Help Save Guiding Light!

With CBS’s decision to no longer air Guiding Light, the longest running US daytime soap opera, after Sept 18, 2009, we devoted GL viewers are fighting to keep the LIGHT Guiding the way for the future of daytime soap operas by supporting the search for its new home. For 72 years this show has captivated audiences, via radio and television, and that will not be so easily dismissed. It is a multigenerational broadcast legacy that must be saved.

Even though CBS has not renewed their contract with the show, Proctor & Gamble/Telenext, the owners of the show, are actively looking for a new home for GL. They need our voices to be heard and counted so they can show the continued validity and demand this show still has. In the past year and a half, GL has reinvented itself in a new and exciting way. The hard work and dedication the creative team has put into this project needs to be applauded and encouraged to continue. This genre will die unless we who love it stand up and demand its salvation.

The Otalia fans are stepping up and leading the way. Daily campaign activities, guidance and information is being distributed at the Big Purple Dreams fan forum - http://z8.invisionfree.com/otaliafans/.

Here's a list of the main activities we are suggesting as ways people can help:

- Please call 866.695.1859 during business hours. It is an automated menu and announcement that lets you register your support of the show and its search for a new home. Just press 1, 1 and your done. Call often!

- Sign these petitions - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-guiding-light-on-air...http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/guiding-light-petition/

- Watch the show online daily at http://www.cbs.com/daytime/guiding_light/. It also airs on cbs tv, but, unless you have a Nielson box, watching online is your only way of being counted as a viewer.

- Please contact the following with notes of support and encouragement. Let them know you want the Light to keep shining bright ...

The Procter & Gamble Company
1 or 2, Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45201
Phone: 1-513-983-1100

Alan Lafley
CEO, Proctor and Gamble
1 P&G Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45201

Brian T. Cahill, Sr. V.P., Managing Director for TeleVest Daytime Programs
Procter & Gamble Productions c/o Televest
World Wide Plaza
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
newbusiness@telenextmedia.com

Meredith Eden Ring, Publicity Coordinator
Guiding Light
Televest Daytime
World Wide Plaza
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Greg Ross
Vice President, Media and Programming
Procter & Gamble
One Procter & Gamble Plaza
PO Box 599
Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-0599

PGP e-mail: comments.im@pg.com
Telenext : 212-474-5888

- P&G is rumored to be shopping the show to SOAPnet so contacting them and letting them know viewers are wanting it is very important! Here is their info:

Contact Information
SOAPnet, LLC
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-6078
CA Tel. 818-560-1000
Fax 818-560-1930

SVP Daytime and SOAPnet Sales: Heidi Lobel
SVP ABC Media Production and SVP Alternative Programming and Development, SOAPnet: Ann Lewis Roberts
President Daytime, Disney ABC Television: Brian S. Frons

Want to give feedback about programming on SOAPnet? Call us at: 818-460-7477
Got questions about SOAPnet.com?Email us at: help@soapnet.com

- P&G may also be pitching the show to the Lifetime and Oxygen channels. Here is their information:

LIFETIME
http://www.mylifetime.com/

LIFETIME OFFICES AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES:
President and CEO, Lifetime Networks: Andrea Wong
Executive Vice President, Ad Sales: Debbie Richman
Executive Vice President, Digital Media & Business Development: Dan Suratt
Executive Vice President, Public Affairs & Corporate Communications: Meredith Wagner

C/O:
NEW YORK (Headquarters) [If you write here, it has to be a postcard only]
World Wide Plaza
309 West 49th Street
New York, New York 10019
tel: (212) 424-7000

Co-Chief Marketing Officers: Bob Bibb, Lew Goldstein
Executive Vice President, Entertainment: JoAnn Alfano
Executive Vice President, Distribution: Lori Conkling

C/O:
LOS ANGELES 2049 Century Park East
Suite 840Los Angeles, CA 90067
tel: (310) 556-7500

OTHER ADDRESSES:
NEW YORK (Studios)
111 8th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
tel: (212) 641-3000

CHICAGO
444 North Michigan Ave.
Suite 3270
Chicago, IL 60611
tel: (312) 464-1991

OTHER NY NUMBERS AND AN EMAIL:
(212) 424-7293
(212) 424-7122 (Viewer Relations)

EMAILS TO WRITE TO:
SENIOR EXECUTIVES:
viewerrelations@lifetimetv.com
wong@lifetimetv.com
bibb@lifetimetv.com
goldstein@lifetimetv.com
richman@lifetimetv.com
wagner@lifetimetv.com
suratt@lifetimetv.com
jalfano@lifetimetv.com

OXYGEN (Owned by NBC/Universal)
Directly from their site: The following guideline is important.

Please let us know what you think! We love to hear feedback from our viewers, because it's your comments and ideas that help us continue to develop and improve Oxygen all the time.

Your Comments: Please keep your comments under 700 characters.

Please select your subject:
TV Feedback (O2.feedback@nbcuni.com)
Contact Oxygen's Affiliate Sales Representatives: https://www.nbcunetworks.com/
For all things Press, please visit: http://nbcumv.com/oxygen/

Mailing Address:
c/o Oxygen Media, LLC, 75 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

EXECUTIVES we should target:
Lauren Zalaznick, President Of Women's Lifestyle Networks, NBC Universal (including Oxygen and Bravo)
Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development
Bryan Hale, Vice President, Original Programming and Development

Blanchard, Cameron
Senior Vice President - Communications
Phone: (212) 664-7202
Fax: (212) 664-6293
Division(s): Bravo, Oxygen

- Also, contact CBS and let them know how disappointed you are. They can always change their minds, though it is doubtful.

CBS Programming Dept - 212-975-4321

Please do not give up on Guiding Light! It can and will be saved.
Thank you for your support.