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Here is another link:

http://cbs4denver.com/entertainment/soaps.guiding.light.2.973272.html

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Brian Williams announced GL's cancelation on  his national news program this eve.  It's an horrible shock but not a surprise.  GL has been operating with minimal financial support for quite some time.  Perhaps some day, DVDs of its glory days will be sold.  Wouldn't it be nice if is was rerun on some cable channel?!

OMG!!!  GL has been in my family for FIVE generations.  My great grandmother and grandmother listened to it on the radio, my grandmother and mother watched it on early television.  I watched with my mother and have passed it on to my sons.  I thought you meant cancelled for basketball, not forever! I knew this day might come, but now that it's here, I'm in shock and denial. What are the stages of grief?

Here are some of the contact numbers from other boards:

Here is the contact info for TeleNext and Proctor and Gamble. They are shopping for a new home for GL. Let them know that we want GL on the air. Make sure you let CBS know how disappointed you are in their decision, as well.

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

Thanks, Meggie, for that - I signed, #664....

I blame Ellen Wheeler. 100%. She destroyed beyond repair a show with so much history, so much potential. She allowed her own personal views to direct or veto storylines, she made mistake after mistake and wouldn't ever admit she was wrong, and drove the ship directly into the iceberg, full steam ahead.

I loved her as Cindy on AMC, but I hope and pray for the sake of any other show, daytime, primetime whatever, that she is NEVER again put in a position of power - she definitely reached her level of incompetency, and now a bunch of people are out of a job because of it. 70 years of history, down the drain, just like that.

I wish the cast and crew peace and luck - they're among the best in the business and do not deserve to be unemployed.

Also, there's a FaceBook page for anyone interested: http://tinyurl.com/cchgkk

I had been having a hard time putting what I wanted to say into words, until I came across this post at the Guidinglightv site. It is from a poster named "lamplighter" & I am pasting a part of her post which most refelcts how I feel:

OK, I know I will be unpopular for saying this, but...

I think Guiding Light should end. I don't want it to end, but it should. For the past several years, the show has been in a slow decline. The quality of the show has gone down hill in many ways. Guiding Light is not the soap I remember, not the soap I grew up on. Because of the changes in the world, Guiding Light has had to adjust to the point that it's become a pale imitation of what it once was.

CBS has decided to pull the plug. That means that it's over on CBS. I don't see NBC or ABC taking on the lowest rated soap in today's troubled times. If another network, like the Soap Opera Network, bought the soap, they would have to cut the budget and that means that the remaining few beloved cast members (Reva, Josh, Olivia, Phillip, Alan, Buzz) would likely have to leave. The same goes for putting the soap on the Internet. Another budget cut would hurt the soap more than help it.

It would be awesome if CBS would keep the show, or another network would pick up the show and increase the budget, giving Guiding Light another breath of life, but that is just a dream. For years now, fans have asked for a better Guiding Light, a return to the great show of the past. Moving the soap somewhere else wouldn't make it better, it would only make it worse.