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News and Press Releases
VoicePrint Celebrates 11th Anniversary as Broadcaster for Vision and Other Print-Restricted Canadians
Annual General Meeting to Coincide With Milestone
TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2001 - VoicePrint, the audio
version of daily news and current-affairs information packaged for the
vision and print-restricted communities, celebrates its 11th anniversary
on December 1, 2001. To toast the milestone, alumni of volunteer readers
with a history of 10 and five years of service with the media charity
will read the daily news throughout the anniversary day and all volunteers
have been invited to celebrate VoicePrint's achievements at the November
30th annual general meeting.
Since 1990, more than 600 volunteers a year have read full-text articles
and current stories published by Canadian and international newspaper
and magazines for VoicePrint. Past volunteers included CBC's Peter Mansbridge,
Global News' Bev Thompson, CFRB's Connie Sinclair and CFTO's Pat Foran
and Carol Charles.
At NBRS' annual general meeting (Friday, November 30, 2001 at 7:00 p.m.
at the York Reception Centre, 1100 Millwood Road) volunteers and community
members will hear about and be able to celebrate its initiatives during
the last year. To RSVP attendance for Friday, November 30, 2001, please
call Jerry Bagelman at (416) 422-4222, extension 233.
NBRS is a national-non share corporation dedicated to enhancing media
accessibility by providing access to printed news and information as well
as movie and television entertainment for 3.2 million vision and print-restricted
Canadians through VoicePrint, a licensed audio 24-hour news-and-information
audio service, and AudioVision Canada, the pre-eminent Canadian description-service
giving vision-restricted viewers enhanced and independent access to television
and movies.
In the Greater Toronto Area, VoicePrint broadcasts can be heard on the
S.A.P. of CBC Newsworld and on Look TV's channel 100 (audio 2). It is
also carried on Star Choice's channel 825 and Express Vu's channel 967.
Media contact only:
Shannon Bowness Manager,
Communications and Marketing,
NBRS 416-422-4222 or
sbowness@nbrscanada.com
