LOUIS BRAILLE turns 200 on VoicePrint from January 11 to January 16

• Help educate the public and raise awareness about issues faced by Canadians who have no or low sight.
• Promote your services, including your organization’s accessibility features and initiatives.
• Help VoicePrint, which also facilitates learning and independence, to provide expanded programming to the more than 5 million Canadians who are vision- and print-restricted.

VoicePrint’s Three Sponsorship Tiers:

• YOUR ORGANIZATION will be recognized at the beginning and end of each special programming segment and in all promotions leading up to and during our tribute week. Note: This special programming will be archived on our website and available for download for a minimum of three months.
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s logo and link will be placed at the top of our Louis Braille Bi-Centennial webpage at voiceprintcanada.com.
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s logo and mention of support will appear on the Louis Braille Bi-Centennial banner ad (December 1, 2008 to January 30, 2009).
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s corporate message will be aired a minimum of 28 times on VoicePrint (e.g. mission testament and website address, accessible features) during peak times in your preferred area.
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s logo will appear on all media announcements and e-newsletter notices promoting this programming.
• BONUS: YOUR ORGANIZATION’s corporate greeting will air a minimum of two times during any and all described movie/television specials in honour of our Louis Braille tribute (in addition to the beginning and end of these programming piece) – More details to come…

• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s logo and link will appear on our Louis Braille Bi-Centennial webpage at voiceprintcanada.com.
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s corporate message will be aired a minimum of 14 times on our service  (e.g. mission testament and website address, accessible features) during peak times in your preferred area.
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s logo will appear on all media announcements and e-newsletter notices promoting this programming.
• BONUS: YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s corporate greeting will air a minimum of two times during any and all described movie/television specials in honour of our Louis Braille tribute – More details to come…

• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s logo and link will appear on our Louis Braille Bi-Centennial webpage at voiceprintcanada.com.
• YOUR ORGANIZATION ‘s corporate message will be aired a minimum of seven times on our service  (e.g. mission testament and website address, accessible features) during peak times in your preferred area.

• YOUR ORGANIZATION can donate/sponsor a prize contest (worth $200 or more) during this week. In exchange VoicePrint will coordinate the contest, produce the contest promos (thanking your organization for this contribution) and post a webpage at voiceprintcanada.com with your logo and link to your website. Organizations that give a prize donation worth $300 or more will receive Tier 3 free of charge.

Limited time! Sign-up before November 1, 2008 and receive an additional seven corporate on-air messages…

Offer closes Dec. 1.

PLEASE CONTACT:

Phone: 416-422-4222 ext. 222
Toll-free: 1-800-567-6755 ext. 222
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More VoicePrint Facts:

• VoicePrint is a division of The National Broadcast Reading Service Inc. , a registered charity, Making Media Accessible
• VoicePrint serves all Canadians but particularly the more than 5 million of us who can’t access this information due to, for example, blindness or other vision restrictions, learning or physical disability, low literacy skills or just getting older.
• VoicePrint can be accessed on the Secondary Audio Program of CBC Newsworld; on Star Choice (ch 825), ExpressVu (ch 49 & 967), Look TV (ch 400); Rogers Digital (ch 196); and at voiceprintcanada.com.
• VoicePrint delivers four channels across Canada (Atlantic, Eastern, Mountain/Central and Pacific), allowing sponsors to reach specific areas and local listeners.