Corporate Sponsorship
Connect with over 550,000 influential, educated listeners each week
Chicago Public Media’s Corporate Sponsorship team will work with you to design a custom-tailored program to help your organization reach its financial, marketing and philanthropic goals in our unique, commercial-free environment. Call and find out how easy it is to join other distinguished businesses and non-profit organizations that are already part of the WBEZ community.
Sponsorship vehicles can include:
- WBEZ 91.5 on-air announcements
- Vocalo 89.5 on-air announcements
- This American Life and Sound Opinions, produced by Chicago Public Media and heard across the country each week
- Event sponsorships, including our heralded Off-Air series, as well as WBEZ’s annual Global Activism Expo
- Digital advertising including tile ads, splash pages and online radio pre-rolls on WBEZ and Vocalo. Exposure also available on affiliated blog sites Windy Citizen and Gaper's Block
- E-Update, Vocalo and High Fidelity electronic newsletters, delivered into the mailboxes of highly engaged, devoted fans of Chicago Public Media
Sponsorship provides:
- Direct access to a difficult-to-reach, concentrated and affluent audience that includes consumers as well as many business decision-makers
- Important name recognition for your brand message among professionals and business leaders likely to be interested in your products and services
- Appreciation from your customers and peers who will recognize your commitment to the community and your support of Chicago Public Media
Contact Paul Friedman at 312.893.2939, and begin a dialogue on how easy it is to be a Chicago Public Media sponsor.

