From: Lindel
Date: Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Subject: Question
To: Bruce

Hello Bruce,

Do you still do the shows? Thanks.

Lindel

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Bruce wrote:

Well, a voice from 2006! Wow!

Hi Lindel -

How did you find that email (from 2006!) and what is going on in your life in North Carolina? Excuse my possible lapse in memory, but do we also have a Wofford connection? That was my alma mater in 1969.

Hattie and I stopped our weekly, active productions in 2008. The show cleared on many stations in the USA until 2011. Three years... that is when the rights to air the show ran out for all PBS stations. In 2012 KVCR-TV in San Bernardino was the last station we know that re-aired selected episodes with our permission.

It is not totally over! Our working business model is here:

USA: http://www.zhutou.net.cn/page1203.html

Global: http://www.zhutou.net.cn/page906.html

Those models were initiated when we began in 1994 and extended globally when the Voice of America-TV began broadcasting the show. It aired in China to millions each week. In Dubai it was twice daily on their business channel for two years. The show aired in most countries of the world.

I thought in 2008 that we were not executing well on the extension of both models because we were too active with week-to-week productions. Today, I would have to guess that both models are not easy or it would have been done... but I am not giving up!

-Bruce

PS Here is what drives us even today:

http://www.zhutou.net.cn/page18.html