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Listen to WMRA & WEMC on your Smart Speaker

In order to give you a personalized listening experience, we've developed a set of customized commands you can give to all Amazon Alexa devices. 

To listen to WMRA from your Alexa device;  

Say " Alexa, enable WMRA" which enables the WMRA listening skill. 

"Alexa, play WMRA" to start listening. 

"Alexa, pause " to pause the stream.

"Alexa, resume " to resume the stream.

"Alexa, stop " to stop listening.

To enable the WEMC skill follow the same steps replacing WMRA with WEMC in each step. 

Martin was born in Kenya and moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 2013 to pursue his education at James Madison University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Science and Technology in 2017. Martin joined WMRA shortly after graduation in August 2017.