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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.