Radio Eye is also available as an internet stream at www.radioeye.org, on Frankfort Cable channel 2, NFB-Newsline, and the SERO and ooTunes apps.
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Radio Eye broadcasts on sub-carrier authorization frequencies of WUKY Public Radio in Lexington, Louisville Public Media, WEKU, and Morehead State Public Radio that allows our listeners to use special pre-tuned radios. We now also have Internet Radios available! These radios allow for the broadcast clarity of listening online but with the ease of use of a traditional radio! To apply for a radio simply fill out the form on our website, at the top of the Listeners page.
Thank you so much to the Kentucky School for the Blind Charitable Foundation for a wonderful time at the Evening in Paradise fundraiser on Friday! We particularly enjoyed hearing from TaMyah Jordan about her experiences as a KCB Alum at UK, and are so glad to be able to support you all just as KSBCF has supported Radio Eye over the years 🩵
Actually a biweekly publication, the LEO (Louisville Eccentric Observer) Weekly is Louisville’s “arts and entertainment news, community-focused stories, and colorful local commentary since 1990,” as per their website. Volunteer Jack Banbury dedicatedly reads this for us every week, recording from home or wherever in the world he happens to be!
LEO Weekly airs at 10:30 AM ET on Tuesdays on our Louisville broadcast (repeated at 4:30 PM and 1:30 AM ET) and is also available in podcast form at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-leo-weekly--2688017 or wherever else you access your podcasts as “The LEO Weekly.”
Every week, volunteer Rebecca Shore reads articles about history, science, and nature from the current month’s Smithsonian Magazine. Consistently one of our most listened-to podcasts, the Smithsonian magazine is a great way to stay up to date on developments in the museum and natural worlds!
Smithsonian Magazine airs at 3:00 PM ET on Thursdays (repeated at 11:00 PM ET) and is also available in podcast form at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/smithsonian-magazine--2827639 or wherever else you access your podcasts!
Radio Eye's studio will be closed on Monday, September 2 in observance of US Labor Day! We will be running alternative programming while we are out of the office.
Radio Eye staff have been busy preparing for our annual listener survey! We'll be mailing out surveys to registered listeners over the next week, but you can also complete the survey by calling our office or going to our website.
If you listen to Radio Eye, please complete the survey to let us know what you love (and what you don't) and how Radio Eye has affected your life!
Thank you, Mary Sue! Today marks Mary Sue's last day recording the New York Times for us after 15 years and over 1200 hours of dedicated service.
Mary Sue recently started volunteering with Frontier Nursing, acting in simulations to help students practice procedures and patient interactions before they begin working with actual patients. While she may return to Radio Eye for occasional recordings in the future, Mary Sue is excited to be able to put substantial time into another cause that is closer to home. We wish her the absolute best in her new endeavor!
On Wednesdays, volunteer Cindy Frazer reads a selection of informational articles from diabetes publications for our Diabetes and You program. A retired nurse, she enjoys finding resources that she thinks will be both entertaining and useful about ways to manage your diabetes, diet changes, and other tips pulled from a variety of medical sources.
Diabetes and You airs at 8:30 AM ET on Wednesdays (repeated at 4:00 PM and 12 AM ET) and is also available in podcast form at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/diabetes-and-you--2934214 or wherever else you access your podcasts!
Do you shop at Kroger regularly? By registering your Kroger Plus card with Community Rewards for Radio Eye, every time you use your card, Kroger will donate a percentage of the sale to Radio Eye.
Register your card at https://www.kroger.com/CommunityRewards . If you'd like help registering, bring your Kroger card by our studio office and we'll be happy to help.
If you've registered your card for Radio Eye in the past, don't forget that you need to re-register every August!
In anticipation of the Lexington Herald-Leader's changing publication schedule, our altered broadcast schedule will go live on Monday morning, July 29. On days that the Herald-Leader doesn't publish, we'll be reading the Washington Post, and that newspaper will be broadcast at 9:00 AM ET. The program guides on our website will be updated to reflect this change over the weekend.
How do you plan your grocery shopping? For many Radio Eye listeners, the Grocery Show is a key part of their planning since it’s how they find out about coupons and deals at local grocery stores.
The Grocery Show airs at 3PM ET on Wednesdays (repeated at 11PM and 7AM the next day), and we read the weekly grocery store ads from Kroger, Meijer, and Aldi. The program is also available in podcast form at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grocery-show--2453298 or wherever else you access your podcasts!
Thank you to the Lexington Legends and our fantastic volunteers for a wonderful evening at the ballpark! We had a great time seeing old friends, meeting new faces, and watching the Legends vs. the Dirty Birds.
You may recall our post from late May when the Herald-Leader announced its transition to print publication only on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, starting August 5. After consideration, the necessary changes to our programming schedule will be as follows:
Monday through Saturday, the 9:30am and 10am programming will move to 8 and 8:30am, with the Herald-Leader broadcast at 9am and sports to follow at 10am. The days that the Herald Leader is not published, we will read national news from the Washington Post instead. Our new reading schedule will begin on July 29 to give our readers time to adjust. Thank you for understanding!
Thank you so much to Jane Reid Klein and the Springfield Sun for their wonderful article about Radio Eye in this week's newspaper! The article features an interview with executive directory Lucy Stone, highlights volunteer Bruce Holzman's work, and talks about Radio Eye's impact on reading impaired Kentuckians.
Bruce's reading of the Springfield Sun airs at 10:30 am ET on Thursdays on the Louisville stream, repeated at 4:30 pm and 12:30 am. For more information about our services, please visit our website at www.radioeye.org or contact us by phone or email.
We're currently looking for outreach volunteers who are passionate about helping share information about Radio Eye's services with those who may need them! Outreach volunteers primarily operate informational booths at health fairs and occasionally speak in front of organizations. Contact us at [email protected] if you're interested in getting involved!
Did you know that volunteer Marcia Freyman’s recordings of National Geographic are one of our most popular podcasts? Marcia has been reading National Geographic for us for the last three years because she enjoys learning about other cultures. National Geographic generously donates their magazines to Radio Eye, which we are able to broadcast because of the Chafee Amendment.
National Geographic airs at 9:30 AM ET on Wednesdays (repeated at 7:30 PM and 3:30 AM ET) and is also available in podcast form at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/national-geographic-magazine--3430726 or wherever else you access your podcasts! Search for Radio Eye National Geographic Magazine.
Radio Eye's studio will be closed on Thursday and Friday, July 4-5 in observance of US Independence Day! We will be running alternative, themed programming on both days while we are out of the office.
We at Radio Eye love our animals, and we know our listeners do too! Our weekly Pet Corner program features readings from Whole Dog Health, Cornell Dog Watch, Horse Illustrated, and Modern Cat, including news, stories, and advice about a variety of animals.
Pet Corner airs at noon ET on Mondays (repeated at 5PM and 1:00AM ET) and is also available in podcast form at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/pet-corner--2959980 or wherever else you access your podcasts! Search for Radio Eye Pet Corner.
Tuesday and Thursday at ten am (repeated at four pm and midnight), Radio Eye’s Health Corner program broadcasts volunteer readings of general health news and information. Volunteer Carolyn Brown (pictured here) often reads for Health Corner, including from publications like the Mayo Clinic Health Letter, the American Macular Degeneration Foundation’s newsletter, Time Magazine, and the New York Times. Other more specific health programs play on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at ten am (repeated at four pm and midnight).
As you may recognize from the broadcast - Health Corner comes with the disclaimer that the health material presented in these programs is provided for listener interest and information and is not intended for the diagnosis or treatment of individuals. Please see your doctor or health care provider for that and for any other health related concerns you may have.
Radio Eye's studio will be closed on Wednesday in observance of Juneteenth. Most of our programming will be as usual, but keep an ear out for special readings when you would usually hear the Herald-Leader, Sports News, and Courier Journal!
Volunteer Ken Dawkins has been curating and reading a weekly digest of country music news for Radio Eye for nearly five years, and Country Weekly is a program that Radio Eye has broadcast for around twenty! Tune in weekly for updates about country music releases, reviews, celebrities, and more.
Country Weekly airs on Fridays at 12:30 PM ET, repeating at 5:30 PM Friday and 1:30 AM Saturday. It’s also available in podcast form at spreaker.com/podcast/country-weekly--2694651 or wherever else you access your podcasts! Search for Radio Eye Country Weekly.
It’s a beautiful weekend to visit the fair!
The Lexington Lions have been such great supporters of us over the years and we love seeing how fun the fair is year after year! Load the family up, grab a lemonade, and have a fun weekend!
Slide into the weekend at the ! The weather forecast is great. The rides are ready for you. And our Fair foods slap! 🎡🎠🎢🎟️🌭🍕🍗🍿🍪🍦🍭🍎🌽🥨
The Kentucky Series has long been a cornerstone of Radio Eye programming, featuring news and articles from local and special interest magazines from around the Commonwealth. Spencer County Living, Keeneland, Kentucky Monthly, Kentucky Living, and Southsider are only a few of the magazines that you will hear featured on Kentucky Series!
Kentucky Series airs at 12:30 PM ET Monday-Thursday, repeating at 5:30 PM that afternoon and 1:30 AM the following morning.
On Saturday afternoons, our National News Hour program revisits the previous week’s national news by readings of Newsweek and New York Times magazine. Volunteer Jessica Kotter has been reading this for us every week for over a year now!
While much of Radio Eye’s newspaper programming is focused on Kentucky, we broadcast (and podcast) readings from the New York Times on Monday-Friday (2 PM ET, repeated 10 PM and 6 AM) in addition to the weekly National News Hour, which airs on Saturdays at 3 PM ET, repeating at 11 PM.
Listeners, volunteers, and Radio Eye supporters - the staff and board are deliberating as to how this will affect our programming schedule and will announce any changes.
In case you missed it, the Herald-Leader announced this morning that they are moving to a Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday print publication schedule, effective August 5.
Editor: ‘We must be more strategic.’ In response to readers’ changing habits and efforts to move closer to economic stability, the Herald-Leader will reduce print editions to Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday with the US Postal Service delivering the newspapers.
Bill Sallee, Radio Eye's program manager (and expert sports reader!) has been helping out this afternoon at the 34th Annual Lexington Medical Society Foundation Golf Tournament alongside staff from the Lexington Hearing & Speech Center. Since 1989, the LMS Foundation has raised over $625,000 for Central Kentucky medical organizations, including fifteen years of generous support for Radio Eye. Thank you, Lexington Medical Society Foundation!
We will be playing alternate programming on Monday while studios are closed, but back to usual on Tuesday.
Five days per week, Radio Eye broadcasts an hour-long installment of our Book Series, bringing best selling and requested books to our listeners. Currently airing is volunteer Chauncey Curtz's reading of "The Greatest Generation Speaks," a collection of letters and reflections from WWII by Tom Brokaw.
Other books we’ve recently broadcast include Gatewood by Matthew Strandmark, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Land of Dreams by Kate Kerrigan, and No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
Book Series airs Monday-Friday at 1 PM ET, repeating at 9 PM that evening and 5 AM the following morning. Several titles are also available as podcasts.
Half Hour History has been a Radio Eye original program for over eight years. In its current incarnation, volunteer reader Joe Boldt has presented topics ranging from Kellogg's Cereal to Ripley's Believe It or Not, the California Gold Rush, the London Beer Flood of 1814, and the Roebling Bridge. The program airs on Fridays at 3 PM ET, repeating at 11 PM Friday and 7 AM Saturday, and is also available in podcast form (as "History Hour").
Thank you again for a successful Kentucky Gives Day 2024! 🎙 🎙 🎙 The $4875 that you donated will fund Radio Eye service for nearly 200 listeners across the Commonwealth for an entire year, providing listeners with connections to their communities via news, entertainment, and other programming around the clock.
Kentucky Gives Day lasts until 11:59, but we couldn’t wait until then to thank you all for your generosity - THANK YOU!
We've maxed out our matching donations and are SO close to our goal for the day, but it isn't over yet - there's still time to share our posts or hit that donate link to help support Radio Eye.
https://www.kygives.org/organizations/radio-eye
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For our Anniversary earlier this year, we had a video made to commemorate the history of Radio Eye. This truly shows why we do what we do! Today is the last day of the GoodGiving Challenge and we still have about $2500 in matching donations! https://www.bggives.org/radioeye There is also a challenge going on right now until 9pm - The Marksbury Family Foundation $60,000 match! Gifts up to $500 will be matched 50 cents on the dollar (maximum match of $250) until matching funds run out! If you've been thinking about an end of the year give - today is a great day to do it! A $50 donation from you would turn into $125 when it's coupled with our matches and the challenge above! https://www.bggives.org/radioeye
Lucy Stone shows some of the items ready to be bid on for our silent auction. The auction is live now at www.biddingowl.com/radioeye.
Our silent auction is open to bid on items! In this video, Emily Metcalfe shows you how to set up your account on Bidding Owl and start bidding. Create your account and start bidding at www.biddingowl.com/RadioEye.
It's only 3 days left until KY Gives Day! Our goal is to raise $9,658 for reading services for our listeners! We have four donors who've pledged to match $1,250! The donation page is already live at https://www.kygives.org/organizations/radio-eye. #kygives20 GIF description: dark blue background. Emoji with heart eyes at the top. Underneath, in white font, the words: 3 DAYS LEFT! COUNTDOWN TO #KYGIVES20
it's only 5 days left until KY Gives Day! Our goal is to raise $9,658 for reading services for our listeners! We have four donors who've pledged to match $1,250! The donation page is already live at https://www.kygives.org/organizations/radio-eye. #kygives20 GIF description: light blue background, animated pink and white flowers are drawn in the corners. Text reads: KY Gives Day May 12, 2020, 5 days left! Countdown to #kygives20 www.kygives.org
It's one week away from KY Gives Day! Our goal is to raise $9,658 for reading services for our listeners! The donation page is already live at https://www.kygives.org/organizations/radio-eye. Image description: animated GIF, multicolored banner across the top and animated confetti falling down from the top, with the words "1 WEEK LEFT, COUNTDOWN TO KYGIVES20"
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