Wort’s 7th Annual Birthday Boost

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.

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!

On Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 WORT turns 40.

You know what that means—our Birthday Boost must be around the corner.

Starting Friday, December 4,with the Eight O’Clock Buzz, and going through Saturday’s Tropical Riddim show on December 5th, we will be asking for listeners to donate in honor of our 40th birthday. That’s a quick 30 hours of programming with a goal of $10,000.

What can you do? If you host one of the shows during the Boost:

Please limit your guests so that you are able to rap for at least one third of your show. If you can record any testimonials from past guests before your show, that address the importance of WORT to those guests and to our community, you’re halfway there. Recorded birthday wishes are a great way to lead in to the testimonial.
Be sure you have the strongest on-air pledge rappers for your show. Reach out to Molly or Sybil if you need help. Because this is only a 30 hour effort, we need the best phone volunteers, pledge rappers, and guests during this time.
As we did last year, we’ll have a promo that will start running the week after Thanksgiving, promoting the Boost. I will also send an email to around 3,000 listener sponsors a few days before the Boost starts.
Premiums: I haven’t decided what we will use for premiums. We still have copies of the bird book and Stu’s Madison book, but I’m hoping to get a little more creative. I welcome your suggestions!
I don’t believe that the drawing we held last year really fueled too many donations. Again, I welcome your suggestions in this area.

Ha! you say, I don’t host a show during the Boost, I’m off the hook. Not so fast.

Please be ready to help if one of the Birthday Boost hosts reaches out to you. Maybe the first hour of our boost features a gathering of some of our eight o’clock buzz hosts. Maybe you rap on a show. Maybe you help a host get a great guest.

Or maybe you have some suggestions for something that would be an added incentive for our listeners to give. Let me know!
I’ll be following up with more details about the Boost in the next two weeks. Thank you!