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Cable tv station

I have MCTV in Manhattan. Which channel will be showing Mad Man?

Posted by drshechter
July 24, 2008 11:50am

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By Clayton Neuman on July 24, 2008 1:05 PM

drshechter,

I'm having a bit of trouble pinning down your cable provider. Can you provide any more information about it? Does the provider have a website?

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By arriba on August 23, 2008 8:35 PM

re your inaccessible closed captions on Mad Men: There are at least 29 million hearing impaired Americans (according to a recent NY Times article). Of those, millions cannot read lower cased cc's, but they can read upper case closed captions. Why do you think all advertisers who advertise on tv only use upper case cc's? It's because they want to reach all tv viewers.
Since you persist in using lower case cc's, which cannot be read by millions of tv viewers, you do an unnecesssary injustice both to those you feed you (your advertisers) and to tv viewers around the U.S. Shame on you. (p.s. Hearing impaired viewers who can read the lower case closed captions can also read the upper case. Those who cannot read the smaller lower case cc's don't have the same accessibility. It would cost you nothing but good will and an increased viewer audience if you were to change the cc's to upper case. If not, you show contempt for hearing impaired tv viewers.

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By hearing-impaired on September 18, 2008 1:00 PM

Any one curious as to why the producers, execs and director of Mad Men choose to willingly disenfranchise millions of hearing impaired tv watchers - who use closed captioning - from being able to watch Mad Men? If one notices, almost all advertisers who use closed captions with their ads use upper case closed captions. Why? Upper case closed captions can be read by all tv watchers who use cc's; this includes those who can read the lower case cc's employed by less than a handful of stations (National Geographic, which should know better; the Boston PBS station, which should also know better than showing contempt for millions of viewers; and the CBS and NBC "old-time" networks.)
Those tv watchers who can read lower case cc's are able to also read upper case cc's, yet those who can't read the lower case (the writer of this entry is among the millions in this category of cc'd users) rely on and can only read the upper case.
So what do the Mad Men producers and directors - and advertisers - get from their decision to willfully and shamefully disenfranchise some millions of the 29 million hearing impaired Americans from being able to enjoy this show?

For one, the advertisers lose and then some.

If you know ANYONE at all who is hearing impaired - from mild to severely, you could do them a thoughtful and useful favo that'll take you just a minute: email some of Mad Men's advertisers and ask them why they show contempt for people who don't hear well.

Suggest start with the giant Pfizer Corp for your input on AMC and Mad Men's contempt for American tv viewers who use closed captions to enjoy watching American tv shows. Tell Ffizer they're losing millions of viewers with AMC and Mad Men's closed captioning policies...maybe the AMC and Mad Men execs will become respectful when their derision towards the hearing impaired hits them where it counts: the American paycheck.

Click this url and fill in the blanks and send it off today:
Amehttp://www.pfizer.com/contact/mail_general.jsp