CGR Radio for the blind please read!!
CGR radio is local and is NOT a non-profit, nor it has a huge office/studio, it is just I and in-home volunteer readers, a local community-based reader/content provider, it is NOT political based, but an open-minded policy of broadcasting, and I do not do any talk shows, I just do daily station operations/engineering.
Programming comes from over 300 sources, program independent program providers, and various networks, mainly intended for the blind, visually impaired, and disabled. Programming is free and on 7 days a week, with 8 streams.
CGR carries programming that is NOT heard locally(for the blind)on any local/NW AM-FM-LPFM such as 99.9 KXRW OR KBOO…but has PACIFICA Network programming and from the IAAIS Program Share, ACB Radio.
CGR is mainly self-supported, I am disabled, and it has a low budget, it costs about 300.00 to pay for the bills from my SS disability… I want to clarify, it has no political connections or agenda stays independent, and has NO staff…
Just in-home volunteers who read books and magazines, CGR is the ONLY full-time audio service in the NW and has been locally operated since 2012, there is no main studio just my office. I do all the programming, scheduling, and engineering.
With the combination of all streams, 3rd party apps, plus it is heard through KFAE and KPBX subcarrier 67KHz service(needing a special SCA Radio, loaned out from those stations, and the SCA service is for those who do not or care to do apps, computers, and such, for years radio reading services still use SCA technology and are in hospitals and nursing homes, and many tune in for Old Time Radio and public domain programming. I have been in radio for years and since 1995 involved with programming for the blind.
I keep it simple. I have no staff, and one person does local content and community-based volunteering. Sadly, I no longer do on-location remotes or talk shows due to my health or interviews due to taking care of my wife.
My goal is not to compete with KXRW/KXRY/KBOO or any local AM FM LPFM such as Bustos or a local Russian Slavic station.
The streams DO work and the best platform is FIREXOX since Voscast and CHROME do not work together and many public places may have firewalls to block, but they do work and Voscast is the cheapest, with no listener cap and is on MONO due to the old-time radio, nostalgia, and much of the music and programming is PUBLIC DOMAIN and CGR has a collection of over 123,000 songs, recordings, old time radio(11,000)going back to the 1890s and I digitized many and all were traded from collectors and no money was exchanged.
Much of the music, old-time radio, nostalgia plays commercials and shows were pre-PC of that time, and content such as cigarette commercials and of that period it has a valuable historical value of being an oral/music history view of programming.
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