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News and Press Releases
CBC and VoicePrint Broadcasts Trudeau Described for
Vancouver's Vision-impaired Community
First Described Programming Outside of Toronto
TORONTO, Mar. 28, 2002 - CBC English Television and VoicePrint
will work together to distribute a version of the highly anticipated four-hour
dramatic series, Trudeau, accessible to blind and vision-impaired Canadians.
The soundtrack of the described mini series will be broadcasted simultaneously
on the Second Audio Program (S.A.P) of CBC and on the VoicePrint broadcast
network on Sunday, March 31 and Monday, April 1 at 8 p.m. (local time)
in Vancouver as well as in Toronto.
This marks the first time a Canadian television network
will broadcast a described version of a television mini-series outside
of the greater Toronto area. In Vancouver, the described version will
be carried using the S.A.P. component of CBUT-TV's transmission. In Toronto
and southwestern Ontario, the signal can be picked up through CBLT-TV.
In addition, the described version of Trudeau can be
heard in 6.4 million homes throughout Canada on the VoicePrint network
on cable through the S.A.P. of CBC Newsworld, on Star Choice channel 825,
on Express Vu channel 967, on Look TV channel 100 (audio 2) and live on
the Internet at www.voiceprint.ca.
VoicePrint is a division of The National Broadcast Reading
Service Inc. (NBRS): a non-share corporation dedicated to enhancing access
to printed news and information for 3.2 million vision- and print-restricted
Canadians. Licensed by the CRTC, the round-the-clock service provides
an audio version of newspaper and magazine stories, features and editorials.
AudioVision Canada, a second division of NBRS, is the pre-eminent Canadian
producer of description products that allow vision-restricted viewers
enhanced and independent access to television and movies.
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