NTN Facts
NTN makes television, home videos and movies accessible for our nation's 13 million blind and visually impaired people and their families.
NTN unobtrusively adds the voice of a narrator to the existing programming sound track, without interfering with any of the original audio or video.
NTN launched in 1988, and has grown to include over 1,200 broadcast and cable affiliates, reaching 25 million homes in North America.
NTN has received an EMMY Award, a MEDIA ACCESS Award from the television and movie industry, an INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO Award, and a GOLDEN GEORGI, which is the top script-writing honor from The Writers Foundation of America.
NTN was designed to open the world of television to 13 million blind and visually impaired Americans and their families. However, 60% of NTN's audience is made up of fully sighted people who simply enjoy the programming.
NTN programming consists of a talk/interview show, followed by a narrated movie. Guests who have appeared on NTN include Katharine Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Helen Hayes, Eddie Albert and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., among many other of Hollywood's biggest stars.
NTN is available throughout the United States on Nostalgia Television and Kaleidoscope Television and throughout Canada on the Family Channel. NTN is also carried on many independent broadcast and cable affiliates, as well as in Mexico, the Caribbean, Venezuela and New Zealand.
NTN is available throughout North America via its unscrambled satellite signal on Hughes G-1, Transponder 22, in addition to its broadcast and cable affiliates.
NTN programming is available seven days a week, and provides over 20 hours of accessible programming each week.
NTN has enjoyed positive publicity, including features on CNN, Good Morning America, and in TV Guide.
NTN programming has attracted significant advertisers, including K-Mart, Sears and AT&T, among many others.
NTN requires no special equipment and is a part of regular broadcast programming or basic cable in most parts of North America.
NTN also makes live theatre and other special events accessible, via a wireless receiver, for the blind and visually impaired community, such as "The Phantom of the Opera" and the Tony Award-winning Broadway show, "The Will Rogers Follies."
NTN offers a free Program Guide to anyone who writes requesting one from the Network.
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