The Public Radio Fund enables investors to support public media on a national level. Your investment in the Public Radio Fund:

Strengthens the role of local media in communities
With a $2 million loan from the fund, Etown, a radio broadcast dedicated to “music, ideas and community”, is moving into a new facility “Etown Hall” in Boulder, CO. Heard weekly from coast to coast on NPR, community radio and commercial stations, etown shows are recorded in front of live audiences and feature performances by leading musical artists as well as conversations and information about our communities and world.

Expands public radio services to new and existing listeners
A $2.5 million loan from the fund was at the heart of a financing strategy for KERA’s $18 million acquisition that launched KXT, an alternative public radio music station in North Texas. In its first month, KXT.org received 170,000 page views from visitors in 64 countries and all fifty states.

Supports independent, diverse voices
A $618,000 loan from the Public Radio Fund was part of a financing strategy that enabled Wasatch Public Media to buy their community station from their licensee and continue to serve the community with independent voices, in-depth local news and world affair reports. Despite 10 full-time employees and a signal reaching 50,000 weekly listeners in Salt Lake City, KCPW-FM was on the verge of being sold off by its licensee - the largest religious broadcaster in the nation had expressed interest in purchasing it.