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"People who are visually impaired or blind are so isolated,
Maine AIRS provides a connectedness." - a listener from Kennebunk, ME.
Maine Airs

This special news and information radio program broadcasts extensive material from Maine's daily and weekly newspapers to individuals who are visually impaired or print disabled. Volunteer readers present information notLocal news is read daily on Maine AIRS usually accessible in audio form such as community calendars, shopping news and obituaries.

Maine AIRS should begin playing on your computer's media player a few seconds after you open this page. If it doesn't, check to see that your speakers are turned on and the volume is up, or that your media player is operating. To hear Maine AIRS without a computer, you need an SCA (subsidiary channel audio) receiver.

For more information about these receivers and how to acquire one, please call the Iris Network at 1-800-715-0097.

 

Programming Notes:

The Town of Brunswick's TV-3 carries Maine AIRS on the following schedule:

Monday-Friday 9-10 AM
Tuesday & Thursday 11 AM-Noon
Saturday 10 AM-Noon
Sunday 7-9 AM
 

Maine Airs on Demand
We will begin offering selected Maine Airs Programming to download so you may listen at your convenience, on-the-go, or for downloading to your iPod, or other portable audio device.
Click here to subscribe to the Portland Press Herald feed
 
or just click on the file below you wish to play:
(to download - right click the file and select save target as...)
 
Portland Press Herald:
Monday Part 1
Monday Part 2

Tuesday Part 1
Tuesday Part 2
 
Wednesday Part 1
Wednesday Part 2
 
Thursday Part 1
Thursday Part 2
 
Friday Part 1
Friday Part 2

New!!!  Weekly and Monthly newspapers and magazines

The Northern Forecaster
 
The Scarborough Current
 
Downeast Magazine part 1
Downeast Magazine part 2
Downeast Magazine part 3
Downeast Magazine part 4

Various National News Stories


The Maine Reader

Monday-Friday 4:00p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and again at 6:30p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Episodes are rebroadcast Saturdays 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Current Book June 15th - July 8th

Wait Till Next Year:
A Memoir

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.

We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound; and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

This book is now complete
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15
Part 16        
 

 
Here If You Need Me

Read by Maine AIRS volunteer reader Margaret Clancey

Broadcast dates: May 6-May 21, 2009

 

Ten years ago, writer Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband.

 

Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to continue her husband's dream and became a Universalist minister herself, and in that capacity she found a most unusual mission: serving as the chaplain on search and rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing, and to the game wardens who sometimes have to deal with awful outcomes. This is the story of Braestrup's journey from grief to faith to happiness, an uplifting account about finding God through helping others.

 

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12      

"Gandhi." by John Severance
It's kind of a Cliff Notes version. Four episodes. Read by Alex Severance. March 27, 30, 31 and April 1.

This book is now complete

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4  

 
Finding Amy
A True Story of Murder in Maine
by Captain Joseph K.Loughlin and Kate Clark Flora


Combining the drama of a true crime story with the detail of a police procedural, Finding Amy chronicles the investigation into one of the most shocking murders in recent Maine history. Twenty-five-year-old Amy St.Laurent was attractive, intelligent, and responsible. One October evening, she went out to show a friend from Florida the exciting nightlife of Portland’s Old Port section. She played pool. She danced. And then she disappeared.
Read by Randi Lebar

February 24 - March 26, 2009
 
This book is now complete
Available on on demand - just click on the file below to play

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Maine AIRS is available throughout Maine on the secondary audio program (SAP) channels on the following public TV stations:

Greater Portland, Lewiston, Augusta areas on WCBB, channel 10

Greater Orono, Bangor, Waterville areas on WMEB, channel 12

Greater Calais, Downeast areas on WMED, channel 13

Greater Aroostook County area on WMEM, channel 10

NOTE: MAINE AIRS IS NOT AVAILABLE on WMEA, CHANNEL 26 in greater Biddeford, Saco and the Southern Maine area.

Maine AIRS Newspaper Schedule at a Glance

Effective May23, 2009

(RB) = Repeat Broadcast

Monday through Friday:  Click on a day of the week to see a detailed schedule for that day.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Weekend
 
8 a.m.- 9 a.m. The Daily Papers
Bangor Daily News (8:00 - 8:30)
The Lewiston Sun-Journal (8:35 - 9:00)

8:30 a.m.  Meals for Me- menus for Meals for Me program serving Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock and Washington counties. Presented by Eastern Agency on Aging.

8:31 a.m.- What's on TV Tonight? A listing of programs on the major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.

8:59 a.m.  The Shopping Cart  what's on sale at Hannaford Brothers Supermarkets.

9:00 a.m. Portland Press Herald

9:30 a.m. What's on TV Tonight? A listing of programs on the major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.

9:35 a.m.-10:00 a.m.:   Kennebec Journal, Waterville Morning Sentinel

10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Taking Just a Moment
Monday: Downeast Magazine
Tuesday: Various publications and features
Wednesday: Various publications and features
Thursday: Various publications and features
Friday: Various publications and features

10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Monday through Friday: Here is What We Think- a program of editorials, letters to the editors and commentaries that appear in Maine's daily and weekly newspapers.

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon The Weekly Shelf Reading from the state's weekly newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Portland Press Herald, read from the Portland Maine AIRS studio.

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Bangor Daily News/Lewiston Sun Journal, rebroadcast from this morning.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Weekly Shelf (rebroadcast from 11 a.m.)

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (See 10 a.m. listings)

3:30- 4:00 p.m.- Here’s What We Think (Mon, Wed and Fri)

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  The Maine Reader - presenting books by Maine authors or stories about Maine read by Maine AIRS volunteer readers.

4:30-5:30 - Bangor Daily News/Lewiston Sun Journal, rebroadcast from this morning.

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (See 10 a.m. listings)

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Maine Reader - presenting books mostly by Maine authors or stories about Maine read by Maine AIRS volunteer readers.

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Portland Press Herald

8:00 p.m. Off air for remainder of the day

Saturday:

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Weekend Bangor Daily News

8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. What's on TV Tonight?

9:00 a.m.  The Shopping Basket- what's on sale at Hannaford Brothers.

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 noon The Weekly Shelf: Readings from the state's weekly newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - The Weekly, published by the Bangor Daily News

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon The Weekly Shelf Reading from the state's weekly newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - AARP Magazine

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. The Northern Forecaster

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Portland Forecaster

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Weekend Bangor Daily News – rebroadcast from this morning.

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. The Weekly, published by the Bangor Daily News

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Current

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Portland Forecaster

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Northern Forecaster

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reading from the state's weekly newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.

5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The Maine Reader- a rebroadcast of the five daily episodes from the past week

8:00 p.m.- Sign off until 7 a.m. Sunday
 

Sunday:
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.: The Maine Sunday Telegram (rebroadcast at 9 a.m.,11 a.m., and 4:30 p.m.)

8:00 a.m. The Shopping Basket - selected sale items at Hannaford Brothers markets in Maine

8:01 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Portland Forecaster
 
8:30 a.m. What’s on TV Tonight? A listing of prime time programs on the major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.

8:35 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Northern Forecaster

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Rebroadcast of the Maine Sunday Telegram

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Current
 
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Weeklies - Portland Phoenix, The Switch, West End News, Working Waterfront
 
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Rebroadcast of the Maine Sunday Telegram
 
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. The Maine Reader- a rebroadcast of the five daily episodes from the past week
 
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - AARP Magazine
 
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Downeast Magazine
 
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Weeklies - Portland Phoenix, The Switch, West End News, Working Waterfront
 
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Maine Sunday Telegram

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Portland Forecaster

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Current, Lakes Region, Suburban, Weekly

6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Bangor Daily News Weekend Edition

8:00 p.m. Sign off until Monday morning at 8 a.m.

 

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