Join us in our challenge!
Florida's 89.1, WUFT-FM, with more than 57,000 unique listeners every week - offers you and your organization an opportunity to reach this audience during our Corporate Challenge. Throughout our 2011 Spring membership campaign, April 11 - 22, your challenge (donation) will be used to encourage listeners to phone in and make a donation.
We need your challenge grant
By giving a challenge grant gift of $250, $500, $1,000 or more, you or your company will:
- Gain exposure before an affluent, educated and growing audience
- Receive numerous on-air mentions throughout your specific challenge period of our campaign April 11-22,2011
- Be recognized in WUFT's monthly e-newsletter and on WUFT's website
- Create tremendous goodwill with the WUFT listeners and affiliate your business with these prosperous members
Our challenge is your challenge
The past several weeks have been challenging for public broadcasting nationwide. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to eliminate funding for public broadcasting and the issue will now go before the U.S. Senate. There is eminent danger of dramatic reduction of support at the state level. This valuable resource comes at a small cost of $1.35 per person at a national level. A priceless resource like public broadcasting cannot be lost.
Experts in the news-reporting arena agree that the NPR plays a significant role in lives of the more than 170 million American who use and depend on public radio and television each week.
We are two former newspaper editors who aren't comfortable advising Congress on how to vote on this or any other subject. But we are concerned that, in the heat of the debate, members of Congress may not realize the changing role that public radio stations, working with NPR, play in informing citizens in their communities"
We are two former newspaper editors who aren't comfortable advising Congress on how to vote on this or any other subject. But we are concerned that, in the heat of the debate, members of Congress may not realize the changing role that public radio stations, working with NPR, play in informing citizens in their communities."
- Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post 3/17/11 (Link)
...NPR covers news better than any radio station, and remains a source for information that many citizens get nowhere else...NPR, with the Federal government providing only two percent of its budget, remains a bargain"
- Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, 3/10/11 (Link)
Your support will directly impact our local success!
Florida's 89.1 is committed to maintaining our growing number of listeners informed.
- National Public Radio in the Gainesville-Ocala Market continues to reflect a significant growth in audience; WUFT-FM ranks 20th in the nation in AQH listeners* and 82nd in population size. *RRC LPC FA10 Arbitron Dairy Data
- Florida's 89.1 in the spring and fall 2010 pledge drives acquired 958 new members.
- WUFT-FM, in following NPR's changing role in investigative reporting, is committed to increased local coverage relative to national news, local news and public affairs. Featured stories inlcuded: Ocala and Marion County Chamber of Commerce officials planned trip to China to focus on possible business partnerships and a report of efforts at Santa Fe College and the University of Florida to help Japan dealing with the earthquake and tsunami devastation.
As a participant of the Corporate Challenge your support will multiply the donations received to maintain NPR's excellent programming and it will also serve to increase the momentum for our Spring Membership Campaign. I look forward to speaking with you and will contact you in the next few days to talk about the level of support you can provide to help maintain quality public radio programming for all the residents of North Central Florida.