Talking Information Service.....

[Don]

Tuning across the dial...and came across the Talking Information Service (I 
think) on WUML 92.5 U Mass Lowell.  Amateurish people reading magazine and 
newspaper articles, etc.  (The sound was amateurish and not polished....but 
most of them read pretty ok...without stumbles etc.)

I know WATD in Duxbury ran it as well......and was under the impression that 
this service for the blind operated on SCA...a sub carrier...but since it is 
Summer, I guess school stations are not fully staffed and this might be 
filler.

Got me to thinking....I have known 2 blind people....and they have never 
heard of this...and never had any need for this type of service.  Does this 
service provide anything that a blind person could not get from regular 
broadcast radio and HD?

Does anyone really listen to this?  Is the programming I am hearing coming 
from WUML studios?  Or is it a networked thing originating from WATD?

I thought once about volunteering for something like this....but can't 
imagine it is used by very many people.

Anyone have any insight?