WATD FM SCA ... Reading For The Blind/ T.I.C.

[Deleted User]

https://boston.cbslocal.com/video/4...dio-station-helps-visually-impaired-audience/

 

[TheBigA]

This isn't unique to Massachusetts. I've been aware of services like this in other states. Seems to be there's a national association that oversees such operations. There are volunteer announcers who read newspapers and other things for the blind. It's been on SCA for a long time, but I think some stations lease out their HD2s for the same thing.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

It's not on any HD subchannels in the Boston area, but some college stations including WUML at U. Mass. Lowell and WDJM at Framingham State University put it on their regular FM signals at times when they don't have their own locally produced programming.

 

[raccoonradio]

WZIP 88.1 at Univ of Akron had it or still does.There actually was a bingo parlor or something that financed it.

 

[MarcB]

Here in Connecticut we have C.R.I.S. Radio. It's not available on any traditional OTA radio stations. You need to have a special receiver. In the past it was also on the SAP Channel of several different TV stations over the years.
https://crisradio.org/

 

[CTListener]

Who transmits the CRIS programming, Marc? Is it on SCA via FM radio, and if so, via which station(s)?

 

[K6JHU]

WRRS in Pittsfield, MA. LPFM. Last time was there, they were reading the 'Stop-n-Shop' ad.

Spent 500 hours at RFB&D recording textbooks, way back when. Had at least an audience of one since it was recorded to order