Gatewave Radio is the free audio news and features service, based in New York, designed for visually impaired audiences. For eligible listeners, it can be accessed online, on smartphone apps, on special radios in the New York City area (purchased or borrowed from Gatewave), or by phone on NFB Newsline.
Gatewave serves the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. This area, with a population of 20.3 million, is the largest radio make in the United States.
Gatewave’s principal and guiding objective is to broaden and deepen the content of material it broadcasts. To that end, Gatewave’s board now includes men and women with solid backgrounds in public service, education, and communications.
In addition, Gatewave has expanded and enriched the content of its service by including new, original programming of practical value to its audience. Gatewave is located at Helen Keller Services in Brooklyn, a direct connection to, and source of, programming for people with vision loss.
All of this will be added to the current round-the-clock, rich and varied Gatewave broadcast schedule featuring programs on:
- Book reviews
- Sports
- Film, theater, dance
- Food and cooking
- Economics
- Science
- Pets
- Entertainment
- Health
And that is just a sampling of the range of topics regularly addressed on air. The material can take the form of analysis, satire, commentary, reporting, criticism, and instruction.
The sources of information for Gatewave’s presentations comes from a roster of universally respected newspapers and magazines. The list includes:
- The New York Times
- Wall Street Journal
- Christian Science Monitor
- The Economist
- Rolling Stone
- Time
- The New Yorker
- O Magazine
- Businessweek
- Dogster
- Vanity Fair
- People
Contact Gatewave Radio
646.202.1049
Email: [email protected]
Online: gatewave.org
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