This started last night on Twitter and into today… my friend Stephane has decided to make it his mission to get me onto The Hour to meet George. Read from the bottom up below:
june 26 2009
If you’d like to help him (and see me be awkward on TV) click on his name above. And regardless if this works dude thanks, I’m flattered.
I really do think you deserve to appear on the hour Keri. I re-watched your manifesto video today and you are right that Canada needs to celebrate itself more. Your endeavor is a great one!
For anyone willing to help, start by writing George himself here:
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/georgereadsthemail.html
It says he may not read all… but if he gets at mine or anyone else’s and we can get him to come here on this site and maybe talk to Keri on the phone… it will happen!!!
Also you can use the shows email address to write them directly: thehour@cbc.ca. I did the first, will do this one over the weekend.
Next, don’t forget Twitter as this is where it all started for me after a mutual friend introduced me to Keri. You can tweet George here @strombo Again, it’s a matter of getting Keri and the Canadian Explorer name to his attention.
Finally, why not send The Hour some post cards or letters through good old snail mail:
THE HOUR
c/o CBC Television
P.O. Box 500, Station "A"
Toronto, Ont.
M5W 1E6
We need to get the word out about the Canadian Explorer and George is also a big proponent of Canadian pride and greatness. Once he hears about Keri… he will HAVE to invite her on the show :)
That you’d give your extra time to doing this, well, I’m touched dude.
I like your idea about snail mail so will send him one of my postcards this week. Probably the one in the middle, with the bears on the dolphin; that’s my best one.
http://www.thecanadianexplorer.com/home/2009/4/23/my-physical-address.html
I’m still a little freaked like, what if this works? I’ll bring my camera and film while they spray me orange (heard they do that, makes you camera ready) and well, that’s as far as it has got in my head.
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The Hour’s in summer repeats for the time being, and George doesn’t even write the scripts or questions for the show, let alone choose who gets on. The campaign would have better luck if, aside from targeting George, someone got in touch with the producers of the show. The show/George’s publicist also just left a few days ago, so everything’s on hold for now.
Also, the chance of success for getting on The Hour is about zero, right now, due to the general mission of the show; because The Hour, unlike radio programming, relies on ratings and advertising to stay on they also need to get bigger names (seriously, no offense meant) on the show in order to stay afloat, and the ratings really aren’t all that high to begin with…
Getting on something like Q or Spark on Radio One would actually be pretty feasible, though. I’ll mention something to the Spark producers and Nora next week, perhaps get the two of us on as part of some future video podcasting/exploration of Toronto feature.
Well, I knew that getting Keri invited as a guest on the Hour was a long shot, but it certainly won’t work if we don’t try ;) At the very least I think it would be great if we could get Georges to mention Keri and the Canadian Explorer on the air, maybe in the "Mile A Minute" segment or even better, during "World of Good News".
In any case, I have now published my crazy little call for help on my blog:
http://www.pixelyzed.com/pixellog/index.cfm/2009/6/28/Kelp-me-Get-Keri-the-Canadian-Explorer-on-The-Hour
Now, let’s dare to dream!
I think no matter the outcome, this campaign is a complete success.