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Re: New Yankee Workshop Series Ends

I am posting below a current statement from the NYC website that infers that the reason for the demise of the show is sponsor support--not that Abrams just burned out. Hard for me to believe that Porter Cable, Thompson-Minwax, and others couldn't afford this relatively cheap, and very visible targeted advertising.

Emails and letters to the former sponsors (underwriters) might help. I mean, why buy Porter Cable when you can buy Bosch at the same price except for PC's support of Norm?

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What's Happening at The New Yankee Workshop
Posted on 01/01/2010

Sadly, for the first time in 21 years we do not have a series of regularly scheduled TV broadcasts of New Yankee programs to offer our fans around the country. We are still trying very hard, amidst the economic downturn, to find some underwriting support to continue providing repeat programs on Public Television. Even though the programs are available to the stations at no cost, we must raise thousands of dollars to process the programs and to broadcast them on a public network. We are hopeful an underwriter can be found and we will let you know if we are successful.

posted: 12:22 pm on January 10th