Volunteer Readers
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The Radio Reading Service of the Public Broadcast Center provides a service to people in the community who are unable to use printed materials due to visual impairment or physical disability. Funded by the Florida Department of Education, the service employs community volunteers to read local newspapers, magazines and other printed material over a special radio station.
Some of the local publications you can hear are The Tallahassee Democrat, The Wakulla News, The Gadsden County Times, The Perry News-Herald and the Franklin Chronicle. From the In-Touch Network, a national reading service, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron's, Parents Magazine, Ebony and many others. A complete program schedule in both text and MP3 is available on this website.
If you can pick up a radio signal, you can hear the Radio Reading Service. The Radio Reading Service can be received by sub-channel radios that are loaned free to qualifying individuals.
Anyone with a visual impairment or physical disability that makes reading difficult is eligible to receive this service. Certification of the impairment or disability is required either through the Talking Books Library, the Division of Blind Services, a doctor or nurse, or from a staff member of a health or social service agency.
Volunteers are the backbone of the Radio Reading Service. After passing an audition, volunteers are trained on reading studio equipment and assigned a scheduled time to read. These volunteers generously donate about three hours each week to reading on the air.
For more information on receiving the Radio Reading Service or becoming a volunteer, please call (800) 829-8809, ext 366.
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