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 ()

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