- This article is about the hotline. For the historical newspaper, see Kol Mevasser (periodical).
Kol Mevaser is a Yiddish broadcaster, which runs as a hotline. It has special options for news, weather, lottery and traffic, together with scholarly information on several issues which are important to Haredi Judaism, and interviews with important figures. The news is updated twice a day, the other categories less frequently, and serves for ultra Orthodox Jews as a replacement for radio broadcasting. Kol Mevaser was established in 2003 by Zalmen Weider. As of May 2011, Weider is still the main news reporter on the hotline.
The number for Kol Mevaser is +1 (212) 444-1100. Its options are: press 1 for news, weather, and lottery; 2 for polls and the help forum; 3 for interviews, health, business and politics; 4 for special events; 5 for Torah issues; and 7 for traffic. The traffic section is updated during the months of July and August on weekends on the roads to and from the Catskills Mountains. They get the traffic updates from motorists driving on these roads. They teamed up with RoadInform.com to provide them with traffic updates in 2007.
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Kol Mevasser sometimes misidentifies women in news stories as men[1].
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