Volunteers are perhaps the Radio Reading Service’s strongest asset. More than 120 active volunteers regularly lend their voices to words so that our listeners can get the same benefits from reading as everyone else.
The typical volunteer uses less than 90 minutes to record a 60-minute program. Our volunteers (and listeners) enjoy a great variety of local and national magazines, newspapers, books and other publications. Favorites include New York Times Best Selling Books, daily live readings of the Buffalo News and USA Today, and even the ads from the Sunday paper!
We read the Buffalo News live six mornings a week and USA Today at Noon five days a week. Other materials recorded and broadcast include Buffalo Business First, the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, local daily & weekly newspapers like the Niagara Gazette, the Dunkirk Observer and the Bee Newspapers, popular books, magazines and other feature publications.
We provide the reading material if you don’t already have it. While most recording is done at our broadcast studio at 1199 Harlem Road, north of Clinton, in Cheektowaga, some volunteers with the technical capacity or interest can also record from home! We’re open six days-a-week, and there’s no minimum or required amount of time you have to give.
Not all our volunteers are radio readers. Supporters also serve on our Advisory Council, help with administrative activities, run special events and fundraisers, staff outreach tables at local events to reach more listeners, and even help with our landscaping!
Our family of more than 300 volunteers is always looking to add more!