Narrative Television Networks to Provide Entertainment for OcuSource.com’s Virtual Conference for the Blind and Partially Sighted.
OcuSource.com, the vision impairment industry portal, announced today that Narrative Television Networks (NTN), founded by blind entrepreneur Jim Stovall, will supply pre and post event entertainment to the OcuSource Expo. The expo is a virtual conference providing information on services and products for consumers who are blind or have low vision, as well as the service providers within the industry. The expo begins June 8th and is located at www.ocusource.com.
(PRWEB) May 31, 2005 -- OcuSource.com, the vision impairment industry portal,
announced today that Narrative Television Networks (NTN), founded by blind
entrepreneur Jim Stovall, will supply pre and post event entertainment to the
OcuSource Expo. The expo is a virtual conference providing information on
services and products for consumers who are blind or have low vision, as well as
the service providers within the industry. The expo begins June 8th and is
located at www.ocusource.com.
“We’re delighted to supply the
online entertainment to such a wonderful event,” stated Stovall, “We’re
collaborating with the OcuSource team to provide a unique and entertaining
online experience for the visitors to the Expo,” Stovall affirmed. Stovall’s
career history could easily be a good topic for a movie: A national champion
Olympic weightlifter, a successful investment broker, author, and entrepreneur.
He is Co-Founder and President of the Narrative Television Network (NTN), which
makes movies and television accessible for our nation's 13 million blind and
visually impaired people and their families. NTN has grown to include over 1,200
cable systems and broadcast stations, reaching over 35 million homes in the
United States, and NTN is shown in 11 foreign countries.
“Those of us who
attend “physical location” conferences know that there is usually some form of
entertainment in the evenings after a busy day of conventioning is over,“
described Dr. Lou Lipschultz, founder and CEO of the OcuSource.com portal for
the blindness industry. “Thanks to Jim’s generosity, and some fancy footwork by
our development team, now we’re able to even bring the entertainment directly to
the homes of the attendees via the internet,” stated Lipschultz.
Lipschultz created the virtual conference so that those individuals
involved with vision loss can share in the resources found at major industry
conferences. The online “conference center” has easy-to-navigate “presentation
halls” and “exhibit halls” which allow the visitor to find his or her way to the
topic of interest. Presentations are completed in tcConference web-conference
rooms, which are supplied by OcuSource’s venture partner, Talking Communities.
Presentation topics include macular degeneration, living with vision loss,
employment, education of the visually impaired, and presentations for vision
care professionals. Exhibit halls are filled with “booths” staffed by
manufacturers, vendors, agencies, organizations, and other entities eager to
share information about their services and products. Visitors who are unable to
attend the live portion of the conference can still experience all the benefits
through archived streaming videos of the presentations available for 14 days
after the close of the live portion of the event.
The Expo is now open
for pre-registration at www.ocusource.com .
About Narrative Television Networks
(NTN)
One day while listening to a video of one of his favorite classic
movies, Stovall became frustrated when he could not follow the story by only
hearing the dialogue and sound effects. He realized that as a blind person there
were many visual elements of the story that he missed, and he thought if he was
frustrated by it, maybe other visually impaired individuals were as well. Jim
and a colleague began to develop a plan to make programs accessible to visually
impaired people by adding the voice of a narrator describing the visual elements
of the story. The rest is history. NTN has become one of the fastest-growing
networks ever. It has over 1,200 broadcast and cable affiliates, reaching 25
million homes in the U. S., and NTN is shown in eleven foreign countries. NTN
has received national and international publicity, including features in The
Wall Street Journal, "TV Guide," "Time Magazine," Variety," "Woman’s Day," and
scores of other publications. NTN has been highlighted on CNN, "Good Morning
America," and many other national TV and radio shows.
About
OcuSource
California-based OcuSource.com, LLC is the owner and operator of www.ocusource.com , an
internet portal dedicated to assisting the low vision and blindness industry
with essential online resources. OcuSource’s mission is to enhance access to
products, information, and services to individuals with vision impairment, as
well as the professionals who assist them, through a set of integrated web-based
resources. OcuSource provides vision impairment-specific resources such as
auctions of adaptive products and accessories, search tools to find local and
national resources like doctors and agencies, as well as other tools useful to
eye care and rehabilitation professionals. The privately held company was
founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Placentia, California.
Contact
information:
Louis Lipschultz, OD
President & CEO – OcuSource.com,
LLC
Email: e-mail protected from spam bots
Website: www.ocusource.com
Phone:
888-299-6657 ext 701
Jim Stovall
President -
Narrative Television Network
Email: e-mail protected from spam
bots
Website: www.narrativetv.com
Phone: (918) 627-1000
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