Youngstown Radio Reading Service
Encyclopedia
The Youngstown Radio Reading Service (YRRS) is a radio reading service
located in Youngstown, Ohio
, providing daily readings of a wide variety of topical printed materials to blind
and vision-impaired
people. YRRS is based at 2747 Belmont Avenue at the Goodwill Industries
building in Youngstown. It is a member of Ohio Radio Reading Services, an organization of nine radio reading services throughout Ohio. A volunteer-driven operation, YRRS operates everyday from noon to 11:40 p.m.
Reception of YRRS requires a special radio receiver tuned to WYSU
88.5 FM; the receiver is provided at no cost to its vision-impaired listeners. YRRS operates with the use of WYSU's radio subcarrier
.
Radio reading service
A radio reading service or reading service for the blind is a service of many universities, community groups and public radio stations, where a narrator reads books, newspapers and magazines aloud for the benefit of the blind and vision-impaired. It is most often carried on a subcarrier, with...
located in Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
, providing daily readings of a wide variety of topical printed materials to blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
and vision-impaired
Visual impairment
Visual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...
people. YRRS is based at 2747 Belmont Avenue at the Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International is a not-for-profit organization that provides job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who have a disability, lack education or job experience, or face employment challenges...
building in Youngstown. It is a member of Ohio Radio Reading Services, an organization of nine radio reading services throughout Ohio. A volunteer-driven operation, YRRS operates everyday from noon to 11:40 p.m.
Reception of YRRS requires a special radio receiver tuned to WYSU
WYSU
WYSU is a National Public Radio member radio station. Licensed to serve Youngstown, Ohio, USA, the station is currently owned by Youngstown State University....
88.5 FM; the receiver is provided at no cost to its vision-impaired listeners. YRRS operates with the use of WYSU's radio subcarrier
Subcarrier
A subcarrier is a separate analog or digital signal carried on a main radio transmission, which carries extra information such as voice or data. More technically, it is an already-modulated signal, which is then modulated into another signal of higher frequency and bandwidth...
.