Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Music Assistant: Aaron Scholz – musicass@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

Wildlife Weekly

Each week, Jackie gives you practical tips on what to do when encountering sick or injured wildlife. Jackie Edmunds is the Wildlife Rehabilitation Training Coordinator for the Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center. She holds an advanced license for wildlife rehabilitation and permit for banding wild birds in the state of Wisconsin.

Invasive Plant Species

July 3, 2018 by WORT News Department

On Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Sandberg explains invasive plant species. Invasive means that they aren’t local plants, typically they come when people or animals travel. There are about four thousand invasive species in the US. Invasive species are ruining ecosystems. They disrupt the water, soil and wildlife already in that area. Here in Madison there […]

Mange

August 8, 2017 by Wildlife Weekly

This week on Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Edmunds talks about Mange and how to find and help save an animal with Mange. Mange affects mammalian species and can cause many problems for animals. Mange is caused by parasitic mites that burrow under the skin of the animal it is infecting and lays its eggs. Mange takes […]

Lead Toxicity

August 1, 2017 by Wildlife Weekly

This week on Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Edmunds talks about lead toxicity and how it impacts animals. Birds can easily get lead toxicity from eating carcasses left from hunting. This can cause a lot of problems for birds. Lead toxicity can cause many things including neurological issues and lethargy. By bringing a bird in the […]

Wildlife Weekly: Storm Injuries

July 24, 2017 by Wildlife Weekly

This week on Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Edmunds of the Dane County Humane Society, talks to us about the effects the recent storms have had on the local wildlife. The storms have caused many animals that are injured, drowned, or sick to come into the rehabilitation center. Some of the animals include a Red-tailed hawk that […]

Bird Nests

July 18, 2017 by WORT News Department

This week on Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Edmunds of the Dane County Humane Society talks about bird nests that are destroyed during a storm. The nest could carry eggs or baby birds so it is important to know what to do. It is best to get the birds back as soon as possible as the […]

Bird Strikes

July 4, 2017 by WORT News Department and Wildlife Weekly

On this episode of Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Edmunds of the Dane County Humane Society Wildlife Center, talks to us about bird strikes. She states that as we live in a very urban part of Wisconsin, birds hitting our windows are a common occurrence. This is due to us being in the Midwest Flyway, which […]

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