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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1332901" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, it's true.  The term "fan" is short for fanatic, you know.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And I'll note that the "most dedicated" audience is not necessarily the audience you care about.  In many (perhaps most) economic senses, their dedication is meaningless unless it shows up in the Neilsens.  Business-wise, there's something to be said for playing to a less-dedicated but larger casual audience.  Yeah.  And if the person doesn't get a vote the politician usually won't care what the person thinks, now will he? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  You're responding as if TV was akin to a well-represented democracy, where the voice of a minority can still matter.  I'm not sure that's a good model for today's commercial TV.Not necessarily every viewer.  To be honest, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the fans that participated in the Save Farscape campaign (fans like me) were seen as more trouble than we are worth.  The campaign certainly cost the channel in terms of time, money, and resources in handling the physical and electronic correspondance, if nothing else.  If we're going to be so uppity as to cost them extra money, do they really need us?  If you can get as many (or more) passive viewers who generate equivalent or greater ratings without the threat of resource-consuming fan campaigns, then you don't need the more demanding fans.</blockquote>

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