Your
Niagara Frontier
Radio Reading Service

Giving people who are blind or have a print disability a chance to read - every day!

Your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service gives thousands of people throughout Western New York and Southern Ontario who are blind or have a print disability daily access to a variety of print publications.

Programming on your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service is provided in part through the contributions and support of the following organizations.

Contact us if your organization is interested in learning more about sponsorship and underwriting opportunities!

Now serving Rochester & the Genesee Valley!

Effective November 1, 2022, Listeners in Rochester & the Genesee Valley can download podcasts of their favorite local and national publications.  

Some of the local publications now available online include the Batavia Daily News, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, City Magazine, the Batavian, and In Good Health magazine.  In addition our national coverage includes the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Sunday NY Times.

We hope to add even more newspapers and magazines over the coming weeks!

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Support for this initiative is courtesy of Wegmans

If you or someone you know would like more information on how to access these programs, please contact us!  There are also opportunities for volunteer readers – no experience required! 

We can be reached by phone at (716) 821-5555 or by E-mail to read@nfradioreading.org

 

35 Years and counting!

On March 19, 2022 your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service celebrated its 35th Anniversary.  A lot has changed over the years – but what’s most important is what hasn’t changed: a commitment to providing  top shelf programs and services to our Listeners so that they may remain engaged and informed members of the community.

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Since 1987, your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service has broadcast more than 250,000 hours of reading material to thousands of Listeners. Long regarded as one of the nation’s finest radio reading services for the blind, your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service has compiled a track record of exemplary efficiency, productivity, and excellence.

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Improving Listener
Quality of Life

It’s almost impossible to imagine not being able to read, but there are as many as 60,000 people who are blind or have a print disability in WNY and Southern Ontario. Some of our friends & neighbors have never had the ability to read, others lost the ability due to age, accidents, or medical conditions.

Cut off from the newspapers, magazines and books that most of us take for granted, we need to find another way to share the contents of these materials.

Your Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service was founded in 1987 as a private, not-for-profit agency to provide these solutions. And our recent affiliation with WNY Independent Living gives us access and insight to the information & resources we need to fulfill our mission.

Listening devices include a tabletop radio, portable radio, tablet, laptop, smart phone and smart speakers

What Listeners want, when they want it, wherever they are.

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.

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!

If you, or someone you know, would benefit from our service, call (716) 821-5555.

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