trekkie
08-03-2003, 12:40 AM
I apologize if this post may seem inapropriate, but I'm hoping to attract more people to this project. The link to the campaign flyer is located below this message:
"It is not myself I am thinking about, but it is the affect of what might happen to whatever is left that bothers me" -- Walt Disney
The "new" Disney Channel is ignoring the very principles they were founded under and is spitting on the Disney name as a whole.
The following comment is from a once proud Disney Channel viewer who has signed the official petition. They sum up our case perfectly:
"I live in an area where the Disney Channel is a premium channel. After
subscribing for nearly ten years, we un-subscribed in the fall of 1998 ...
Fall [of] 1998 was when I started college, so I had grown up with the Disney Channel but had lost interest with the changing program. Without me at home, my parents nixed the channel. Through the 'old' Disney Channel, I was introduced to wonderful old movies. It was on Disney that I first saw a lot of the Disney classics as well as Hollywood classics like the musicals of Rogers and Hammerstein. It used to be programming that my parents and I could watch together when I was younger. Now the only group your channel plays to is the 12 and under crowd. Shame on you! Disney is about family and once this channel was for family, now it's a commercial filled un-watchable channel for Disney fans. I might as well watch Nickelodeon or MTV and I don't have to pay extra."
If certain areas in this company ignore their principles, they stop the
Disney name from flourishing. Not just as a company. But also as a man. A pioneer. Walt Disney, to be precise. Whose philosophy in the Disney Company was always to entice people to visit all of their masterpieces by providing nothing but "High quality family entertainment." The company he built currently preaches about family, yet at the same time ignores the very aspects and principles of family entertainment upon which they were built.
When the Disney Channel began to ignore these ideals, they helped to stop the Disney name from flourishing. Not just as a company. And flourishing into what it was destined to be.
But also as a man. And what he was always meant to be.
Please, help in the fight to start up a Vault Disney or Disney Family Channel; and put family programming there. What is the harm of mixing in classic Disney films and TV shows, for current and future generations to enjoy, with great non-Disney family fare? After all, "this" is where Disney came from; "this" is where Disney was more of a magical legacy than a generic brand name, such as Nickelodeon or MTV.
I remember watching Bonanza on the Hallmark Channel one night, and I got kind of teary eyed during the commercial breaks when they showed previews of what westerns and original all-American movies were coming up. I remember thinking to myself "This is how the Disney Channel used to be; these are the values upon which it was built." The only difference is that Disney included cartoons and other children's programming during weekday mornings and afternoons.
But the Hallmark Channel is what the Disney Channel once was; and what the Disney Channel was always meant to be.
And It's sad.
Back in the good days of the channel (1980's-early 90's), the station was widely flourishing; maybe not as much as today with the 16 and under crowd, but it was doing just fine. It would have been fine if there were added a few more kiddy shows to make the channel more popular with the young crowd, but instead the entire daytime lineup was converted to a preteens dreamland. At least the Disney Channel had Vault Disney; that us until last year, when Eisner & Co totally did away with it. Why wouldn't today's generation like Old Yeller, Davy Crockett, Five Mile Creek, Avonlea, Heidi, Apple Dumpling Gang, or even the masterful nature series? What about the DL/WDW history programs on each parks' birthday? This is where Disney came from; classics such as these are true family classics; and they deserve to be showcased! I grew up during the 1980's, and I loved programs like Old Yeller, Heidi, Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Pollyanna, Davy Crockett, the
Parent Trap, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Swiss Family Robinson, the Shaggy Dog, the Apple Dumpling Gang, Mary Poppins, classic Disney animated films, etc when I first saw them in the 1980's. Many children today who end up watching the older classics on DVD actually do like them. Very much, in fact. Problem is, though, their parents are the ones who want the discs in the first place, and thus these kids wouldn't even see these movies if it weren't for mommy and daddy. By deciding not to air the old films and television specials, the company is not giving them more of a chance. A chance with a younger generation; one that deserves to know the history. The legacy. The very building blocks of this great company: its morals, its principals, its values, and, most importantly, the part they have played in America and her proud history. They deserve to know who Walt Disney was; for he is not only one of the greatest showman who ever lived, but was, and is, undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans. He was, and is, certainly one of the most beloved. And they deserve to know what he stood for.
And we deserve to tell them.
PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preservethemagic
AND THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN FLYER (In PDF format) TO PRINT AND HAND OUT:
http://www.geocities.com/wdtv/DisneyChannel7-30-03.pdf
"It is not myself I am thinking about, but it is the affect of what might happen to whatever is left that bothers me" -- Walt Disney
The "new" Disney Channel is ignoring the very principles they were founded under and is spitting on the Disney name as a whole.
The following comment is from a once proud Disney Channel viewer who has signed the official petition. They sum up our case perfectly:
"I live in an area where the Disney Channel is a premium channel. After
subscribing for nearly ten years, we un-subscribed in the fall of 1998 ...
Fall [of] 1998 was when I started college, so I had grown up with the Disney Channel but had lost interest with the changing program. Without me at home, my parents nixed the channel. Through the 'old' Disney Channel, I was introduced to wonderful old movies. It was on Disney that I first saw a lot of the Disney classics as well as Hollywood classics like the musicals of Rogers and Hammerstein. It used to be programming that my parents and I could watch together when I was younger. Now the only group your channel plays to is the 12 and under crowd. Shame on you! Disney is about family and once this channel was for family, now it's a commercial filled un-watchable channel for Disney fans. I might as well watch Nickelodeon or MTV and I don't have to pay extra."
If certain areas in this company ignore their principles, they stop the
Disney name from flourishing. Not just as a company. But also as a man. A pioneer. Walt Disney, to be precise. Whose philosophy in the Disney Company was always to entice people to visit all of their masterpieces by providing nothing but "High quality family entertainment." The company he built currently preaches about family, yet at the same time ignores the very aspects and principles of family entertainment upon which they were built.
When the Disney Channel began to ignore these ideals, they helped to stop the Disney name from flourishing. Not just as a company. And flourishing into what it was destined to be.
But also as a man. And what he was always meant to be.
Please, help in the fight to start up a Vault Disney or Disney Family Channel; and put family programming there. What is the harm of mixing in classic Disney films and TV shows, for current and future generations to enjoy, with great non-Disney family fare? After all, "this" is where Disney came from; "this" is where Disney was more of a magical legacy than a generic brand name, such as Nickelodeon or MTV.
I remember watching Bonanza on the Hallmark Channel one night, and I got kind of teary eyed during the commercial breaks when they showed previews of what westerns and original all-American movies were coming up. I remember thinking to myself "This is how the Disney Channel used to be; these are the values upon which it was built." The only difference is that Disney included cartoons and other children's programming during weekday mornings and afternoons.
But the Hallmark Channel is what the Disney Channel once was; and what the Disney Channel was always meant to be.
And It's sad.
Back in the good days of the channel (1980's-early 90's), the station was widely flourishing; maybe not as much as today with the 16 and under crowd, but it was doing just fine. It would have been fine if there were added a few more kiddy shows to make the channel more popular with the young crowd, but instead the entire daytime lineup was converted to a preteens dreamland. At least the Disney Channel had Vault Disney; that us until last year, when Eisner & Co totally did away with it. Why wouldn't today's generation like Old Yeller, Davy Crockett, Five Mile Creek, Avonlea, Heidi, Apple Dumpling Gang, or even the masterful nature series? What about the DL/WDW history programs on each parks' birthday? This is where Disney came from; classics such as these are true family classics; and they deserve to be showcased! I grew up during the 1980's, and I loved programs like Old Yeller, Heidi, Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Pollyanna, Davy Crockett, the
Parent Trap, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Swiss Family Robinson, the Shaggy Dog, the Apple Dumpling Gang, Mary Poppins, classic Disney animated films, etc when I first saw them in the 1980's. Many children today who end up watching the older classics on DVD actually do like them. Very much, in fact. Problem is, though, their parents are the ones who want the discs in the first place, and thus these kids wouldn't even see these movies if it weren't for mommy and daddy. By deciding not to air the old films and television specials, the company is not giving them more of a chance. A chance with a younger generation; one that deserves to know the history. The legacy. The very building blocks of this great company: its morals, its principals, its values, and, most importantly, the part they have played in America and her proud history. They deserve to know who Walt Disney was; for he is not only one of the greatest showman who ever lived, but was, and is, undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans. He was, and is, certainly one of the most beloved. And they deserve to know what he stood for.
And we deserve to tell them.
PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preservethemagic
AND THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN FLYER (In PDF format) TO PRINT AND HAND OUT:
http://www.geocities.com/wdtv/DisneyChannel7-30-03.pdf