Cinema Insomnia's "Closed Captioning Drive"
More good news! This week's CI episode on KTEH will be closed-captioned, and therefore back on at Midnight in San Francisco bay area (instead of 2am) thanks to your generous donations! Keep 'em coming, CInsomniacs!*
An FCC regulation that came into effect January 1st, 2006 required that all broadcast television programs before 2:00 am in the morning must be closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Mr. Lobo completely agrees with this important new regulation and believes it is an important advance for equal access to the airwaves for the disabled. But for us to be able to more your favorite late night show into an early time, it means we must go back and caption our complete third season of Cinema Insomnia shows for air on KTEH and other local broadcast stations, a very time consuming and expensive endeavor. We would like to keep one show at 2am and add another show in a earlier time slot. This would would also draw a larger audience.
Everyone here at Cinema Insomnia put their heads together and decided to shake our tin cup at our loyal CInsomniacs for help in funding the captioning project. But not without rewards... We have decided to release a one-time-only special edition DVD, available only during the drive period. For every $20.00 of donation, you will receive the special edition DVD The Brain That Wouldn't Die including a pair of Blood-O-Vision Glasses. In addition you will a get a numbered "Certificate of Appreciation" signed by Mr. Lobo himself. This special edition DVD will be limited to 313 units... and once sold, it's gone forever. Don't miss out on this very limited offer and the chance to be part of the Cinema Insomnia show.
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FROM THE CI WEBSITE:
cinemainsomnia.com "3/31/06 Update
Zu-Zu Peddling and CC Underwriters....
Psychotronix Festival last weekend was a blast, thanks to KFJC's staff and the usual gang of all-star projectionists. Ken Patterson from KTEH was there as well as uber CInsomniacs from all over northern CA. Cinema Insomnia was moved to 2am because of new mandatory closed captioning regulation and Ken and the fans have been searching for low cost solutions. Mr. Lobo mentioned on stage that some offshore prison offers cut-rate live captioning for 250 dollars a show... and perhaps a savvy Bay Area sponsor could move the show back to midnight and make a lot of fans happy. The fans themselves stepped up to the plate when a writer from SF/SF magazine passed around his hipster doofus hat and raised the required 250 bones to do one show! A moist eyed Mr. Lobo accepted the pile of cash feeling like George Bailey from the formerly PD classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE! Rather than blowing generously donated wad to bring the show earlier one week only to have it on later the next, Mr. Lobo has put those moneys into a fund that will caption all the shows. The fans have spoken and with everyones help this new Closed Captioning Drive will be a success!"
