X-Message-Number: 5710 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 17:25:37 From: Steve Bridge <> Subject: Cryonics after the Super Bowl To CryoNet >From Steve Bridge, Alcor February 5, 1996 In reply to: Message #5704 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 16:29:50 MST From: Richard Schroeppel" <> Subject: tv coverage; fast freeze >Did anyone see the cryonics segment on NBC TV a few hours after the >Superbowl? I happened to catch the tail end. They showed a big dewar >being lowered into place, and the winch setting stuck. The tone of the >narrator was positive, friendly, serious, etc. We didn't make a big announcement on that segment because it was not a national program. It was produced by Channel 12 in Phoenix for their local news magazine "Inside Arizona," and was also shown on Channel 4 in Tucson where Richard apparently is. The segment included interviews with Bob and Mae Ettinger of Cryonics Institute and myself, and included comments from Alcor members/volunteers Rhonda Iacuzzo, Judy and Mark Muhlestein, and their son Blaine. It also included some material from the Stanley Penksa suspension. The piece was generally well-done and positive and, at 12 minutes, the longest piece on the show. This is an unusually long length for a local news piece, but the producer said they had so much interesting material and the story dealt with such important issues of life and death, that they had to do a long piece. Fortunately for us (at least, I hope this will turn out to be fortunate), this show was watched in somewhere around 40% of the homes in the Phoenix metro area. This was the highest rated SuperBowl in 18 years (and played here in Arizona, so local interest was high); the "Friends" episode following was the highest-rated episode of any TV comedy series since the final episode of M*A*S*H*; and most people stayed with the NBC channel in Phoenix right through "Inside Arizona" and the local news. And since it is common knowledge that humans are completely controlled by what they see on television, I anticipate an Arizona cryonics swelling of unprecedented proportions over the next 11 months. (a very wry :-) for you all). Stephen Bridge, President () Alcor Life Extension Foundation Non-profit cryonic suspension services since 1972. 7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916 Phone (602) 922-9013 (800) 367-2228 FAX (602) 922-9027 for general requests http://www.webcom.com/~alcor Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5710