P.O. Box 575, Buffalo, New York 14225 * (716) 821-5555 * fax 821-0032
Giving the Blind a Chance to Read...
Radio Reading Studios: 1199 Harlem Road
Celebrating Two Decades of Radio Readings to the Blind!
WNED TO PROVIDE BROADCAST OUTLET TO
NIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE FOR $1 PER YEAR
Agency Serving Sight-Impaired To Save Nearly $30,000 Annually With Landmark Agreement
Beginning February 29, 2008, WNED will provide WNED-FM’s analog
sub-channel to the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service (NFRRS) for
use as their new main broadcast outlet at the cost of $1.00 annually.
Savings to the service, which has provided daily access of printed
matter to thousands of area blind and print-handicapped persons since
1987, will be nearly $30,000 per year in leasing fees.
On March 3, WNED staff, including on-air personalities,
volunteered to read excerpts from magazines for “WNED Day at the
Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.” Marking the official
start of the new partnership, this “Opening Day”
included a symbolic “ribbon cutting,” when officials from
both WNED and the NFRRS turned on radios tuned to the new
broadcast signal.
WNED-FM’s super-power (105,000 watt) signal will disseminate this
valuable service to all of Western New York and Southern
Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula from its transmitter site in Boston,
New York for the exclusive use of NFRRS listeners through special radio
receivers. Volunteers share daily readings of newspapers, magazines,
books, and other vital community information.
“This is one of the biggest developments in Radio Reading’s
history,” said NFRRS President Robert Sikorski.
“WNED’s provision of its subcarrier signal for local Radio
Reading has demonstrated yet again the exemplary way our public
broadcasting association cares about this community.”
“Our airwaves are entrusted to us and we are constantly seeking
ways to make them meaningful community assets,” said WNED
President & CEO Donald K. Boswell. “WNED is exceedingly proud
of this partnership and the opportunities it will yield for this
remarkable agency that ‘gives the blind a chance to read.’
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Through WNED-TV, ThinkBright TV, Classical 94.5/WNED-FM and WNED-AM 970
The Information Station, the member-supported Western New York Public
Broadcasting Association provides high quality programming and services
that enlighten, inspire, entertain and educate our communities.
For more information, please visit www.wned.org. For more information
on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service including Radio
Reading’s broadcast schedule and details on obtaining the service
or becoming a Radio Reading volunteer, call the NFRRS at 821-5555 or
visit www.nfradioreading.com.
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