TV EARS
TV Ears is a 10-year old manufacturer of assistive listening devices that has helped more than half a million individuals with hearing losslisten to TV better without disturbing others in the process. The doctor-recommended products were originally sold through specifichearing stores operated by audiologists, doctors of audiology and state-certified hearing specialists.
TV Ears has since expanded its offerings and distribution to include prominent wholesale and retail outlets, including Costco and RadioShack, as well as catalog, Internet and the occasional television shopping network such as QVC.
Here's a list of some of the recent press coverage we've received.
Entertainment Today
Gadget Mom – Happy Mother’s Day Gift Giving Guide
You might want to give this to your grandmother. It is a clever wireless earpiece that connects easily to your television and allows for better (or isolated) listening. The transmitter plugs into the headphone jack of the television and the lightweight earbuds rest in a charger. If your Mom enjoys exercising at home while watching TV, the noise of the elliptical or stationery bike often requires ear-piercing volumes from the TV.
Patch.com
TV Ears Broadcasts Innovation from Spring Valley
East County company finds international success with a unique hearing assistance device.
For those with hearing impairment, life presents enough daily challenges—the simple pleasure of enjoying movies and television shows at home should not be one of them. Hearing aids, while providing immense help in everyday conversation, notoriously diminish background noise (such as televisions), leaving wearers no option but to crank up the TV volume to levels obnoxious to anyone but them. Realizing a void in the market, award-winning entrepreneur George Dennis founded TV Ears, a Spring Valley-based company dedicated to improving the quality of life of the hearing impaired.
BNet
How We Erased a $5 Million Debt -- in 90 Days
I founded TV Ears, a company that creates products to help hearing-impaired people listen to television shows. The company grew quickly and I turned day-to-day management over to my staff so I could focus on business development. The trouble was that I removed myself so far from operations that I didn’t know we had a major cash flow problem until it was almost too late.
ADVANCE for Hearing Practice Management
TV Ears Hits CES with 3D Hearing Aid Kits
TV Ears, a manufacturer of doctor-recommended TV listening solutions, showcased its 3D Sound Amplifier Kit, 3D Open Fit Kit and 3D RIC Kit at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show.
The company aims to solve the three most frustrating dimensions of hearing loss: hearing television dialog, hearing on the telephone and hearing conversations in noisy environments.
Senior News
Price Breakthrough on Hearing Aids Announced, Industry Business Model Challenged
On Thursday at the Silvers Summit showcase at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, TV Ears founder and CEO George Dennis will unveil three products that he hopes will not only revolutionize the hearing-assistance industry, but will significantly lower the prices of hearing aides.
Dennis tells Selling to Seniors his new line is “going to challenge [audiologists] to reevaluate their business model.”
The Hearing Journal
LAS VEGAS—TV Ears (www.tvears.com/) introduced its first senior-friendly LCD high-definition television at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show held here in January. The-32-inch set includes a built-in wireless transmitter and headset for better listening, an easy-to-use, color-coded remote control, and an automatic shut-off feature.
Senior Housing News
On My Mind: Q&A with TV Ears Founder and CEO George Dennis
Thinking about creating a product specifically for the senior market? According to George Dennis, Founder and CEO of TV Ears, Inc., one of the keys to success in the market is solving a problem and creating a solution. Senior Housing News recently talked with the founder of TV Ears, Inc. that manufactures doctor-recommended TV listening solutions and was founded in 1998. The company has been named to 2009 Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5,000 List, 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List and George Dennis was a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Semi-Finalist.
Fox News Channel
Fox and Friends review TV Ears TV at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show!
New York Post
Must Zzz-TV: "Senior-Friendly TV shuts when you nod off"
THE first "senior-friendly" LCD high-def set will be unveiled later this week with the kind of features only someone who went to Woodstock will love.
Manufactured by TV Ears, the set includes a built-in wireless headset which cuts down on volume-blasting; a remote control with just six buttons to lessen confusion and -- perhaps most intriguing of all -- a switch that turns the set off automatically after four hours.
"One of the biggest complaints we get from seniors is that they fall asleep at night and wake up at 6 a.m. and the TV is blaring," says TV Ears founder/CEO George Dennis.
WSRadio.com
TV Ears Featured on Computer and Technology radio program.
Hearing Review
TV Ears Named to Inc. 5,000 List
The company is ranked 1,343 after achieving more than 237 percent growth in 2005.
BizSanDiego.com
By George Dennis
There’s been an understandable increase in companies of all shapes and sizes changing their go-to-market strategies in the hopes of surviving the current economic environment while setting themselves up for success when times get better.For some business owners, this represents a brave new world, but it’s one with which entrepreneurs are all too familiar.
San Diego Business Journal
Listen Up - Television Audio Devices Plug Into Growing Market
By Ned Randolph
TV Ears, a maker of assisted listening devices for televisions, is on a roll.
The company has increased revenues exponentially over the past five years with an aggressive marketing campaign to tap the growingmarket of TV-watching baby boomers reaching their twilight years.
NBC San Diego
See TV Ears interview/Story on KNSD-TV's News at 4 program.
Detroit Free Press
Detroit-area Cruz Hearing expects to grow to serve seniors
Its primary services are hearing tests and fitting people with hearing aids. It also sells a few amplification products like TVEars, a devicethat lets a person listen to a TV at a higher volume without distracting neighbors or other household residents.
BizSanDiego
Q & A with George Dennis, CEO of TV Ears
Through technology and dedication, TV Ears has made it possible for the hearing impaired and their loved ones to co-exist harmoniously.This week, bizSanDiego was able to catch up with TV Ears CEO George Dennis, who gave some insight on the company behind the Ears.
Verdugo Monthly (L.A.)
The A-List
Where have these been all my life! If you or someone you know has trouble hearing the television, they no longer need to blast the earsoff the rest of their family to hear. TV Ears (starting at $99) amplifies the sound for those with slight hearing loss. I am definitely getting apair to have on hand next time my mother-in-law comes to visit. The last time she was here, after I went to bed, she watched the movieThe Changeling (the one about a house haunted by a murdered ghost kid and quite possibly the scariest movie of all time). She had the television so loud I felt like I was in bed with George C. Scott.
