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News from the National Captioning Institute, Inc.

May 28, 2008

NCI Partners with Public Television Networks, Program Producers and Cable Networks to Describe a Wide Range of Programming

Descriptions Made Possible by Funding From the U.S. Department of Education

NCI Described Video, which is also known as audio description, video description or DVI (Descriptive Video Information), provides access to television programming for people who are blind or have low vision, an estimated Amerian audience of about 12 to 14 million. Through a detailed processs that provides concise yet vivid descriptions of a program's visual elements during pauses in the dialogue, NCI Described Video helps people who are visually impaired to "paint a picture" in their minds of those images that others take for granted. The visual is made verbal.

Descriptions can be heard through the Secondary Audio Programming (SAP) option on the Multi-channel Television Sound (MTS) feature on most newer televisions and usuallly accessed through the remote control. Check your local listings to see if the following programs are available in your area with descriptions.

New Public Television – Regularly Scheduled Series
Gary Spetz's Painting Wild Places with Watercolors
Scheewe Art Workshop
Wyland's Art Studio
The Zula Patrol

Previously Listed Public Television – Regularly Scheduled Series
0 to 5 in 30 Minutes
Christina Cooks
Classical Stretch
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford’s Puppy Days
Creative Living with Sheryl Borden
Dragon Tales
Everyday Food
Focus Asia
For Your Home
Glass with Vicki Payne
Globe Trekker
Health Sense
Keeping Kids Healthy
Maya and Miguel
The Native Report
One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry
Paint, Paper and Crafts
Painting the West with Fred Oldfield
Plaza Sesamo
Plein Air: Painting the American Landscape
Reading Rainbow
Ribert and Robert's WonderWorld
Secrets of the Dead
SeeMore's Playhouse
Sesame Street
Venture North
The Woodwright's Shop
Word Girl
Your Brush with Nature
Zonya's Health Bites

New Public Television – Specials & Limited Duration Series
Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits
Carrier (summer 2008)
Chocolate Alchemy
Cotswolds: England's Spiritual Home
Earth Factor Asia
Eroica
Flying with Eagles
GardenStory
Gates of the Arctic
Guarding the Queen
High Clouds Railway to Tibet
Journey Out of Silence: The Heather Whitestone Story
The Last Ghost of War
Mt. Fuji: A Visual Poem
Quest
Scheewe Art Workshop
Spain...on the Road Again (fall 2008)
Talking through Walls
Voyages of Discovery
Whales of Atlantis
Windsors, the Royal Dynasty
The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow
Zora's Roots

Previously Listed Public Television – Specials & Limited Duration Series
Accidents in Space
Addo's Elephants
America at a Crossroads
Arctic Bound
The Buchenwald Ball Character Studies
Churchill's Girl
Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
Cousins
Crown Princess Martha
Curious
The Day We Learned to Think
Dolphins: The Code Breaker
Gateway Arch: A Relection of America
Ghosts of the Baltic Sea
God on the Brain
Gorillas: On the Trail of King Kong
The Human Face
Horatio’s Drive
Humpback Whale
The Jewish Americans
Joe Louis: The Boxer Who Beat Hitler
Journey Out of Silence: The Heather Whitestone Story
Lancaster at War
Lion Man
Looking for an Icon
Monarchy with David Starkey
Mozart: Looking for Traces
The Mysterious Human Heart
Normandie: A Legendary Liner
Oceanos
The People's Palace
Queen Victoria: Secrets of a Queen
Reporting America at War
The Supreme Court
Terry Sanford & the New South
Tom Kean: The Politics of Possibility
Travels with a Tangerine
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Visionaries
Wanderers of the Deep
The War in Iraq - Through Photographer's Eyes
Warplane
Weapons of World War II
Windsors, The Royal Dynasty With All Deliberate Speed
World Class Trains
WWII: The Complete History

ESPN
SportsFigures

Nickelodeon
Ned’s School Survival Guide

Noggin/The N
64 Zoo Lane
A Walk in Your Shoes
Franklin
Jack's Big Music Show
Little Bear
Miffy and Friends
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
O’Grady
Tiny Planets

Ovation
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Christo in Paris
Donald Judd's Marfa Texas
Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait
Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Music
Rothko's Rooms
Art & the City
The Genius of Photography
Maxim Vengerov: Living the Dream
Maxim Vengerov: Masterclass
Elliot Carter: Labyrinth of Time
Benjamin Zander: Living on One Buttock
Mad About Monet
The Phil
Hilary Hahn
Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz
Music By...Gabriel Yared
Aida's Brothers and Sisters
Paris: City of Dreams
The Lost Frescoes
Discovering Masterpieces
Kodo: Live at the Acropolis
Robert Rauschenberg: Man a Work
Dragon Songs: Lang Lang in China
Dragon Songs: Lang Lang Play Melodies from China
Toulouse-Lautrec
I. M. Pei: The Museum on the Mountain
Chaliapin: The Enchanter
Maria Callas: A Big Destiny
Daniel Libeskind: The Making of an Architect
Better By Design
Knowledge is the Beginning
Matisse and Picasso

Syndicated Series
Liberty's Kids

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Editor’s note: The programs listed above are described by NCI using funding from the U.S. Department of Education. From October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2008, funding of $3.1 million from three grants awarded to NCI by the U.S. Department of Education is available to pay 100% of the cost of describing these programs and other new programming. Closed captioning and post-production costs are paid for by the networks and producers.

For More Information:

Contact: Jay Feinberg

703-917-7600 (V/TTY)

703-917-9853 (FAX)

jfeinberg@ncicap.org

 

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