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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.

Journalism Ethics & The Crisis in Local News

February 18, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us for a conference on ethics and the crisis in local news, featuring news professionals and researchers from across the country. Topics include: ethics in local contexts, ethics and economics, innovations and the way forward, partisans, the public and polarization, and a keynote conversation with the executive editor and publisher of The Miami Herald, […]

WORT Welcomes Shaun Soman as Assistant News Director

January 22, 2020 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

WORT is pleased to announce the hire of Shaun Soman as Assistant News Director. Shaun has produced the WORT local news since October. They are also no stranger to the music and talk departments. Shaun is a contributor to Wednesday evening LGBTQ+ show Queery, and a former host of Another Green World on Tuesday mornings. […]

Media, Money, and the Radical Right with Anne Nelson

December 27, 2019 by A Public Affair

In 1981, a group of conservatives met and formed a coalition they called the Council for National Policy whose membership was secret. Since then, the Council has exerted enormous influence on American politics and the information wars up to the present day. For this episode, Esty speaks with journalist Anne Nelson about her new book, […]

Freelance Journalists’ Union holiday gathering

December 2, 2019 by Music Department

Meet members of the IWW’s Freelance Journalists’ Union Friday between 6 and 8pm at the Tip Top Tavern on the corner of North St. and Commercial Avenue. The Freelance Journalists’ Union launched in March to organize and build power. Many journalists now work independently and remotely, so the FJU is piloting a new approach to […]

Scrutinizing the Corporate News Cycle with Project Censored 2020

November 15, 2019 by A Public Affair

It’s that time of year again! Today on the show, we catch up with Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, to talk about their latest yearbook, Censored 2020: Through the Looking Glass, a collection that scrutinizes the current corporate media landscape and highlights some of the best independent news reporting from the past […]

Work for WORT

September 15, 2019 by WORT News Department

WORT is hiring! WORT 89.9 FM is looking for an interim News and Public Affairs Director. This is a temporary, limited-term position expected to last approximately 3 months to fill a vacancy. A search for a permanent News and Public Affairs Director is underway. The position involves responsibility for 20+ hours of weekly broadcast airtime […]

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