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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.

Wisconsin’s Energy Future

September 23, 2019 by A Public Affair

Today’s show is all about Wisconsin’s energy future! We spend the hour exploring the price of energy for consumers, energy storage, electricity, opposition to the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Line project, sustainable alternatives, and more. Our guests are Tom Content, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, who are celebrating their fortieth anniversary this […]

Energy Reporter Chris Hubbuch reviews 12 months of Wisconsin Energy Ne...

September 5, 2019 by Wisconsin Energy Broadcast

Energy reporter Chris Hubbuch of the Wisconsin State Journal joins the Wisconsin Energy Broadcast to discuss Evers new 100% clean energy goal for Wisconsin and all the major energy developments in the last twelve months. This is the two year anniversary of the Wisconsin Energy Broadcast! And we are enormously grateful to you, our listeners. […]

Energy Show: Electricity and Sustainability

June 17, 2019 by A Public Affair

“Our energy use—or abuse—is at the core of climate disruption,” says Patty Peltekos. For today’s show, she takes a close look at our current energy system and looks to new, more sustainable energy futures. First, she focuses on electricity, “the grid,” and what it means to be a pro-sumer with Gary Radloff, principal at The […]

Energy Show: Cardinal-Hickory Creek and Dam Construction in Laos

February 18, 2019 by A Public Affair

Today’s episode takes a close look at two energy projects: the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Line Project in Iowa and Wisconsin, then the Xe Pian Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in Southern Laos. First, we hear from Nikki Jones, Bruce Paul, and Dave Clutter about their opposition to the Cardinal-Hickory Creek project. For the second segment, […]

Lauren Azar: Appointee to Governor Elect Evers’ Agriculture, Ene...

December 20, 2018 by Wisconsin Energy Broadcast

On this episode of the WEB we replay one of our favorite interviews. We talk with Lauren Azar about the grid, microgrids, threats to the grid and the future of renewable energy. A former DOE and WI Public Service Commission official – Ms. Azar was appointed in December 2018 to Gov. Evers’ Agriculture, Energy, and Natural […]

Dane County Climate Change Council (Part 1) & New Utility Pledges...

October 4, 2018 by Wisconsin Energy Broadcast and Perpetual Notion Machine

We kick off this show with news about major utility commitments announced in August to reduce CO2 emissions. We speak with Will Dean of RENEW WI about emissions reduction pledges from WEC Energy Group and Alliant Energy and what that will mean for the future of renewable energy in WI. Keith Reopelle, Director of the […]

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