I think Qubox and a few other hit the nail on the head. I don't have Fios... Actually I am an engineer for a small triple play provider in Kansas. I was able to pull some strings and get Funimation on our system (being an anime lover myself). At first it was great, but after a while... .. . The repeats are maddening!!! In this day and age most people have a DVR, there is no need to repeat episodes so often. I actually just saw the notice tonight... Yea... that is how long it has been since I've tuned in. I love the channel, but I swear a team of monkeys is in control of the scheduling.
I fully support and feel for those of you on Fios, but hopefully Funimation will take this as a wake up call as well. Work on your scheduling. The content is great, just fix how often you have repeats and maybe people will stay tuned in longer.
Side note, the price for the channel is nothing compared to ESPN and their BS, but it is still higher than some of the other pud channels that people can randomly flip through. Fix the scheduling and maybe people will stay locked onto the channel longer. (something I had to beg the uppers to look past... just to give the channel a chance.)
At this point the only thing Funimation could do to stay on Fios without a huge (by huge I mean HUGE) uproar form the viewers is to lower their price. And I am sure they are well into negations on that. The truth of the matter is that Verizon is a bigger company than Funimation and will do what ever they can to push for lower rates when it comes time to renew contracts. DTV and Dish network do stuff like this all the time. (A few years ago one of the big sat providers had a battle with a big content provider over prices and blacked out every one of the channels for close to a month until they were able to negotiate a price.)
I hope the Fios thing works out because that will be a huge revenue hit for the channel and most likely impact those of use who will still have it. (for now)
Good luck and very interested to see how things progress,
J
This one has over 1700 signatures.
I sent an email to the organizers of the Otakon and they posted the pending cancellation on their facebook page.
I hope we can overturn Verizon's decision then we can work on programming challenges with funimation. Even if with its odd programming, funimation is still my favorite station and the only reason I keep verizon.
Is the AT&T u-verse available in richmond va? anyone know? Well, I guess I could look that up.....
I haven't watched FUN in a while, single mom, really hard. Then I thought... kids love cartoons... so why not anime? Then on the bottom of the screen I saw that they were going to cancel the channel?! I'm heartbroken!! I have noticed they're showing really weird and I suppose oldish anime. What happened to Kiddy Grade?? And Kodacha?? I loved those shows. I remember they use to show Peach Girl and Fuits Basket, they should see about their choice of shows. And the commercials make no sense with the channel itself. There are a ton of changes they could make. I'd hate to have the channel go and my daughter have to grow up with... Barney..
I haven't watched FUN in a while, single mom, really hard. Then I thought... kids love cartoons... so why not anime? Then on the bottom of the screen I saw that they were going to cancel the channel?! I'm heartbroken!! I have noticed they're showing really weird and I suppose oldish anime. What happened to Kiddy Grade?? And Kodacha?? I loved those shows. I remember they use to show Peach Girl and Fuits Basket, they should see about their choice of shows. And the commercials make no sense with the channel itself. There are a ton of changes they could make. I'd hate to have the channel go and my daughter have to grow up with... Barney..
-Sesshy er
You must have been away for some time. Peach girl hasn't been on in nearly two years, longer for fruits basket and kiddie grade.
You also have noticed the craziness that is becoming the chief complaint about funimation... The lack of a coherent programming schedule. If viewership is down, it is most likely due to this lack of a consistent schedule.
Have hope. It looks like Verizon made the decision on thier own without talking to funimation. At least it appears they were blindsided by the decision. hopefully discussions will be fruitful for all sides.
We're all linked together through anime... It's something we all are passionate about and even if you've never met anyone in this forum in your life you still know them... us fans are connected... When a New Yorker laughs at Tama-chan a Texan is doing the same thing... that's special and we can't let FiOS take that!!!
(For those of you who don't know who Tama-chan is, shame on you, but it's Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club... you should be watching )
We're all linked together through anime... It's something we all are passionate about and even if you've never met anyone in this forum in your life you still know them... us fans are connected... When a New Yorker laughs at Tama-chan a Texan is doing the same thing... that's special and we can't let FiOS take that!!!
(For those of you who don't know who Tama-chan is, shame on you, but it's Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club... you should be watching )
I think Qubox and a few other hit the nail on the head. I don't have Fios... Actually I am an engineer for a small triple play provider in Kansas. I was able to pull some strings and get Funimation on our system (being an anime lover myself). At first it was great, but after a while... .. . The repeats are maddening!!! In this day and age most people have a DVR, there is no need to repeat episodes so often. I actually just saw the notice tonight... Yea... that is how long it has been since I've tuned in. I love the channel, but I swear a team of monkeys is in control of the scheduling.
I fully support and feel for those of you on Fios, but hopefully Funimation will take this as a wake up call as well. Work on your scheduling. The content is great, just fix how often you have repeats and maybe people will stay tuned in longer.
Side note, the price for the channel is nothing compared to ESPN and their BS, but it is still higher than some of the other pud channels that people can randomly flip through. Fix the scheduling and maybe people will stay locked onto the channel longer. (something I had to beg the uppers to look past... just to give the channel a chance.)
At this point the only thing Funimation could do to stay on Fios without a huge (by huge I mean HUGE) uproar form the viewers is to lower their price. And I am sure they are well into negations on that. The truth of the matter is that Verizon is a bigger company than Funimation and will do what ever they can to push for lower rates when it comes time to renew contracts. DTV and Dish network do stuff like this all the time. (A few years ago one of the big sat providers had a battle with a big content provider over prices and blacked out every one of the channels for close to a month until they were able to negotiate a price.)
I hope the Fios thing works out because that will be a huge revenue hit for the channel and most likely impact those of use who will still have it. (for now)
Good luck and very interested to see how things progress,
J
There is another petition out there too. www.ipetitions.com/petition/savefunimation/signatures
This one has over 1700 signatures.
I sent an email to the organizers of the Otakon and they posted the pending cancellation on their facebook page.
I hope we can overturn Verizon's decision then we can work on programming challenges with funimation. Even if with its odd programming, funimation is still my favorite station and the only reason I keep verizon.
Is the AT&T u-verse available in richmond va? anyone know?
Well, I guess I could look that up.....
Save the FUN!
miko
-Sesshy
er
Sesshomaru <3
There is no petition on the link you provided.
The petition is there go to the right where it says recent, then look at the bottom
-Sesshy
er
You must have been away for some time. Peach girl hasn't been on in nearly two years, longer for fruits basket and kiddie grade.
You also have noticed the craziness that is becoming the chief complaint about funimation... The lack of a coherent programming schedule. If viewership is down, it is most likely due to this lack of a consistent schedule.
Have hope. It looks like Verizon made the decision on thier own without talking to funimation. At least it appears they were blindsided by the decision. hopefully discussions will be fruitful for all sides.
Why do we need to pay something in order to sign the petition above?
You don't have to, they are just asking for donations to keep their site going.
We're all linked together through anime... It's something we all are passionate about and even if you've never met anyone in this forum in your life you still know them... us fans are connected... When a New Yorker laughs at Tama-chan a Texan is doing the same thing... that's special and we can't let FiOS take that!!!
(For those of you who don't know who Tama-chan is, shame on you, but it's Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club... you should be watching
)
We still have time!!! We can do this ya'll...
*Ninja Skills BOTCHES :ninja:*
*You Want to Become One With Russia, Da? ^-^*
We're all linked together through anime... It's something we all are passionate about and even if you've never met anyone in this forum in your life you still know them... us fans are connected... When a New Yorker laughs at Tama-chan a Texan is doing the same thing... that's special and we can't let FiOS take that!!!
(For those of you who don't know who Tama-chan is, shame on you, but it's Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club... you should be watching
)
We still have time!!! We can do this ya'll...
*Ninja Skills BOTCHES :ninja:*