lights-                       531,751
10. Parenthood-                                   519,402
11. The Apprentice-                             411,613
12. Parks & Recreation-                      362,014
13. Days of Our Lives-                        350,326
14. America's Next Great Restaurant-  335,093
15. Minute to Win It-                           295,218
16. Jay Leno-                                      289,340
17. The Event-                                   284,076
18. Outsourced-                                  259,089
19. Jimmy Fallon-                                245,011
20. Who Do you Think You Are?-       117,132
21. Harry's Law-                                  114,888
22. The Cape-                                      98,681
23. The Voice-                                     78,345
24. Chase-                                           72,565
25. L&A L.A.-                                     58,441
26. Last Comic Standing-                     49,178
27. The Marriage Ref-                          25,231
28. Perfect Couples-                             24,269
29. School Pride-                                   9,112
30. Love Bites-                                      4,502
31. Fact Checkers Unit-                         3,623
32. Friends With Benefits-                      3,282
33. Dial Star-                                         1,484
34. In Gayle We Trust-                          1,452

Twitter

1. The Office-                                  147,662
2. Jimmy Fallon-                                59,574
3. SNL-                                            52,679
4. The Biggest Loser-                        37,627
5. The Apprentice-                            36,549
6. Chuck-                                          33,898
7. 30 Rock                                        33,112
8. L&A SVU-                                   27,938
9. Community-                                   25,053
10. Days of  Our Lives-                       23,501
11. Parks & Recreation-                      21,745
12. America's Got Talent-                    12,207
13. Jay Leno-                                      11,749
14. Parenthood-                                   10,459
15. Friday Night Lights-                         9,020
16. The Voice-                                      7,648
    
17. The Event-                                     5,545
18. Minute To Win It-                           3,297
19. Outsourced-                                    3,134
20. Perfect Couples-                             2,284
21. The Cape-                                       2,057
22. Harry's Law-                                   1,689
23.  The Marriage Ref-                          1,630
24. Who Do You Think You Are?-        1,564
25. Chase-                                             1,184
26. School Pride-                                     987
27. America's Next Great Restaurant-       941
28. Last Comic Standing-                         889
29. Fact Checkers Unit-                           818
30. Love Bites-                                        629
31. Friends With Benefits-                        405

Please "Like" and Follow The Event by just clicking on the word "TheEvent"

The Event Fanbase Project Part 5- Twitter Takeover

First off, nbc IS on twitter and so are most of us. The reason most companies have twitter is to get feedback from the rest of the world (and most likely nbc too). So we are going to send tweets to NBC and get many people to retweet them. If you go to @EventFanCentral and look at my "Favorites", retweet the messages that have "Dear @nbc" at the beginning. So far, the most retweets that one of my tweets has is 13. My goal is that before NBC makes a decision on renewing/ cancelling The Event, we will have a tweet with 50 retweets. If you want to make your own tweets to NBC, just start it off with "Dear @nbc" or something like that- put a word in front of the @nbc, so the rest of the world can see it. If you do make your own tweet to them, just leave a comment, and I will happily retweet it. Thanks.

I am now writing this 12 hours later, and I currently have 27 retweets- pretty good for 12 hours. :)We need to keep this going. For those of you who are reading this, please retweet the message I have described above, if you are having trouble with it/ finding it etc. just leave a comment and I will help you.