Petition to stop SIMPLY Quilts from airing only once a day

Brigid,

Please don't try to get a fight started over this. People will sign a petition if they like Simply Quilts whether or not someone is selling junk on Ebay. As IF that was any incentive. Good grief.

We are always cautious ladies and gentlemen.

Excuse me, but HGTV is not free. We pay extra to our cable companies to get access to that channel and the discovery channel and all the "specialty" channels.

The Stations should be told by the viewers which shows we love (and hate) because if they don't know how to please us they will lose many of us as viewers. BTW I grew bored of Christopher Lowell long ago He isn't on PBS he is on Discovery channel. His newest format sucks. The number of decorating shows on cable is going through the roof. However, there are very few sewing shows, and that doesn't make sense. Most of the decorating shows have segments where people are making their own pillows and drapes and slip covers, yet they aren't giving any sewing lessons. Gee, thanks for the inspiration, now how about some step by step advice?

In the mean time we are at the mercy of PBS for bringing us shows like Fons and Porter, Quilt in a day,Seww much fun, Sew Beautiful, and America Sews. However we are lucky if we get each of these programs once a week and it depends on if our local pbs carries them. My local pbs in NYC is channal13 and they don't have the shows mentioned, but my cable provider brings in 2 other PBS station (21 &25) from long island and they do sometimes have the sewing and quilting shows.

The only other show we have right now on cable is sew much more on DIY, and her focus is clothing.

We want and need more sewing shows. If you want to watch Christopher Lowell instead, its a free world. Enjoy it. Don't tell us though that we should rely upon "The company will make great decisions for you to view and that appeal to a larger group of people.". We have a right to let the company know that they do have a large audience for this show. The petition is already at 3959 signatures! As the word spreads through the various news groups and private e-mail lists it will continue to grow, and hopefully hgtv will reconsider what programming they choose to offer, because ultimately if they don't please the audience, the audience goes elsewhere, and then they lose advertising dollars!

BTW she is not what I consider a self promoter. If you ever watched the show you would see that she has different guests on almost every episode to showcase and explain new techniques and ideas. I tune in to see her guests.

Rebecca ( and yes I signed the petition!)

Howdy! All the other stuff aside, friendly snipping having occurred, please note that we are not totally at the mercy of PBS for deciding on their own whether or not to broadcast quilt shows. As a viewer, as a group of viewers, it's our choice. And money talks. Our quilt guild and those guilds in next door cities provide some funding for several quilt shows. We ask, we support, we watch. We put it in our annual budget. Quilters around the Metroplex (Ft.Worth-Dallas) call in their pledges, send in their money, and note that "it's for quilting programs" on the check. We get quilt shows at least 5 days a week. PBS does not produce the quilt shows we love; they buy them or are provided them from the quiltmakers. It's up to the viewers to ask for them if they're missing. That's no guarantee, of course, but when the money shows up , so do the shows. That's how PBS works.

As for Simply Quilts, I don't really care if it stays around or not. Of course the host is self-promoting; she's the host! Why else put her face out there? Thing is, she's also got the advertisers and the clout behind her to promote quilting. Go, Alex!

Ragmop/Sandy

As a (very tiny) example - Here in Los Angeles, the primary PBS station, KCET, doesn't carry any of the sewing and quilting shows. KOCE in nearby Orange County, DOES. We only get KOCE on cable, but my wife has insisted for years that we support and donate to KOCE. With every check we write to them, we include a short note telling them why; at the same time, when we get KCET's incessant requests, we reply and tell them why they're NOT receiving our support.

- Herb

Ellis>

There used to be a PBS station in Huntington Beach that carried more than KCET. I lived in Covina then, but could still pick it with my rooftop antenna. A co-worker lived in La Habra and installed a second antenna especially for that station (he linked the two and used an A/B switch).