WAMU 88.5 : Support

Corporate Support

July 29, 2011

WAMU receives nearly 40% of its revenue from the generous support of its underwriters.

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Anthony V. Hayes
Director of Corporate Marketing
(202) 885-1248
ahayes@wamu.org

In sponsoring WAMU 88.5, your company or organization reaches out to the community not only via the air waves, but also through our web site, wamu.org. Each of these media offers the unique opportunity to support the ongoing services provided by public radio in addition to putting your company or organization before a well-informed and active local community.

WAMU 88.5 is the #1 public radio station for news and information in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The majority of our listeners are between the ages of 25 and 54, well-educated, and professionally and financially successful. More than 770,000 people in the Washington/Baltimore area tune in to WAMU 88.5 each week.

Arts & Culture

WAMU 88.5

Art Beat With Lauren Landau, October 7

You can explore one calligrapher's modern take on Korean handwriting, or see two shows that require a little help from the audience.

Food

NPR

Fairfax Schools Pull All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

NPR

No End In Sight: Shutdown Showdown Enters Week Two

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees will go back to work on Monday, but many government operations remain suspended.

Technology

NPR

Wanted: A New Generation Of High-Tech Aviation Workers

Millions of U.S. factory jobs have been lost in the past decade. Now, in North Carolina, high school students are being encouraged to think about taking manufacturing jobs. But this isn't the furniture-making or textile labor of generations past — it's a new kind of highly technical work in aviation.