DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, February 8, 2012
-- Super Bowl captioned ads on smartphones and tablets?
Did we, the deaf, catch these Super Bowl captioned ads
on our smartphones and tablets? These corporations
placed their ads on TV plus mobile devices. Did
captions show up on mobile devices? And did we use
magnifying glass to read these tiny captions?
-- ESPN employs a deaf marketing person
Luke Faxon-St. Georges, a young deaf man, has a job with
the ESPN. It is a dream job for deaf professionals that
want to mix sports with marketing. His job title
is Account Executive, and his marketing territory is the
Northeast USA. He works on marketing deals with corporate
clients. Is he the only deaf person in a sports job?
No. We have deaf coaches, trainers, sports information
directors, game photographers, sports web site operators,
scoreboard operators, newspaper sports editors, etc
It is not easy for hearing and deaf to find these types
of sports jobs.
-- Which Super Bowl commercials were captioned?
There were about 70 Super Bowl commercials. All
of these commercials were captioned - except -
1&1 Internet, American Family, Cenex, Comcast Xfinity,
Dairy Queen, General Electric, Howard Stern/NBC,
Jimmy John's and Kraft Foods. No, Kraft Foods does not
own the New England Patriots (two different companies
with the same Kraft name; it is The Kraft Group
that owns the team that lost the Super Bowl).
-- The Deaf Biggest loser kicked out and invited back!
Selena Brown, a deaf participant on the Australian TV
program - On the Excess Baggage on Nine. It is a reality
TV weight loss show, same as our The Biggest Loser TV
program. She was kicked off the program because she
could not lose 11 pounds within one week. Yet, she
was asked to come back few days later, because of
some strange voting rules among these overweight
participants! On her weigh-in at her comeback, she
lost 5 pounds, making it a total of 16 pounds in
two weeks.
-- No Deaflympics in 2013??
Hungary agreed to host the 2013 Deaflympics. But Hungary
is broke, can't afford it because it is expensive. Also
Hungary is not communicating with the Deaflympics governing
group, keeing things quiet. No other nation has volunteered
to host this event. Does not look too good right now, but
we should be optimistic.
