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Radio Reading Service
In 1980, The University of Texas at El Paso Mass Communications
Department and The El Paso Lighthouse for the Blind began to
explore a collaborative effort to create the Radio Reading Program
for the region's visually impaired in our demographic region.
The service became a reality in 1985 and offers:
- A volunteer operated closed-circuit broadcasting facility
utilizing one of the
University of Texas-El Paso's low band frequency antennas
- On air 19 hours every day and accessible to the El Paso
region, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua
- Broadcasting begins at 6:00 a.m. and signs off at 1:00 a.m.
the following morning.
- At sign-on, we air the "In Touch" Radio Reading
Network that originates in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- In Touch is interrupted at 11:00 o'clock a.m. with a locally
pre-recorded English language newscast, followed at 12:00
o'clock noon with a pre-recorded Spanish language newscast.
- Local programming is limited to weekdays
- Our volunteer editors and readers select items based on
listener feedback.
- Specifically, we air articles from the El Paso and Juarez
daily newspapers, letters to the editor, local sports, TV
schedules, local commentators, obituaries and items of local
interest not otherwise readily available to the blind and
visually impaired.
- Future programming will include medical, nutritional-and
physical Fitness advice as well as consumer advocacy and other
speakers from other civic and community organizations.
Contact Us if you would like to
volunteer.
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