METROWEST RADIO
READING SERVICE (MRRS)
Broadcast
Guide
General
Information
The MetroWest Radio Reading
Service (MRRS) is the local
affiliate of the Massachusetts
Reading Network (Talking
Information Center) and is a
program of the Disability
Services Office at Framingham
State College. The Talking
Information Center is based in
Marshfield, Massachusetts.
This Service recruits
volunteers to read local
newspapers, books, magazines,
etc. It is provided for people
with disabilities (blind, and
visually impaired, or with
physical disabilities) who
have difficulties with reading
and/or holding print
materials.
The mission of the MRRS at
Framingham State College is as
follows: to make a wide
variety of print material
accessible to individuals with
disabilities; to be a
cross-disability information
service; to provide community
programming to residents in
the MetroWest area; and to
enable students at Framingham
State College to learn about
disability issues while
getting involved in community
service.
MRRS was inaugurated on June
20, 1995, and began
broadcasting on July 10, 1995.
We recruit our volunteers from
the MetroWest area and are
always in need of more
volunteers.
Some of the local newspapers
we feature include The Metro
West Daily News (seven days a
week), The Natick Bulletin &
Tab, The Sudbury Town Crier
and Tab, The Wayland Town
Crier and Tab, and Unity First
(a newspaper from the minority
community). In addition to
offering The MetroWest Daily
News, we broadcast many of the
special supplements such as
Metro West Classroom,
Employment, Food and Dining,
and Metro West Business
Journal, just to name a few.
WDJM, 91.3 FM, Framingham
State College's radio station,
provides the frequency,
thereby enabling MRRS to be
heard via a special radio
receiver provided by the
Talking Information Center
(TIC). The service can also be
heard on the main frequency of
WDJM whenever students are not
broadcasting. However, because
WDJM is a student run
radio-station, they reserve
the right to preempt radio
reading service on the main
frequency. In order to receive
this service uninterrupted,
you must obtain a receiver. To
do so you can call the
Disability Services Office at
Framingham State College at
508 626 4627 and we will be
happy to provide you with the
receiver.
MRRS also has an advisory
board that meets three times a
year, (January, March, and
June). In addition, we also
have our popular annual
meeting, Appreciation Day,
every April. All interested
persons are welcome to attend.
In addition to our reading of
local newspapers, books, and
magazines, we offer many
specialized programs such as
ADA Journal, which features
disability publications,
meetings of disability
organizations and commissions,
MetroWest Supermarket Guide, a
reading of local supermarket
fliers; Food and Dining;
MetroWest
ClassroomEducational Issues
and the Young Adult Literature
Program, and Careers and
Business, and the Job Find-our
job announcements and
employment tips program.
Because the MRRS is a program
of the Disability Services
Office at Framingham State,
our programming hours are in
blocks between 9:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, twelve months a year.
On the weekends, we broadcast
Saturdays from 9 am to 10 am
from September to May; and on
Sundays from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30
p.m. from September to May.
The Sunday paper is read
during the weekdays when
classes are not in session.
Metro
West Radio Reading -
Weekly Schedule
Revised April 2005
Monday
| 9:00
am |
Community News including
Senior Center newsletters
and other items of
interest to Seniors and
publications and
information from the
League of Women Voters |
|
2:30 pm |
Reading at FSC (Our book
program including books
selected for discussion at
the President's Book Club) |
|
4:00 pm |
Community News including
the MetroWest
Daily News |
Tuesday
| 9:00
am |
Business
and Technology |
|
10:00 am |
Community
News |
| 2:30
pm |
ADA
Journal |
| 4:00
pm |
Community News including
the MetroWest
Daily News |
Wednesday
| 9:00
am |
Community News featuring
The Pilot, Boston's Roman
Catholic Archdiocese
Newspaper |
| 11:00
am |
Metro
West
Supermarket Guide |
| 2:30
pm |
ADA
Journal |
| 4:00
pm |
Community News including
the MetroWest
Daily News |
Thursday
| 9:00
am |
Community News (this
includes Framingham State
College student newspaper,
The Gatepost, and The
Framingham Tab, and the
Sunday Metro West Daily
News during semester
breaks and summer). |
| 11:30
am |
Metro
West
Supermarket Guide
(Repeat) |
|
2:30 pm |
Reading at FSC |
| 4:00
pm |
Sports |
| 5:00
pm |
Community News including
the MetroWest
Daily News |
Friday
| 9:00
am |
Community News featuring
Jewish newspapers such as
The Forward and The
Advocate |
| 10:00
am |
Boston Globe Magazine |
| 11:00
am |
Food
and Dining |
|
2:00 pm |
The Weekend's Here
featuring FSC's Arts and
Humanities, a program
featuring lectures,
concerts and events by the
college's Arts and
Humanities program
including meetings of the
President's Book Club, And
In and Around MetroWest
Boston, a supplement of
the Thursday MetroWest
Daily News that gives you
a calendar of events for
the weekend, and
happenings at the Museum
of Science and other
goings on in the area |
| 5:00
pm |
Community News including
the MetroWest
Daily News |
Saturday
| 9:00
am |
Metro West
Daily News (From September
to mid December and from
late January to early May) |
Program Notes:
1.
Whenever The MetroWest Radio
Reading Service is not
programming, listeners can
hear the Talking Information
Center T.I.C. Massachusetts
Reading Network 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.
2.
When you see Community News on
your schedule it means we
carry the following area
newspapers: Ashland
Directions, The Natick
Bulletin and Tab, The Sudbury
Town Crier and Tab, The
Framingham Tab, The Boston
Globe West Section, to mention
a few. In addition, Community
News also includes The League
of Women Voters, Religious
periodicals such as The Pilot
and The forward, Senior News
such as Fifty Plus Advocate,
and The Callahan Currier, the
Callahan Senior Center
Newsletter in Framingham and
The Kennedy Senior Center
Newsletter in Natick.
3.
The Saturday MetroWest Daily
News is broadcast Saturday
mornings from 9-00 a.m. until
10-00 a.m. From September to
mid December, and from Late
January to early May.
4.
Information about the
Disability Services Office,
its programs and services,
including The MetroWest Radio
Reading Service can be
accessed on our Web site
http://www.//www.framingham.edu/disabilityservices.
If you wish to listen to Radio
Reading Services including
archive programs and the State
wide network on the internet
it is Ticnetwork.com.
Click on affiliates, scroll
down and find MetroWest and
click on Listen Now.
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