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From: Ann.Stalnaker@f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Stalnaker)
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Subject: Re: Closed-captioned Videotapes
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Date: 17 Jan 90 02:09:31 GMT
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Hi, Neal!  Hope you don't mind me butting in but I've found that more 
and more movies on videocassettes are closed captioned (at least the 
most popular ones are) and I believe they are slowly working on the 
classics.
 
I was most surprised to find out that C-Span is closed captioning a 
lot of the senate sessions as well as LifeLine and USA.  There seems 
to be a great demand for more closed captioning and not enough funds, 
however, I feel we've come a long way and like everything else, things 
don't happen overnight.
 
I wish more local stations would caption the local news.  To me, that 
is a top priority.  Even though a lot of us receive the local newspapers,
we often have to wait until the next day or receive the news second 
hand.  GRRRRRR!  That's a pet peeve of mine and I'm working on trying
to convince our local station the local news needs to be closed captioned.
We've even written letters and have thought about picketing but it's 
hard to get everyone involved.
 
Guess we can keep hoping we don't have to wait 10 more years to get 
the local stations involved.
 
-  Ann
 

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