Update on channel publishing backlog?

We submitted our channel for publishing on January 26th, and we're still NOT published.
So, basically: 3 months and counting.
At this point, it's safe to say that only the FCC is slower!

"heartlandpublicradio" wrote:
At this point, it's safe to say that only the FCC is slower!

Nah, i think FCC is fast but that's because they have outsourced the real work to intermediary companies (read some of the RokuCo filings). But try United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for a perspective on what glacier slow is.

Hmmm... are you guys saying the email i received yesterday is untrue?!

"billing@Roku" wrote:
... The current channel publishing queue is about two weeks long provided there are no major issues with your channel uncovered during testing.

I mean, wouldn't the Co. update the text if they are systematically behind?

"EnTerr" wrote:
Hmmm... are you guys saying the email i received yesterday is untrue?!

"billing@Roku" wrote:
... The current channel publishing queue is about two weeks long provided there are no major issues with your channel uncovered during testing.

I mean, wouldn't the Co. update the text if they are systematically behind?

*snicker*
They've been running behind since Christmas, and that's the same text that's been in the submission email for ages (at least as far back as August 2013), so I don't think that's anything to go by.

On a side note, congratulations on submitting your first public channel!

"EnTerr" wrote:
I mean, wouldn't the Co. update the text if they are systematically behind?

I suppose they feel that you know- it's possible that the 200 channels ahead of you could all have their devs drop dead whilst logged in so they could hit "cancel submission" on the way down, so why bother to go to all that trouble of updating the auto reply ?

From what I understand it's about 11-13 weeks to get approved. viewtopic.php?f=34&t=85979

I don't understand why you are not approved if you sent your in Jan!

I should be public in early June.

This may shed some light to it - apparently last week on Reddit there was a Q&A with Roku's founder/CEO Anthony Wood and someone asked teh question:

"Anthony_Wood" wrote:

"breaking_bad_gas" wrote:
As a Roku developer, the turn around time to get a channel approved is abysmal. I have waited for months for updates to get pushed thru for the simplest things.

I'll check in to it and see what we can do to improve.
I appreciate your support for Roku.

Sadly, it seems that the head honcho has/had no clue how breaking bad things have been for months on the review/publishing front.

My respects to the couple of RokuCo people that were left manning the channel levees' pumping stations - and their heroic efforts! But that's clearly not enough to cope with the content flood. Time to wake up the mayor and the village, you can't do it alone.

"EnTerr" wrote:
Sadly, it seems that the head honcho has/had no clue how breaking bad things have been for months on the review/publishing front.

Actually, he does.

"EnTerr" wrote:
Why can't they update the text though

I'll look into it. I don't see any place to change the text, so it may be buried somewhere on the back-end.

- Joel

Yeah, that interview response was just a polite response, not very informative really. I'm sure Roku "wants" to speed up the process, it's just a matter of competing priorities.

I think they are getting there stuff together! They have been kicking butt lately! They approved 47 channels in 7 days!! That puts my channel at 41!! If they keep this up I could be public in less than 2 weeks!

Keep it up guys!!

I've notice that some developers can see where they are in the queue. Is this something available to all developers? I've been waiting over a month for simple text and region changes and would love to get an idea of how much longer the wait would be.