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.
Welcome summer with a party for a cause! Join your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service on Friday, June 26 from 6 PM to 9 PM at Creekside Banquet Facility & Grove (2669 Union Road at William Street in Cheektowaga) for Buffalo Music Hall of Fame band The Boys of Summer playing in the outdoor courtyard, dinner in a beautiful chandeliered banquet room, your first drink on us, and a basket raffle during an evening of fun to honor the amazing volunteers who produce all Radio Reading programming.
Tickets are only $50 and can be purchased by clicking here, clicking the link below, or scanning the QR code in the graphic at the right. Special thanks to New Era Cap Foundation, Tiveron Law, and Perry’s Ice Cream for sponsoring this event!
Listeners will notice a number of changes in the May-June 2026 PROGRAM SCHEDULE to better serve you. Those changes are highlighted in red on our On-Air Schedule. Please give us your feedback by leaving a voicemail at 716-821-5555 extension 5, emailing us at read@nfradioreading.org, or completing the Listener Feedback survey on this website. Click here to provide feedback.
We are excited to announce Radio Reading service has been restored to the SYRACUSE, NY region with our offering of the Post Standard newspaper weekly. The Radio Reading service in Syracuse closed during the COVID pandemic. Find the Post Standard on our Programming webpage and in our Rochester-Genesee Valley podcasts. Click here.
For the first time, our MAGAZINES are also now accessible online. Offerings include Barron’s, Consumer Reports, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Time, and many more. Find them in the major podcast services, including Apple Podcasts (including iTunes), Amazon Music, Audible, and Spotify, by searching “NFFRS” or “Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.”
Contact us if interested in learning more about sponsorship and underwriting opportunities! Click here for packages.
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. Call 716-821-5555 extension 3 if you would like more information about receiving NFRRS programming. We will even come to your residence or living facility to set you up with the listening option that best meets your needs.
Our broadcasts are transmitted over a subcarrier radio frequency, provided at no charge by Buffalo Toronto Public Media and WNED 94.5 FM, to special receivers that are loaned to listeners for free.
We also transmit over the internet through our website livestream and mobile app 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 nearly 400,000 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.
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