News About WFPL

Support  WFPL News today (Monday, October 15) and you will automatically be entered into today’s Daily Incentive—a six play prize package including tickets to the 2012-2013 Brown-Forman series plus a pair seats at holiday favorite, A Christmas Story from Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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In case you missed his recent talk at the Brown Theater, This American Life host Ira Glass is on Reddit for an Ask Me Anything.

WFPL will broadcast Thursday's Vice Presidential Debate live at 9 pm, followed by analysis from NPR. We'll also broadcast the remaining two Presidential Debates on Tuesday, October 16 and Monday, October 22. 

To listen to the debates, you can tune in to 89.3 FM or you can click here to open a streaming window. (You can also click "Listen Live" in the top left of this window. 

For more listening options and direct links to our streams, visit our listening page. 

WFPL is hosting a debate tonight between Third District Congressman John Yarmuth and his challenger in the November election, Louisville accountant Brooks Wicker.

To listen to the debate, you can tune in to 89.3 FM or you can click here to open a streaming window.

For more listening options and direct links to our streams, visit our listening page. 

To listen to tonight's presidential debate, you can tune in to 89.3 FM or you can click here to open a streaming window.

For more listening options and direct links to our streams, visit our listening page. 

WFPL is participating in this year's Park(ing) Day. We've claimed a spot in front of our building on the 600 block of S. 4th Street. We're recording 15-second interviews with anyone who wants to sit down and we'll broadcast Byline live from the space at 1:00 today. Stop by to talk, eat lunch or see the show. 

This position reports to the Vice President for Development and Marketing, and coordinates with the management team to plan, implement and report on a variety of marketing functions, programs, events and strategies to grow audience and increase loyalty to our organization and programming streams. The ideal candidate will know how to build a brand, possess excellent communication skills, love contact with the public and be comfortable working towards specific goals.

Responsibilities:

The WFPL News staff is going outside. This Friday is Park(ing) Day, when city dwellers across the country put parking spaces to new use.

Park(ing) Day re-imagines metered parking spots as public spaces. So what could be more public than public radio? WFPL will set up a streetside studio outside of our headquarters at 619 S. 4th Street.

In our space, we'll present the radio equivalent of a photo booth. Here's how it'll work:

Louisville Public Media (LPM) is searching for a Major Gifts Officer to identify, qualify, cultivate and solicit major donor prospects for LPM, alone, and in consultation with the President, Development and Marketing Director, and members of the LPM Board of Directors. This position must be able to prioritize prospects, research their interests and capacities, and identify individualized strategy for solicitations and follow-up. The successful candidate will develop written strategies in consultation with the Development and Marketing Director; coordinate nature of contacts that prospects receive; facilitate relationships between potential and current donors and LPM’s staff and board; review prospect strategies regularly for LPM capital and annual campaigns; work with LPM management to create and supervise implementation of small targeted events for assigned prospects and donors.