JEBS - Weekly Announcements for 8/14/09

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Weekly Announcements for the Jericho Fandom
Jericho Electronic Broadcast System (JEBS)
August 14, 2009

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Weekly Gatherings

Beau's Bark - Come join our "open house" chat for most of Tuesday evening to accommodate the time zones!! This is a fun time to get together with old friends and make some new ones! Looking forward to seeing you there! http://www.radiofreejericho.com/chat.html

Sportsman Lodge Bar- Every Friday 9:30 pm EST/ 6:30 pm PST, drop by have a drink and share a story. Go to last page of this thread:
http://boards.nbcuni.com/universalHD...showtopic=3379

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East Coast Ranger Gathering
The East Coast Gathering in Baltimore, MD is scheduled for September 18-20. It is sure to be a once in a lifetime event. Lee and Beebull (from Baltimore) have put together a great weekend and I for one am looking forward to it.

http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en...WIARGI　
We will be attending the Redsox-Oriels game at Camden Yards on Saturday, September 19th and need a final head count by Monday August 25th.

The $89 rate at the Hilton Garden Inn/ Arundel Mills in Baltimore runs through August 18, 2009. We are hoping to extend it for another week.

Hilton Garden Inn Baltimore/Arundel Mills 7491-A New Ridge Road, Hanover, Maryland, USA 21076 Tel: 1-410-878-7200

http://eastcoastrangergathering.blogspot.com/ visit Lee's Blog dedicated to the event.
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Operation Comic Book

August 14, 2009
Hello Fellow Rangers. Hope you are all enjoying the summer. Before you know it summer will be gone and Fall will arrive. The Jericho Comic Book titled Season 3 will release 6 comic books in the series starting in late October.

I just wanted to provide an update for the Fandom. I was watching the movie Gandhi last weekend. It starts with Gandhi arriving back to India in 1915 and we follow him and the struggle for 32 years until the British walked out of India in 1947 as Gandhi had predicted to the Royal Governor some 25 years prior to 1947.

Why I mention Gandhi is it had several parallels to our fight for Jericho. First and foremost is that similar to the India's fight against the British Empire we have been battling for a long time against a very powerful foe, CBS Television. The Indians won because they stayed the course and hurt the British where it counted most, in the pocket book. Losing access to 300 million customers for everything from clothing to tea to home goods, drained the British economy and eventually the decision to leave was their only option.

We are going to do the same thing in reverse. We already know via the producers' statements at Comic Con, in San Diego, on July 24th that they were very pleased with the ratings on the CW for the 29 episode rerun. Now we need to deliver sales of the comic beyond that magic number they need to justify green-lighting the movie. We want to drive sales, add new rangers and deliver cards and letters to CBS and DDP come October leaving no doubt that there is still plenty of money to be made continuing the Jericho story.

Ratkeeper was at comic con and she says that the producers and the person form CBS were extremely happy with the turnout. In addition, please note that the comic book has been titled Season 3 which leads to the logical assumption that there may be a Season 4, we do not know if it will be a movie or maybe more.

To that end we will get the movie and possibly another season of Jericho on television only if we deliver sales of the comic series that meet or exceed the sales goals set forth by the bean counters and executives at CBS. We have a real shot and we want to maximize our chances by being as proactive as possible.

Operation Comic Book-on UHD Board:


http://boards.nbcuni.com/universalHD...showtopic=3607

The main way to deliver sales and to build interest is to purchase and/or pre-order the comic book form your local comic book store. You can locate your local comic shop at

www.comicshoplocator.com.

This is important because it helps us continue to build the Jericho grass roots efforts and also drives DDP and CBS to make and distribute more issues if they see demand coming from comic shops all over the US and Canada.
Another way to help is to work with Jericho Rangers for Our Troops (JR4OT) and Jericho 4 Kids is once again working to promote Jericho and help our troops over seas. For those who want to contribute to that effort please visit

www.comicsfortroops.com.
You can also go to

www.savingjericho.com which is the new informational website designed to help new fans and old to locate the various fan communities and to what they can do to promote Jericho and help with the comic book.
Building the Jericho fanbase from the ground up starts at places like UHD Baord, IDMB, JKI, Jericho Rally Point and Radio Free Jericho. Maybei and the Folks at

www.radiofreejericho.com have been promoting Jericho for almost 3 years with things like podcasts, interviews and having a very active fan group that have continued to stay together some 16 months after the 2nd temporary cancellation. Finding ways to keep people interested without spending a lot of money is a key element to continuing to build our fanbase　 　
Soon we will be sending out a blast email to Rangers via email, Facebook, on Twitter and through other social networks all letting them know about Operation Comic Book and how they can help. Thanks to Denny Wilson and Ichtus.

Advertising: Beebull has been very proactive and has had several discussions with local shop owners in Baltimore. They state that making postcard size advertising and leaving them around the shops to be picked up is the best approach and we are working on securing a site where people can go and down load Jericho Comic book postcard art work to leave at their local shops.

For those who might be interested in helping out at local conventions please check out

http://www.conventionscene.com/sched...okconventions/. We are looking to secure Fan tables at various comic cons and scifi conventions and once we do, we will be looking for volunteers to work the tables.
We have all traveled a long road together, and whatever we can do over the next couple months will collectively bring us over the finish line. Everyone has a part to play great or small, we need your talents, energy and spirit. Together we will make History Again!

Stay the Course and Keep the Faith

Redsox 1986

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Looking for fans near . . .

Denver, Colorado
Seattle, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Portland, Oregon

We are trying to get fan tables set up at Comic or Sci Fi cons in major cities. Above is the list for the Western region. We will be publishing the list for the Eastern region soon. In most cases, this will be minimal cost (table and ticket are minimal cost or free).

We have a con kit that can be mailed to you. Please let us know if you or anyone you know is interested: [email]gwen@az-technology.com[/email]

This is the way many fandoms grow; by going to conventions and letting people know what is happening about their show. We received many "Thanks You's" at Comic Con International - people were just so happy we were there to update them.
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Buy the Jericho Collector's Preview (Ashcan) for $5

Check out the preview that was sold at Comic Con. Available only on the Devil's Due Publishing (DDP) website:
http://devilsdue.net/index.php?page=...mart&Itemid=54

Note: Some people have reported problems with DDP's website, so we have notified DDP of this. While we are waiting to hear back from them, the website was checked out by someone, with an extensive background in computers, and it looks clean.
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Outside Jericho

Cast and Crew News

From KrzyKitty: "Collector", Season 2 with Chris Kramer (Chavez) will be available on October 13th:
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Collector-S...9854286&sr=1-1
Pre-order now!

From Schumi's Twitter stream: TCA Press tour - Human Target, Jon Steinberg (Jericho creator), brings the action hero to TV.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...ero-to-tv.html

From Karim Zreik's Twitter Account: "Harper's Island", from Junction Entertainment, premiers on the BBC on September 6th. Flying back to Vancouver on Sunday with Adam Campbell (Cal) to finish "Harper's Island" special for the BBC. Re-visiting all the locations.


Apocalyptic News

AMC joins the Post-apocalyptic Bandwagon with the zombie post-apocalyptic grapic novel series "The Walking Dead":
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...&cs=1&nid=2248

Little Red Riding Hood in a post-apocalyptic adventure:
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/...dventur e.php
At the end of the article is the link to download the game - it's a fun game!!

A post-apocalyptic novel, Eschatos, on a blog:
http://eschatosbook.blogspot.com/