New Radio shack commercial

[oldwardaggit]

Anyone see the New Radio shack commercial where they are showing original Galactica on a portable DVD player?


Add this to all the other Shack Commercials that have Galactica in it and I would say that we have a real fan working there somewhere.

So here is to Radio shack, I tip my glass to you :beer:

We should have a huge mail in to Radio shack to show our support. :)

OWD

[peter noble]

We should have a huge mail in to Radio shack to show our support. :)

OWD

That's a pretty good idea OWD.

Radio Shack's email addy anyone?

Peter

[jewels]

Customer Care email contact form page on their website:
http://www.radioshack.com/Contacts/CustomerRelations.asp?OID=1

Mail or phone contacts:
*
Address: 200 Taylor Street, Suite 600
Ft. Worth, TX 76102
Attn: Customer Care
Phone: 817-415-3200
817-415-3240 (FAX)

[kingfish]

Kudos OWD. I remember the Howie Long commercial for Radio Shack with BG playing in the background. At one time when they were selling Sharp TV's Galactica was also featured. The ad ran, "Big Sharp's or little Sharp's," as Vipers blasted away at Raiders

We ain't finished yet.

[shiningstar]

Anyone see the New Radio shack commercial where they are showing original Galactica on a portable DVD player?


Add this to all the other Shack Commercials that have Galactica in it and I would say that we have a real fan working there somewhere.

So here is to Radio shack, I tip my glass to you :beer:

We should have a huge mail in to Radio shack to show our support. :)

OWD

DITTO!!!!

[oldwardaggit]

So should we email them or do it the old fasion way or should we do both? I think they might be tickled pink to know that we took notice and it might make them do more with original Galactica for commercials. :)

OWD

[amberstar]

So should we email them or do it the old fasion way or should we do both? I think they might be tickled pink to know that we took notice and it might make them do more with original Galactica for commercials. :)

OWD

Why not both ways, then we can really get their attention :D

[jewels]

emailed already. (hey, was on the page so Why not?) :laugh:
:salute:

[shiningstar]

Why not both ways, then we can really get their attention :D

I soooooooooooo agree! :D :thumbsup:

[CommanderTaggart]

Of course, it COULD be somebody at Radio Shack's Ad Agency slipping the Big G in. Anybody wanna research who that is?

[peter noble]

Emailed!

Peter ;)

[bsg1fan1975]

glad to see the old show wasn't buried and forgotten!

[peter noble]

I got this reply to my email:

Hello Peter:

Thanks for the email. We appreciate customer feedback at all times.

Your email will be forwarded to our advertising department so they are
aware of your comments. We appreciate the fact that you took the time to
email us and express your feelings on this.

Thanks,
RadioShack Customer Care
Mike Money

[shiningstar]

I got this reply to my email:

Hello Peter:

Thanks for the email. We appreciate customer feedback at all times.

Your email will be forwarded to our advertising department so they are
aware of your comments. We appreciate the fact that you took the time to
email us and express your feelings on this.

Thanks,
RadioShack Customer Care
Mike Money

THat's so great :thumbsup:

[bsg1fan1975]

that is awesome!

[shiningstar]

it sure is

[oldwardaggit]

Cool, It's just like a few years back when we use to do things like this. :)

OWD

[bsg1fan1975]

yup!

[kingfish]

Worth mentioning:

Repost from scifiwire.com:

Fans of the original Battlestar Galactica TV series announced that they have raised $10,000 to buy national advertisements urging series creator Glen A. Larson and X-Men producer Tom DeSanto to develop a theatrical feature film that picks up the story where the 1970s TV series left off. The fan campaign, organized by The Colonial Fan Force, is a reaction to the SCI FI Channel's upcoming original series Battlestar Galactica, which picks up the story from the Galactica miniseries that aired last December, reimagining the show with a new cast and new premise.

The campaign plans to buy ads in the September issue of Cinescape magazine and the Sept. 17 edition of Daily Variety. The campaign also urges fans to write letters.

SCI FI's Battlestar Galactica, starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, is currently in production in Vancouver, B.C., and is expected to premiere in January 2005.

[peter noble]

Cool, It's just like a few years back when we use to do things like this. :)

OWD

It's about time we started doing them again don't ya think! ;)

Seriously it's all about visibility, while people are doing things like this, they should be congratulated and encouraged. Things like this means the show's out there and still alive.

Maybe, just maybe the giant is starting to awaken! ;)

Peter

[jewels]

Peter, I got the same reply--on a Sunday no less! I asked if they could pass back who was the ad agency of record for their TV ads so we could try to thank them too. No reply on that yet.

[oldwardaggit]

Yup, I use to be not so bad at gearing things up and joining in on the campaigns in the past but then I started recording the second CD for my band and producing another for some one else and plus the Audio continuation. My time went way down to nothing but I'm soon going to clean my plate again so that I can join in again and do more .

My only fear is that someone will use us yet again to show that there is still people interested in Galactica and they will make another show that has mostly nothing to do with it.

We are the reason Galactica was popular enough to do again but we are not the target audience. Oh well, It's water under the bridge now and I respect those that are fans of the new Moore production, I just don't like having us being used.

OWD

[peter noble]

My only fear is that someone will use us yet again to show that there is still people interested in Galactica and they will make another show that has mostly nothing to do with it.

We are the reason Galactica was popular enough to do again but we are not the target audience. Oh well, It's water under the bridge now and I respect those that are fans of the new Moore production, I just don't like having us being used.

OWD

OWD, it's Hollywood, but there are decent people out there who still believe in the orginal show and who are fans just like us.

Those who falsify or misuse data will always get caught out eventually when the results don't match up to the data provided.

Onwards and upwards, we're still fighting and I'm thinking POSTATHON! ;)

Peter

[kingfish]

OWD, it's Hollywood, but there are decent people out there who still believe in the orginal show and who are fans just like us.

Those who falsify or misuse data will always get caught out eventually when the results don't match up to the data provided.

Onwards and upwards, we're still fighting and I'm thinking POSTATHON! ;)

Peter


Too bad Larson doesn't have a BG Forum. Postathon sounds excellent. I believe they had a Larson BG forum some years back but it was shut down.

[oldwardaggit]

Well we could have it on the Original Battlestar Galactica board that I started over on the sci fi channels forum . I'm not crazy about that place but it might make a statment if we can get more posts on there then the one that has that bezare mod thing hapening.

It's an Idea anyway. :)

OWD

[peter noble]

Well we could have it on the Original Battlestar Galactica board that I started over on the sci fi channels forum . I'm not crazy about that place but it might make a statment if we can get more posts on there then the one that has that bezare mod thing hapening.

It's an Idea anyway. :)

OWD

And a good one! :)

Peter

[ojai22]

Okay, this is more like it. Now all I ask is that we keep our eye on the goal and not be side-tracked by anything. OWD, that board is as good as any, and that was why you created it, remember? Then we can branch out and post on all the other boards at the same time, to let them know about it, and leave our message behind that we are re-energized.

Whoopee!

[jewels]

what's the url for that Original Battlestar Galactica board @ Skiffy?

Update on Radio Shack contact info:

The responsibility for BG appearing in the ads may go to a RS, Sr. VP for Advertising who has been pro-active in using pro-space exploration imagery in their ads. Trying to get the VP's name so emails can go to their attention.

Their ad agency is Carat-Freeman Interactive. They have many offices but since my friend that's a model/actor in Dallas gets Radio Shack jobs often, I'm guessing that's the office that handles Radio Shack's business.

Carat-Freeman Interactive
RE: Radio Shack
3333 Lee Parkway
Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75219
Phone: 972.716.0777
Fax: 972.716.0033

their press contact person is molly.parsley@carat.com
She'd probably appropriate to direct it to as she'd be likely to pass the feedback on to whomever it would best go to. And telling her nicely whether you want them to consider sponsoring the new series/warning them that you don't plan on watching--well these are the people that buy the commercial time. You get the idea. ;)

Jewels

[Rowan]

Hi guys I believe this is the man you are looking for...

Jim McDonald
Senior Vice President
and Chief Brand Officer


Click To Download A High Resolution Photo (http://www.radioshackcorporation.com/media/archives/mcdonald.zip)

A 28-year veteran of the world of advertising and marketing, Jim McDonald joined RadioShack in January 1998 and was named Chief Brand Officer in 2003.

Prior to joining RadioShack, McDonald served for four years as the Senior Vice President and RadioShack's Account Director for Young & Rubicam's The Lord Group. While he worked for this New York-based advertising agency, RadioShack's initial brand repositioning advertising and the tagline –- "You've Got Questions. We've Got Answers." – were introduced. Some of the other brands McDonald has worked on over his career include Pizza Hut, Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Chevron, The Westin Hotels, Gulf, IBM, Stouffer's, Wurlitzer, Homart Malls, Compaq, RCA, Sprint, MSN and the Texas Commerce banking network.

Before his work on RadioShack, McDonald was based with Young & Rubicam in San Francisco and headed up the advertising for Chevron and its more than 13,000 retail gasoline, food mart and car care outlets.

McDonald initiated a celebrity advertising campaign for RadioShack to contemporize the brand. RadioShack's family of spokespersons includes Howie Long, Vanessa Williams Shaquille O'Neal and others. The addition of new celebrities has been instrumental in keeping the highly successful campaign fresh and unexpected.

McDonald considers one of his biggest accomplishments the RadioShack Father's Day commercial filmed in 2001 on the International Space Station; and working with the Russian Space Agency that made this first commercial done on the ISS possible.

In 1975 McDonald earned a bachelor of journalism with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, followed by a master of arts in advertising in 1980. In 2003, Jim McDonald was named the Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Texas School of Communications.

October 2003

http://www.radioshackcorporation.com/contacts/index.html

[jewels]

Rowan! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

And the celebrity ad campaign it talks about above the paragraph you highlighted is the campaign where we've seen all the BG references. I'll check but meantime any emails to Radio Shack, request them to redirect them to Attn: Jim McDonald, Senior Vice President and Chief Brand Officer.

[Rowan]

Rowan! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!:D :D

And the celebrity ad campaign it talks about above the paragraph you highlighted is the campaign where we've seen all the BG references.Ah Ok! I haven't seen this add yet I keep looking for it but no luck, I was hoping to find it online which is how I came accross Jim yesterday and then I saw your post... I'll check but meantime any emails to Radio Shack, request them to redirect them to Attn: Jim McDonald, Senior Vice President and Chief Brand Officer.
I think since he is proud of his work enough to mention it in his Bio that he would be tickled pink by our letters.

[oldwardaggit]

Hey that's cool. The new commercial I seen and keep seeing has Shaquille O'Neal in it and it's playing on his remote DVD player. :)

[oldwardaggit]

Here is the URL to that board and the great thing is you don't have to wait for your post to go through .

http://bboard.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/4180

I know there will be trolls that try to prevoke us while we do this but If we all ignore them, Then they will just get ticked off, say stuff even worse and eventually go away. I know it's not the easiest thing to do but take my word, It makes them more upset if you ignore them or even thank them for helping us get the numbers up with their post. LMAO

Now we just have to come up with a date. :)

OWD

[ojai22]

I sent a thank you to Molly earlier. The reply said they would forward it to the proper person.

Thanks for posting the URL, Twin. I hurriedly sent out some emails this AM, but know I overlooked some folks.

[kingfish]

Here is the URL to that board and the great thing is you don't have to wait for your post to go through .

http://bboard.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/4180

I know there will be trolls that try to prevoke us while we do this but If we all ignore them, Then they will just get ticked off, say stuff even worse and eventually go away. I know it's not the easiest thing to do but take my word, It makes them more upset if you ignore them or even thank them for helping us get the numbers up with their post. LMAO

Now we just have to come up with a date. :)

OWD


OWD, I am confused as heck. Why have a postathon at skiffy when they ignored us in the first place. I can't see them changing their version to fit our needs. Perhaps another letter writting campaign to Larson/DeSanto would do the trick. Larson is the key to getting the thingy done. Hopefully they (the Larson's) will also put up a Bg forum in the future then POSTATHON, POSTATHON would be of value.

[ojai22]

Kingfish,

A Post-A-Thon will do wonders for the original fans right now. It feels like someone dropped a heavy object on us and we went Splat! We're beginning to get together again, and that can only do us good. Besides, Post-A-Thons are a lot of fun.

We need a central theme for the messages. We don't have a petition to talk about, and we've raised the money for the ads.

As far as the event being held at SciFi, OWD started a board there solely for TOS. Why not build a board right there in their backyard? They have what they want - the mini and the new series. Let's work to get what we want - a MOVIE. And I just answered the question in my second paragraph --- LOL.

[peter noble]

Many of us met on the old Skiffy board and now that's lost to us. Maybe it's time to go back and OWD'S board fits our purposes exactly!

We can post with our posts going through instantaneously, why not try and recreate some of the fun and discussions?

I'm looking forward to it, I hope other people are willing to participate.

Peter

[oldwardaggit]

My main reason for wanting to have it there is this,
If we can get more posts on a board for the original then there is on what is now a board for the mini, it will prove a point to those that happen apon this or any other Galactica site that has us promoting it.

Especially if we do it in one day. I don't expect to get Sci fi's attention but if we do, I expect them to do something they are famious for when it comes to how they have handled this fan base. That's not being bitter, that's just speaking the truth.

But above all, I , just the others, want to do this for old time sake and have a good time.

:):):):)
OWD

[kingfish]

Kingfish,

A Post-A-Thon will do wonders for the original fans right now. It feels like someone dropped a heavy object on us and we went Splat! We're beginning to get together again, and that can only do us good. Besides, Post-A-Thons are a lot of fun.

We need a central theme for the messages. We don't have a petition to talk about, and we've raised the money for the ads.

As far as the event being held at SciFi, OWD started a board there solely for TOS. Why not build a board right there in their backyard? They have what they want - the mini and the new series. Let's work to get what we want - a MOVIE. And I just answered the question in my second paragraph --- LOL.


If one is looking for a central theme then I would say, "And so it begins," since this is hopefully the beginning of achieving the ultimate goal, a Larson continuation BG movie.

[ojai22]

OWD,

I know you're busy so we can take a day that you have free. We want it a bit in advance so we can tell everyone about it. Your reasons, and Peter's, are so good and true. It will be fun to return with as many of the old group as possible. Perhaps we can bring back some of those that got disheartened and dropped out.

I'm looking forward to it. :-)

[Rowan]

Are new people welcome? If yes since we are new can you tell us more about what is involved? What do you say? etc. Thanks :D

[julix]

I would like to be involved as well and have similar questions..........

[Muffit]

These are both GREAT ideas! Thomas and Cmdr Taggart, are ya around? Is there a possibility we could list a brief msg atop the CFF and CF main pages with the Radio Shack addies? They answered me wonderfully too, from a real person not a machine...

When someone gives you candy, you say THANKS so next time you visit they'll be likely to give you another... ;)

P.S. I'm a BIG Radio Shack customer. I would hate to live in a town without one (those are the two things I look for - a good pizza place and Radio Shack). When I was young, I went there almost weekly for electronic doodads for my car stereo, calculators for college and my brother's CB habit (ah, the memories). Later when I got married I frequented them for cables and what nots for my home stereo/TV amateur theater system.

Now I go there for computer stuff and home theatre cabling. There's no better place in my estimation. If I want inexpensive stuff, they've got it. If I want gold plated component video cables, they've got those too. WHere else can you find a digital optical TOSLink cable on short notice? (Hah! :laugh: A plug for our favorite musician OWD!!!).

I say lets thank the gift horse with some sugar... :laugh:

Affectionately,
Muffit
:muffit:

[jewels]

I think since he is proud of his work enough to mention it in his Bio that he would be tickled pink by our letters.

Rowan: Jim McDonald is exactly the contact to address our thanks to at Radio Shack.

Muffit: you are so right, we do need to throw a little cash their way as real thanks, when we are looking for a product they'd carry. I think we have some of those gold cables somewhere--good stuff.

[jewels]

Muffit: you asked if we could put the RS contact info at the top of the page, I did a global announcement with all the addresses & emails in one place. When the boss daggit barks, we hop to it. ;)

:laugh:

[ernie90125]

When I was a kid, my late father would go to radio rallies and take me along. I would be fascinated to see all the radio and electronic equipment....

One time, I couldn't go as I had chickhen pox. I was gutted.... But he came back with a Radio Shack mini frisby, I loved it....

I also loved, and still love Battlestar Galactica. I wish we could get the original BSG back. I also wish we could get my Radio Shack frisby back, after it went over a wall and couldn't be found.....!!!!!!!!

Good on you Radio Shack.....

[ernie90125]

When I was a kid, my late father would go to radio rallies and take me along. I would be fascinated to see all the radio and electronic equipment....

One time, I couldn't go as I had chickhen pox. I was gutted.... But he came back with a Radio Shack mini frisby, I loved it....

I also loved, and still love Battlestar Galactica. I wish we could get the original BSG back. I also wish we could get my Radio Shack frisby back, after it went over a wall and couldn't be found.....!!!!!!!!

Good on you Radio Shack.....

[ernie90125]

I have e-mailed both of the online contacts Jewels has provided. Here is the first reply :


>Thanks Daniel - I forwarded your email to the RadioShack team! They'll be pleased to >read it

>~molly

[ojai22]

"Are new people welcome? If yes since we are new can you tell us more about what is involved? What do you say? etc. Thanks"


"I would like to be involved as well and have similar questions.........."


Everyone is welcome that is a fan of the original series. Most boards are welcoming the new series fans and that's okay. We who are fans of the original, and only the original, wanted our own place to post, and feel free to say what we pleased without offending anyone. OWD started TOS board at SciFi for that reason.

A Post-A-Thon usually lasts 24 hours. We post continually during that time. We had one to get names on a petition once, that one lasted a week. We went all over the net, leaving posts on every board that would allow it. Very often we'd stop back on the home board, which was at SciFi, and post where we had been. We got 6000 names on that petition that week. It was exhausting! But so much fun.

At the end of that week, I looked back over the posts and found one of mine that I liked so I copied and kept it with some letters in a folder. When I come across it now I still laugh about how crazy it was. Here it is:

=================================

Cross-eyed but still here

Date: 11/15/2001
From: ojai22

I posted on the Terminal Hack and Phreak Bboard. Seemed appropriate. However, I passed on the ComingOut of the Closet Board. I thought they'd be too busy to notice on the Unassisted Childbirth BBoard.

At www.yforum.com/ I was offered a book entitled:
"Why do white people smell like dogs when they
come out of the rain?" Passed on that, too.

Replied to a reply at the Movie Cat's Pad at MovieForum.

Replied to a BSG discussion started two days ago by someone else by leaving the petition.

Posted the petition at www.cinephiles.net on their discussion forum.

Became a member of www.forumplanet.com/planetquake/ but couldn't figure out how to post. Nothing to click on. I'm a member of gamespy now, with an icon and everything.

The bruised.net forum board was out but I sent a message to bruised@bruised.net.

I typed Bboard Forum into a search engine and found all this terrific stuff. Somewhere In all that confusion I remember a little button that said "Where am I?" I'm going back to find it now. It is imperative that I find it now.



Lost in Cyberspace
=====================================


Sometimes when I'm getting the message out about a mail-in campaign or something, I come across old posts that were left in odd places, just in case.

OWD, Peter, dvo, RG, I hope this brings back some good memories. Let's do it again.





:warrior:

[Rowan]

Ojai22,
Thank you for answering and thanks for sharing your post that was fun to read!:)
After reading your old post I get a much better idea and I now understand the concept for a petition but what would we say this time. The little organizer that lurks inside of me is asking why not become members of these boards a couple days in advance so that the day you post that is all you have to do and not spend time setting up accounts that would allow us to hit a lot more places with our message.
Do more than one of you post on the same board? or do you get there and look to see if someone has all ready been?
do you decide in advance who's taking which boards ie divide them up amongst yourselves?
when I put in "bboard forum" in Yahoo I get 28,000 hits :eek: just a thought but if we each took 3-4 pages @ 20 sites per page and if we get through those then just announce it at the home board, pick the next batch of pages announce it and start posting and that way we wont be doubling up our efforts, just a thought ...maybe that is how you all ready do it I have no idea since I've never seen this done but it sounds like fun and I'd be willing to help.

Ojai22 just for the record I'm a passionate fan of the original BSG but I also like the "new one" although I don't think of it as BSG just a Sci Fi show with a few odd similarities LOL! ;) :D

[ojai22]

Ojai22 just for the record I'm a passionate fan of the original BSG but I also like the "new one" although I don't think of it as BSG just a Sci Fi show with a few odd similarities LOL! ;) :D

Rowan, that's okay. I don't mind the fans of the new, to me it's just another show, not BG-related, as I know BG.

I think for this Post-A-thon we were talking about just posting on that board at SciFi, TOS Board. We post whatever thoughts we have about the show, what we'd like to see in the movie. Reply to other fans posts. Just one post after another, saying whatever you feel.

I don't know what the plans are for this one, I'm hoping OWD will stop by and give more details. And yes, by all means, go there and register. Leave a test post to make sure you're signed in properly. We're posting there now, and have been for a few months.

Glad to have you with us this time. I know you'll like it.
:thumbsup:


:warrior:

[oldwardaggit]

Well Twin, you have pretty much said what I was going to once again and for all who are new here, that's exactly why I call ojai22 my twin. I can't count how many times we have posted almost the exact thing at the same time. We even join bboards at the same time and always without knowing that the other is doing so.

Post and have fun for this postathon. That's what I say and If it's anything like the first one, we will be lucky if we get to read any reply to our posts because the pages fill up pretty quick.

OWD

[ernie90125]

Just had this reply after contacting Radio Shack through their website...

----
Thank you for your email.

We do appreciate the feedback and will forward your comments to
advertising.

Thank you for taking the time to write. We do appreciate your
business.

Sincerely,

Kathy Mashburn
RadioShack Customer Care
----

I had noted it as FAO Jim Macdonald. But it would appear that it is to be forwarded the advertising department.....

[oldwardaggit]

So for the postathon, would this Thursday be too soon?

OWD