WHAT IS UNDERWRITING?

You support our radio station with a donation, and we’ll promote your business or event with on-air announcements.

HOW CAN UNDERWRITING HELP YOUR BUSINESS?

Build awareness of your business

We will play customized messages for you as often as 10 times each day.
You can share event information, describe your menu, tell people about your store, or invite them to your release party.
Your messages will be broadcast on 98.9 FM, plus streamed through our mobile apps and our website.

Reach the audience you want

KRSM has abundant programming for many communities that are under-served by local media, and therefore hard to reach through advertising.
Our listeners know and trust us as an authentic voice from their neighborhood.
Use targeted marketing to play your announcements during the shows that will expose you to your ideal audience.

Invest in your business and your neighborhood

Your underwriting messages are more than just advertisements, they’re on-air thank you notes so the community will see you supporting something that they value.
Unlike traditional advertising, you can write off your underwriting as a tax-deductible charitable contribution.

Be a hero for your community

At a time when your neighbors are under attack, you can invest in dynamic new voices, boldly speaking truth to power.
Your donation helps to prepare the media-makers of tomorrow through hundreds of free training sessions, recording equipment for loan, and leadership opportunities for our volunteers.
You’re also supporting programs that amplify marginalized voices like students, elders, the incarcerated, and recent arrival immigrant/refugee communities.

SEE OUR RATES

HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?

Fill out the form below. We’ll email you in a few days with a draft of your underwriting announcement and a confirmation of the price.
After we’ve agreed on the language for the announcement, we’ll send you an invoice and a contract.
Once you’ve submitted payment and a signed contract, we’ll be ready to record and schedule your underwriting announcements. We can have them playing as soon as the following Monday.

Underwrite with KRSM

Your name (required):

Name of the business or event (required):

Your email (required):

Date and time of the event (if applicable):

Location of the business or event (required):

What you want people to know about your business or event: (required):

The most important/exciting thing(s) happening at your business or event:

Organization/business/person(s) in charge of the event (if applicable):

How to find more information about the business or event:

Slogan for business or event:

Which one of our volunteers helped you? (If applicable)

Which rate package are you interested in purchasing? (See our rate sheet above)

If you are purchasing a Targeted Play package, during what kinds of programs would you like your announcements to be played? (ex: Spanish-language, music, shows about entrepreneurship, prime time, shows about health and wellness, etc.)