Save The Guiding Light!

Guiding Light is coming to an end

From Daytime Confidential

Telenext Media’s Vice-President Brian T. Cahill has released a statement confirming Guiding Light’’s post-CBS
options have dried up.

When GUIDING LIGHT was cancelled by CBS in April, we promised our fans we would do everything we could to find a new home for the show. In the ensuing months, we have engaged in serious discussions with many networks, leaving no stone unturned in our effort to place the show elsewhere. Unfortunately, despite the urgent and dedicated efforts of many people, we have not been able to secure an outlet to carry the show moving forward.

We are extremely disappointed with this outcome, but we are confident we have exhausted every possible option. While it’s hard to imagine GUIDING LIGHT coming to an end, we’re so very proud of the amazing feat the show has accomplished with an unprecedented 72 years on radio and television. The show has made an indelible mark on broadcast history that likely will never be repeated. We’d like to thank all the members of the cast and crew who have brought Springfield to life for the past seven decades.

The good news is we have some powerful stories planned during the show’s remaining months that will celebrate the show’s rich history. We continue to appreciate our fans around the world and are grateful for their unwavering support of the show. We hope our viewers will continue to tune in to be entertained and touched by the drama, the love and the family that is GUIDING LIGHT.

Sad news indeed. I know we were all hoping that Guiding Light could find a home elsewhere but that does not look like it will be happening. The last episode is set to air in September.

Save The Light Rally -May 22-

Click here for more on the Rally.

Lifetime Guiding Light Group

There is a group set up at Lifetime. There have been reports that Lifetime may be interested in picking up Guiding Light. Join the group and remember to let Lifetime know what you think.

Contact info & other info -Updated 4/16-

First off The Petition
And Another Petition

By Phone

CBS Direct to person – 212-975-4321
CBS Audience Services – 212-975-3247
P&G – 513-983-1100
Telenext Media – 212-474-5888
CBS-LA (Les Moonves): 213-852-2345
Register your support by calling the GL Hotline! 1-866-695-1859
Alan Locher @ Telenext – 212-474-5815

Snail Mail

Leslie Moonves, President
CBS TV
7800 beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Executive Producer
Ellen Wheeler
C/O Guiding Light
CBS-TV
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019

Head writers
Jill Lorie Hurst
C/O Guiding Light
CBS-TV
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019

Meredith Eden Ring, Publicity Coordinator
Guiding Light
Televest Daytime
World Wide Plaza
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Nancy Tellem, President
CBS Entertainment
7800 beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Richard Mensing, Jr., Vice President
CBS Daytime
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019

Barbara Bloom, Sr. Vice President
CBS Daytime
7800 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Greg Ross
Vice President, Media and Programming
Procter & Gamble
One Procter & Gamble Plaza
PO Box 599
Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-0599

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

Alan Lafley
CEO, Proctor and Gamble
1 P&G Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45201

The Procter & Gamble Company
1 or 2, Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45201

Guiding Light c/o CBS-TV
51 West 52nd Street,
New York, NY 10019

E-Mail

Barbara Bloom – Barbara.Bloom@cbs.com

Nancy Tellem – nancy.tellem@cbs.com

Nina Tassler – n.tassler@cbs.com and/or nina.tassler@cbs.com

Procter & Gamble – comments.im@pg.com

CBS Audience Services – audsvcs@cbs.com

Telenext – newbusiness@telenextmedia.com

Alan Locher – alan.locher@telenextmedia.com

Other

CBS Feedback Form

Procter & Gamble Consumer Support

Telenext Media Contact

And also contact your Local CBS Affiliate

New Home Ideas

SoapNet

SOAPnet, LLC
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-6078
CA Tel. 818-560-1000
Fax 818-560-1930

SVP Daytime and SOAPnet Sales: Heidi Lobel

SVP ABC Media Production and SVP Alternative Programming and Development, SOAPnet: Ann Lewis Roberts

President Daytime, Disney ABC Television: Brian S. Frons

Want to give feedback about programming on SOAPnet? Call us at: 818-460-7477

Got questions about SOAPnet.com?
Email us at: help@soapnet.com

LIFETIME

mylifetime.com

NEW YORK (Headquarters) – Please send postcards only!
World Wide Plaza
309 West 49th Street
New York, New York 10019
tel: (212) 424-7000

NEW YORK (Studios)
111 8th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
tel: (212) 641-3000

LOS ANGELES
2049 Century Park East
Suite 840
Los Angeles, CA 90067
tel: (310) 556-7500

CHICAGO
444 North Michigan Ave.
Suite 3270
Chicago, IL 60611
tel: (312) 464-1991

(212) 424-7293
(212) 424-7122 (Viewer Relations)
viewerrelations@lifetimetv.com

Thanks to Keep The Light Shining and Soap Central’s Guiding Light Forum for the updated info. Save Guiding Light!

Petition reaches 11k signatures & Good news from Daytime Confidential

I am happy to announce that the petition has reached over 11,000 signatures. Please keep calling and writing to keep Guiding Light on the air.

Also, Daytime Confidential is reporting that Guiding Light is not canceling their Peapack lease.

Another good sign that Procter and Gamble Productions and TeleNext plan to make good on their promise to explore all options in finding a new home for Guiding Light came to, well, light today.

According to a Central New Jersey website, the mayor is telling his townsfolk GL isn’t leaving Peapack yet.

Borough Mayor William Horton said he met with representatives of Guiding Light team Tuesday morning, and was told the show won’t be canceling its 2009 lease with the borough to film at municipal locations all over town and to maintain a home base at a borough facility.

“My impression was that they’re very hopeful another station will pick up the show,” Horton said Tuesday afternoon.”

This news is very hopeful. There have been rumors that Lifetime Television is interested in Guiding Light. Write to them and let them know what you think!

Save Guiding Light!

Forum

Check out the forum HERE

Could SoapNet be a new home for Guiding Light?

Let them know what you think.

SOAPnet, LLC
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-6078
CA Tel. 818-560-1000
Fax 818-560-1930

Continue reading Could SoapNet be a new home for Guiding Light?…

Forum & Thanks -updated-

Yes we have a forum now.

Continue reading Forum & Thanks -updated-…

Welcome to Save the Guiding Light!

Earlier today it was announced through many sources that our beloved Guiding Light would cease to be come September 18th. We here at STGL do not want to see this happen. Our main goal (or hope) is to keep this wonderful soap opera on the air. Some of us been there since the beginning, others just a few years or even months…. We all have one thing in common though, Our love for Guiding Light. Together maybe, just maybe we can appeal to CBS and P&G to keep it on the air.

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