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A CEO replied to my email at 8 p.m. via his iPhone, and the bi-coastal bias in broadcasting

NotHardUp1

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So, I was browsing my SamsungTV free channels to see if any movie would be on that I had not seen tonight, and was once again disappointed to see the same lineup I've been seeing for days and days on the few channels I actually even include in my channel list.

All that is not newsworthy.

The goal in most of the programming seems to be to drive most viewers away from the free broadcasts into subscribing to streaming channels with premiums. That said, one channel has been particularly obnoxious, so I decided to see if I could find out why.

Filmrise Action on Channel 1463 on SamsungTV, has been airing Streets of Blood now for at least a week, maybe more, back to back to back. Nothing else has been broadcast. When I first saw this on the on-air guide, I thought it was a listing glitch. There are lots of glitches in the computer programming that lists the programs and their summaries.

Nope. It's real. I would occasionally stop on the channel, and sure enough, they're doing it.

My second thought was that Val Kilmer had died. Nope. He's still alive. No news to the contrary.

My third thought was that he was on his deathbed or similar, from his cancer, and that someone decided to play his movie excessively to give him a boost in royalties, as some kind of favor. Not likely, but possible, if he even gets anything from streaming content.

I knew from previous experience that there is no one "there" for any of these free online channels. They're just programming slices that someone sells to advertizers and then programs in some database. But, I figured I'd see if I could find a contact for Filmrise.

And I did.

My email was brief. Stop laughing. It was.

In only two sentences, I identified where I watch Filmrise Action and then asked why it was programming the same movie over and over, exclusively.
Off it went into the ether.

I expected to get some boiler plate response from someone's programmed Inbox, and never have my question answered. But we dream.

WRONG!!!

Less than five minutes after, the CEO of Filmrise responds via his iPhone and signs his name!!! His reply, "Thank you for reaching out - this should not be happening and we will investigate."

A tad cynical, I think, "Is this some after-hours support tech, the equal of a movie projectionist, pulling my leg and signing 'CEO'?"

My quick Google search said otherwise. He really, REALLY is the CEO, and his story is well worth the long read, not only of my thread's OP, but the lengthy article in The Hollywood Reporter about him and his bankruptcy, and subsequent brilliance. He's a real rags to riches guy, the son of Holocaust survivors.

It was this guy:

DannyFisher-filmrise.jpg


If you've ever wondered about how free internet TV programming works, then this article will inform you very well indeed:

www.hollywoodreporter.com

How FilmRise Built an Indie, Free Streaming Network From Unearthing Under-the-Radar Titles

By betting big, and early, on the potential of advertising-backed streaming, Danny Fisher has grown the firm from a Brooklyn basement startup into a major digital presence.
www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com

The article mentions the bi-coastal bias of media companies and how he's made a fortune ignoring it. Imagine a CEO who has the website email contact set to go to his personal attention. Imagine.

If you're having a slow night, this is a pretty good read. Hope you enjoy it.
 
Maybe now you could email the CEO of WalMart and ask him who he thinks would possibly want a 3-pack of Timecop for $9.99.
 
Peloso said:
Maybe now you could email the CEO of WalMart and ask him who he thinks would possibly want a 3-pack of Timecop for $9.99.
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Funny story. My grandfather was a crackerjack troubleshooter during the 1930's for a retail dry goods chain in South Arkansas and North Louisiana. He was able to get delinquent customer accounts to begin paying a little each month and return the stores' balances back into the black.

He died in 1970, so I never had any grown-up conversations with him, as I was only 9, and he had been a carpenter only during my lifetime.

Decades later, after Wal-Mart became a thing, Grandmother began telling us that Granddaddy had worked alongside Sam Walton before Sam started his stores. Supposedly, Walton had been over some department in a store somewhere with my grandfather.

We just accepted it as one of those brushes with fame people have. Only last year did I research it and learn it could not be true. None of the locations or dates lined up. My grandmother never lied any time I am aware of. What we missed was her dementia all that time until it grew obvious years later. It's a sleeper . . . kinda like my posts.
 
Alistair said:
I’d rather he ask why he thinks the customer should be required to self-checkout then be harassed at the exit door over their receipt.
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Y'know, I have to believe some enterprising man will exploit the wide dissatisfaction with the self-service deterioration that is spreading among grocers and retailers. Even if it is only 10-30% of customers, that a huge slice of sales.

Our dollars are not insignificant and we understand the attempt to herd us into the false dichotomy that we can get out speedier self-checking instead of being served.

As for the frisk at the door by the checker, I understand the problem. Shrinkage via shoplifting is growing all the time. We see the video of smash and grab type of theft, too. I have to believe that the human standing at the door is as much about being a threat to someone trying to run past as anything, and possibly to aid in testifying to identity in prosecutions when security cameras are less than conclusive.

I know Costco uses the checker too, and you wouldn't think their problem would be nearly as severe as a retailer who doesn't require paid membership.

I rarely am stopped at Wal-Mart, although I rarely go there, too.

Not sure how many people I have ever witnessed harassed by the receipt checkers. I think that inherently must be rare, else their customers go elsewhere.
 
For the record, Streets of Blood is still showing on Filmrise Action, so the CEO's muscle apparently cannot make anyone jump before 10 a.m. EST.

That said, who knows where the servers are maintained or if the tech who programs the broadcast schedules is in the Far East, or wherever?

And, it may be related to SamsungTV. Maybe their service is at fault, not Filmrise's. The online channels have a great deal of apathy and neglect that is attendant to them. They screw up a lot, and mismanage the guide that feeds to the viewer. Entire programs are mislabelled and it never gets corrected.

It's the rot.
 
And I still think the great thing in The Hollywood Reporter article is the admission from a New Yorker that the media moguls are unduly influenced by the East and West Coasts.

Only the biggest fish interest them.

That bias is so much at the core of the anger by the rest of the country at being perpetually misrepresented, stepped over, and given take-it-or-leave-it choices by the media.
 
We're so sorry that this happened to you. We don't have any real live representatives, but please stay on the line while we demonstrate how important your whining is to us.
 
I didn't expect they had ANY representatives. My guess was the free channels were only to sell ads and drive people to subscribe to streaming services.

Hence, my shock at a CEO being the email recipient.

Maybe there are only two employees.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
My guess was the free channels were only to sell ads and drive people to subscribe to streaming services.
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They hook you with decent content and then yank it after a few days or a week. I'm currently mid way through a show on Amazon's freevee and any day now I fully expect to find that I can only finish it if I sign up for MGM+.
 
Ok. Now email CNN and get Chris Licht's boss fired.
 
I should be faithful to report that programming has now resumed to the plan, and that Streets of Blood is no longer being shown 24/7.

That's not even a channel I watch often, but I think it is the one that has the weird and wonderful Korean movies a couple of weeks ago that featured their gods, myths and a crazy afterlife quest.

Today, I only notice a Viggo Mortensen movie that I never heard of. That's not a good sign.
 
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