Why do you have broken links?
We try to keep up on them, but we have hundreds of links (more than most
sites). If you see any broken links, we may not
know about them. Please email us to tell us about the link! Thanks.
Why didn't you answer my email?
We try to answer every email sent to us that isn't spam. If
you did not get an answer, then either we tried and our reply got sent back
to us (your address didn't work for some reason), or we thought it was spam
and deleted it, or we never received it. Please email us again! Also,
we get a lot of press releases and other emails, so sometimes we may miss
emails from visitors.
Why did you make this site/page?
We are very big fans of television and want to share
that knowledge and fun with the world. We are frustrated by the lack
of sites out there with good, current information and links that
work. We also just love to make web pages!
Why would anyone volunteer to
work for you?
People volunteer for various reasons, but the main one
seems to be that they share our interests and want to help us. Some
probably do it because they enjoy writing or because they have particular
talents but don't want to make their own site. Some are hoping we make
money!
Does your site make money?
Not very much, but more than it used to. The ads now pay for the
site's hosting and domain names, and some extra. Anything extra we
make gets divided up among the volunteers near the end of the year. We make
sure, regardless, that every volunteer gets an Amazon gift certificate at
the end of the year (even if we have to pay for it out of our own pockets).
Why don't you have more pictures?
We like to have original pictures whenever possible. Also, making fancy
graphics takes a lot of time and expertise.
How can I volunteer to help with your site?
Just
email
us! You might want to check out our
jobs page
to see what you want to help with. We take ANY help we can get.
I need a friend, will you email me?
We are very busy with our sites and our lives.
We will answer just about any email sent to us (not obscene ones or spam!),
but we don't have time to email or chat with random people or to email you
and say "What's up?"
Why don't you just get a business loan
to start up your company?
We have families that we don't want to risk in this venture; if we default,
they might have to pay. We prefer to get money from investors and
advertising. Most new businesses fail.
What are the advantages to
volunteering to work on your site?
We have a fun group of people here, from all ages and
all over the world. We've had volunteers in the U.S., Canada, England,
Finland, South America, Nigeria, and other places. You get credit for working on our pages
(your name appears next to your work and/or on the credit page). You
can point to it with pride. We accept just about anything on our site
that has to do with TV shows that we cover. If you don't feel like
learning to make your own web page but have some good ideas, you can
contribute and feel part ownership of this site. You are part of a
team, of a growing site which may one day be an important Internet
resource. You get presents from us at Christmas. You may get fun
email greetings and birthday wishes. If you want to learn Wordpress, HTML or Frontpage,
or how to improve your writing skills, you get a lot of assistance from us. We have a number of
experts in various computer software programs that can help you. And
we like to chat on Facebook, too. You get to post and read in our
exclusive TV MegaSite Volunteers Forum. There may be further perks in
the future.
Videotape Trading Post
Who do I contact to put a videotape trade on your list?
Please read and follow the directions on the page at http://www.tvmegasite.net/trading/lists.shtml
However, we rarely have time to update thos pages any more.
How do I trade you for something on your list?
For Suzanne, read #3 below. For anyone else's list you
find linked from our site, please contact the person whose address is
on that page.
Why have you stopped trading tapes?
I am swamped with trades, this page, and other stuff, so I am not taking new
ones right now...except for specific reasons listed on my pages.
Why won't you buy or sell tapes?
It is illegal. Please see our policy
pages. This is not open for discussion.
Why bother listing your
videos if you don't have time to trade?
Sometimes I have had time for trading. Also,
the list is for my friends and family. I trade with them sometimes, when I
have time. My whole web page (which is very large now and about much
more than my tape trading) started because I wanted a place to put my tape
list, for trading. That was back when I had more time. I also host other
people's trades for them and link to other people's tape trading pages
at
http://tvmegasite.net/trading/lists.shtml
Daytime Pages
Why are you missing or behind in your
updates or transcripts? All of our updates are done by our volunteers;
sometimes life gets in the way of updates. We replace volunteers when
we can, if they are unreliable. We don't get as many volunteers
as we used to.
Why don't you just write your own updates,
rather than asking for volunteers all the time?
That takes up a lot of time. We
would rather spend our free time working on other aspects of the page. It
takes a lot of full-time work.
Where can I find out what a particular song is that played on my soap?
Try writing to Soap Opera Digest
songs@soapoperadigest.com . They often answer questions like
this.
What is going to happen on my favorite soap?
We have no connection to the shows, so we don't know
any more than you do. We have some soap scoops on our soap pages, and
we have some soap scoops mailing lists you can
join. Otherwise, try looking for other soap scoops on the Web and
reading the soap opera magazines. Those are your best sources.
How can I contact my favorite soap star?
Each of our daytime pages has an addresses section on it where you can send
snail mail to the stars. Most of them don't have email, or if they do,
they don't share it with the general public because otherwise they would get
swamped with email.
What was the first TV
soap opera in the U.S.?
This is from "The Soap Opera Encyclopedia" by Christopher
Schemering:
"Although there had been other dramatic serials produced for local broadcast as early as 1946--such as the one-day airing of "Big Sister" on a local station in Chicago and the thirteen-part serial "War Bride" in Schenectady--the first network soap was the DuMont effort "Faraway Hill", which premiered October 2, 1946, and was broadcast simultaneously in New York and Washington, DC. By the time DuMont had produced "A Woman to Remember" (a television soap about a radio soap) and the highly successful "Captain Video" (TV's first space opera) in 1949, the network had expanded to include most of the major cities on the East Coast." It doesn't say what the first radio soap was. NBC's first soap was "These Are My Children" in 1949 created by Irna Phillips. CBS' first soap was "The First Hundred Years" in 1950. Both shows were failures. The first successful soaps were CBS' "Search for Tomorrow" and "Love of Life", followed quickly by "As the World Turns". Search started in 1951.
When are you going to update your soap links (or
other section)?
We are working on it... it is a big site and we only have so many
volunteers.
Primetime Pages
When are you finishing your TV show links?
Our
site is very large and growing, and we rely on volunteers at the present time.
We are working on the tv show links as fast as we can.
How can I contact the actors?
We have no contact with any celebrity except for the one mentioned above.
Please go to the network page to look for their mailing addresses.
Why don't you have a section for "Succession" (or
other shows we don't cover)?
Suzanne (our founder) doesn't watch it. On the primetime shows, we only have pages for shows
Suzanne watches and really like. We can't cover everything! At
least, not yet...