Dear Public Radio 90 Members-

Thank you for continuing to prove that listeners here in our upper great lakes region are willing to do what it takes to sustain their local public radio station, WNMU, Public Radio 90. You voluntarily give your time and money every year to keep things running and we couldn’t do what we do without you.

In just the last couple months, 245 more listeners joined our Public Radio 90 community of supporters giving financial contributions to help pay for the programs we all get to enjoy. Thanks and welcome.

With funding from traditional sources shrinking and with the competition for those shrinking dollars even greater than ever before, our only alternative is to continue to tighten our belts, squeeze every decibel possible out of the dollars we have and then turn to you to ensure that Public Radio 90’s great programs, the ones you listened to his very week, will remain secure.

Your contributions help make sure we can continue to bring you our blend of local and national programming unique to our listening area….NPR news and information programs.. classical, jazz, Blues and traditional music…entertainment programs.. AND our regional talent as well.

With your help we have made significant progress towards reducing our reliance on state and federal funding, a goal we have been working towards for several years. In fact, in the past few years, community support to Public Radio 90 has increased from 37% to 54% of WNMU’s annual revenue.

I’m proud to announce that thanks to you, we are already half way to our FY12 pledge goal with our current total now at $277,302. Simply amazing!

WNMU, Public Radio 90 is dependent on you for our survival and our success. Every member makes a difference in the quality of services we can offer our listeners. So, during our February Friendraiser campaign, set to run through February 9th we’re hoping to recruit at least 100 more listeners to join our Public Radio 90 family by making a contribution.

I’m asking you to make a financial pledge during our Friendraiser campaign AND to encourage someone else you know to give too. Just think how much we could do, if each of you can get just one other listener to join too. Remember we’re here for you because of you.

Thanks again,

Evelyn Massaro
Station Manager