Radio Reading Services in New York State

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To access these programs, listeners usually need a specially-tuned radio, which is often lent free of charge to eligible applicants. Please contact the individual reading services for more information about eligibility and programming.

Western New York

Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service
P.O. Box 575
Buffalo, NY 14225

Phone: (716) 668-8888

Area served: Western New York, Southern Ontario (Canada)
Description: The Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service broadcasts daily readings of newspapers, magazines, books and community information to blind and print-handicapped people.
URL: http://www.nfradioreading.org

WXXI Reachout Radio
280 State Street
Rochester, NY 14614

Phone: (585) 258-0333
URL: http://wxxi.org/reachout

Area served: Rochester
Description: WXXI Reachout Radio provides 24-hour-a-day readings of local and national newspapers, magazines, and books for people who are print-handicapped. The closed-circuit radio signal is accessible through a specially-tuned radio, which is provided free of charge to eligible applicants

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Central New York

Read-Out Radio Reading Service
P.O. Box 2400
Syracuse, NY 13220-2400

Phone: (315) 453-2424

Area served: Syracuse, Watertown, Utica, Binghamton, Ithaca and their environs.
Description: Read-Out, a 24-hour radio reading service, is part of WCNY-TV, Syracuse.

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Eastern New York

Northeast Radio Reading Service
59 Leonard Avenue
Plattsburgh, NY 12901

Phone: (518) 562-1954

Area served: North Country
Description: Rebroadcasts the In Touch Network programming.

RISE
C/o WMHT-FM
P.O. Box 17
Schenectady, NY 12301

Phone: (518) 357-1700
URL: http://www.wmht.org/rise/home.html

Area served: The 13-county area surrounding Albany and the Capital Region.
Description: WMHT's 24-hour radio station for blind and print disabled people in the Capital District and Hudson Valley region transmits on a subcarrier of the main WMHT-FM signal. Through a specially tuned table-top radio receiver, loaned free of charge to eligible applicants, listeners have access to readings of local and national newspapers, popular periodicals and books, as well as specialty programming.

Radio Vision - Ramapo Catskill Library System
619 North Street
Middletown, NY 10940

Phone: (914) 343-1131
or toll-free in NY state, (800) 327-7343
URL: http://www.rcls.org/depts.htm#RADIO

Area served: Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, and Putnam counties; parts of Columbia, Greene and Rockland counties.
Description: Radio Vision broadcasts bestsellers, magazines and local newspapers 24 hours a day over the subchannels of two local FM radio stations. Special receivers for the closed-channel signal are loaned without charge to print-handicapped listeners.

In Touch Networks
15 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023

Phone: (212) 769-6270
URL: http://intouchnetworks.org/

Area served: New York metropolitan/tri-state area.
Description: In Touch is a not-for-profit corporation that provides a national radio reading service, broadcasting articles from more than 100 newspapers and periodicals 24 hours a day. Listeners within a 55-mile radius of New York City can pick up the closed-circuit signal on special receivers, provided (for a fee) by In Touch. Beyond the 55-mile limit, listeners can hear the broadcasts, via two communication satellites, through their own FM receivers.

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