Phone: 252.443.7551

Down East Radio Reading Service, Inc. (DERRS), which has been on the air since 2003, is an efficient and effective operation currently serving more than 1,000 individual listeners and listening stations 24 hours a day from its studio in the Tarrytown Center in Rocky Mount.

DERRS broadcasts news and information read from local newspapers and other printed material for people in Nash, Edgecombe, and Wilson counties who are blind or print impaired. DERRS partners with the North Carolina Reading Service in Raleigh, which provides 24/7 daily broadcasting.

More than 100 volunteer directors, officers, and readers manage and staff the service, which has no paid employees. Operations are funded through the generosity of individual, civic and corporate patrons. To learn how you might be a part of radio reading in our area, refer to other sections of this web site.

Down East Radio Reading Service, Inc. is a 501c(3) not-for-profit entity operating in the public domain.  Its books are available for examination by the general public, by appointment only.