Pressroom

Welcome to the WFMT Pressroom, your source for news and promotional materials from our studios.

Press Releases

December 14, 2016

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive receives a $400,000 Digital Programs for the Public Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

December 12, 2016

WFMT Radio Network spotlights Jazz with launch of a new national Jazz Network

November 18, 2016

WFMT / The WFMT Radio Network’s Relevant Tones and host Seth Boustead are honored with an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Radio Broadcast

November 16, 2016

WFMT Announces Artists-in-Residence for 2017

August 8, 2016

WFMT will air Ravinia Festival Gala concert marking the return of Maestro James Levine

June 1, 2016

WFMT announces Grant Park Music Festival broadcast schedule for summer 2016

January 28, 2016

WFMT celebrates Cinema in February 2016 with ‘The Film Score,’ a daily feature by Chicago Tribune Film Critic Michael Phillips, and an “Audio Film Festival” during Oscar® Weekend

January 8, 2016

WFMT celebrates ARTS MONTH Fridays in January 2016: A four-week exploration of the connection between music, the visual arts, literature, theater, and dance

September 15, 2015

WFMT to welcome U.S. Supreme Court Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG as Guest Host on Monday, September 21

August 7, 2015

WFMT Presents a Eleven-Concert Series: THE BACH KEYBOARD FESTIVAL

August 4, 2015

WFMT, Chicago’s Classical and Fine Arts Radio Station, Names CANDICE AGREE Afternoon Drive Host