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

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

OWD

[peter noble]

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

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/C...ions.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]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[jewels]

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

[shiningstar]

Originally Posted by amberstar

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

I soooooooooooo agree!

[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]

Originally Posted by 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

THat's so great

[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]

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

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]

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

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]

Originally Posted by peter noble

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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

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...cts/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.