Your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service gives thousands of people throughout Western New York and Southern Ontario who find reading a challenge 24/7 free access to dozens of local and national print publications.
News & Knowledge. On Air & Online. Accessible & Inclusive.
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It’s almost impossible to imagine not being able to read, but there are some 130,000 people who are blind or have a print disability in the Western New York-Rochester-Southern Ontario region. Some of these neighbors have never had the ability to read, while others lost the ability or access to information due to age, accidents, medical conditions, or socioeconomic barriers.
Cut off from the newspapers, magazines, and books that most of us take for granted, your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service is a way to share these materials.
Our broadcasts are transmitted over a subcarrier radio frequency, provided at no charge by Buffalo Toronto Public Radio and WNED 94.5FM, to special receivers that are loaned to registered listeners for free.
We also transmit over the Internet to computers, mobile phones, and smart speakers. Many of our programs are available on demand as podcasts – so listeners can listen to what they want, when they want, and how they want! More information about accessing our broadcasts can be found on our Programming webpage.
Since 1987, your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service has broadcast more than 300,000 hours of reading material to thousands of listeners. Long regarded as one of the nation’s finest radio reading services for the blind, we have compiled a track record of exemplary efficiency, productivity, and excellence. And our recently added affiliation with WNY Independent Living gives us access and insight to even more of the information and resources we need to fulfill our mission of accessibility and inclusiveness.
