Underwriting

WNIT Public Television offers several opportunities to help market your business.

Many large and small businesses in Michiana support WNIT by underwriting the cost of local and national programs or sponsoring outreach events. When you underwrite a program on WNIT, you take advantage of the many unique benefits that we offer over other broadcast and cable TV networks.

To learn more about becoming an underwriter or for more information on sponsorships and levels, please contact Cindy McCraner at cmccraner@wnit.org .

Benefits to becoming an underwriter:

Your message stands out in our uncluttered environment.
You're associated with the highest quality programming.
Your message reaches a highly desirable audience.
You're linked with the valued PBS® brand.
Our viewers will hold you in high regard.
You get additional impact beyond the screen.

Payments

Make An Underwriting Payment

WNIT Program Underwriters

100 Black Men of Greater South Bend
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
1st Source Bank
- Antiques Roadshow
- Austin City Limits
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Great Performances
- Inside Indiana Business
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- NOVA
- PBS NewsHour
- Prime Time Programming
32 Pearls Family Dentistry
- Children's Programming
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
AM General
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Afdent
- Children's Programming
- Prime Time Programming
African American Community Fund
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Aladdin's Eatery
- Miscellaneous Programming
Alick's Home Medical
- Antiques Roadshow
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Hispanice Heritage Month 2024
- Indigenous Peoples & Native American Heritage Month 2024
- Lawrence Welk
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
American Family Insurance, Don Hollingsworth Agency
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Anderson, Agostino & Keller P.C.
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Angel of Hope Memorial Garden
- Miscellaneous Programming
Art Barn School of Art
- Miscellaneous Programming
Tim and Mary Baker
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Billie and Dave Bankoff
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Caleb and Helen Bauer
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
State Representative Maureen Bauer
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Beacon Health System
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Bethel University
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
John and Jo Broden
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Buari Family Foundation
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Carl Buchanon, Sr.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
David and Dr. LaRissa Buggs
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Drs. Virginia and Richmond Calvin
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
CAPS - Child and Parent Services
- Children's Programming
- Local Programming
- News Programming
- Prime Time Programming
Alfred and Debra Carothers & Bemis and Brenda Blake
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Center for Hospice Care
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Center for the Homeless
- Miscellaneous Programming
Paul T. Cholis
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
City of Mishawaka - Mayor Dave Wood
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
City of South Bend - Mayor James Mueller
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Marilyn Coddens
- Miscellaneous Programming
Lynn and Myrtie Coleman - Let's Turn It Around
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Cosimo & Susie’s A Bit of Italy
- Caio Italia
- Cooking Shows
Jason Critchlow, Portage Township Trustee
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Dr. Marvin V. Curtis
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
D & W, Inc.
- Business Programming
Dan Berry Insurance
- Carl the Collector
Shay Davis
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Dr. Frederick Dean
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Deb Childs State Farm Insurance
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Delta Dental
- Children's Programming
Doshi Family Fund at Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Mary and Greg Downes
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Drive & Shine
- Weather Channel
Elkhart & St. Joseph Counties Head Start Consortium
- Children's Programming
Elkhart Civic Theater
- Miscellaneous Programming
Elkhart County Business Legacy
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
Elkhart County Symphony
- Miscellaneous Programming
Regina and Marcus Ellison
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Everwise Credit Union
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Prime Time Programming
Faith Alive Ministries
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Family Dental Health
- Miscellaneous Programming
Dr. E. Michael Feltman
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Fischoff National Chamber Music Association
- Miscellaneous Programming
Joyce and Roger Foley
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Rick Steves
Foley & Murphy
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Frankie's BBQ, Inc.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Franky's Tacos
- Women's Programming
Jody and Mike Freid
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Andre Gammage
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Garatoni-Smith Family Foundation
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Lisa and Steve Gerber
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Girls on the Run
- Miscellaneous Programming
Maggie and Steve Goldberg
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Graham Allen Partners
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
James and Carol Groves
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Alfred J. Guillame, Jr. and Melanie Smith-Guillame
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Gurley Leep Automotive Family
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Gymnastics Michiana
- Children's Programming
Mel Hall
- Economic Outlook
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Richard Hayes
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Hayes Towers
- Better Homes: The Play
- Children's Programming
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Summer in the Neighborhood
Heart of the Warrior Fund - Larry Davis
- Children's Programming
Jennifer and Fred Helmen
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Debbie and Rich Hill
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Hilton Garden Inn & Gillespie Conference Center
- Summer in the Neighborhood
Eric Horvath
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Hollis E. Hughes, Jr.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
IBEW Local 153
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Impower Center, Inc.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Indiana Secretary of State
- Miscellaneous Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Indiana State Teachers Association
- Miscellaneous Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Managed Health Services Indiana, Inc.
- Children's Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Milk Bank
- Children's Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Visit Fort Wayne
- Children's Programming
Indiana Trust Wealth Management
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
INOVA Federal Credit Union
- Business Programming
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
InterCambio Express
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
Ivy Tech Community College, South Bend - Elkhart
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Ivy Tech Foundation
- Miscellaneous Programming
Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Miscellaneous Programming
Calvin Johnson, State Farm Agent
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Jones Petrie Rafinski
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Amanda Judd, in Memory of Les Judd
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Judd Leighton Foundation, Inc.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Judee's
- Economic Outlook
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Women's Programming
Matthew Kahn and Janine Felder-Kahn
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Margaret and Karl King
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Kingdom Christian Center - Pastor Canneth Lee
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Jonathan and Jessica Kitchens
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Koontz Wagner Construction Services
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Kosciusko County Community Foundation
- Education Counts Michiana
Kozmo Events
- Miscellaneous Programming
Nancy and Jim Krzyzewski
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Debbie Ladyga-Block
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Laborer's Local #645
- Legends: Lynn Coleman

Lake City Bank
- American Experience
- American Woodshop
- Economic Outlook
- Education Counts Michiana
- Experience Michiana
- Frontline
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Nature
- NOVA
- Outdoor Elements
- This Old House
Lexington House
- Miscellaneous Programming
Linden Grill
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Steve and Peg Luecke
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Lush Lighting Inc.
- Miscellaneous Programming
MLK Foundation of St. Joseph County
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Sara Marcus
- Children's Programming
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
McDonald Physical Therapy
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Merrill Lynch / Matthew Kahn
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Mex Express
- Prime Time Programming
Michiana Antique Mall
- Miscellaneous Programming
Michiana Eye Center
- Miscellaneous Programming
Mid-City Supply
- This Old House
Miller Poultry
- Antiques Roadshow
- Business Programming
- Dinner & a Book
- Finding Your Roots
- Masterpiece
- Miscellaneous Programming
- PBS News Hour
Robert L. and Jane Woodward Miller
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Anna and Sam Milligan
- Children's Programming
Mishawaka Furniture
- Miscellaneous Programming
Steve and Janet Mitros
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Monterossa Law Group
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Montessori Academy Edison Lakes
- Children's Programming
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
Rafael Morton
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Mossberg & Company
- Children's Programming
Libby Mountsier and Larry M. Davis
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Carmi and Chris Murphy
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legend: Lynn Coleman
NAACP South Bend - Trina Robinson, President
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Mark and Kathleen Neal
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Sharon and Chuck Nelson
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
State Senator David Niezgodski
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Northern Indiana Hearing Center
- Antiques Roadshow
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Marcus Northern - Kennedy Expressline, Inc.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Notre Dame Federal Credit Union
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Susan and David Nufer
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Mary Pat and Dick Nussbaum
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Omni Pro Services
- Prime Time Programming
Operation Read USA
- Children's Programming
PNC Bank
- Economic Outlook
PNC Grow Up Great
- PBS Kids
Michael and Tina Patton
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Peacock & Company
- Miscellaneous Programming
Jennifer and Frank Perri
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Pfeifer, Morgan & Stesiak
- Amanpour on PBS
- Austin City Limits
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- PBS NewsHour
- Prime Time Miscellaneous
Barb and John Phair
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Barb and John Phair Foundation
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Potawatomi Zoological Society
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
Alma and Bill Powell
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Project Impact - South Bend, Inc.
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Sheriff Bill Redman
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Ida Reynolds Watson
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
River Bend Hose Specialty
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- This Old House
River Front Forge
- Miscellaneous Programming
RiverBend Cancer Services
- Miscellaneous Programming
Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Miscellaneous Programming
Chief Scott Ruszkowski
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Doug and Nancy Sakaguchi
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Salvation Army Kroc Center
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Lorrie and Bill Schmuhl
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Moe Scott
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Shakespeare at Notre Dame
- Miscellaneous Programming
Silver Star Leather
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
Lynda B. Simon
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
South Bend Children's Dentistry
- Children's Programming
South Bend City Clerk & Common Council
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
South Bend Civic Theatre
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend Community School Corporation
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Summer in the Neighborhood
South Bend Cubs
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
South Bend Heritage Foundation
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend International Airport
- BBC World News
- Children's Programming
- Local Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
- PBS NewsHour
South Bend Symphony Orchestra
- Miscellaneous Programming
Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra
- Miscellaneous Programming
St. Joseph County Democratic Party
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
St. Joseph Valley Building and Construction Trades
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Stanley Clark School
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
Steel Warehouse
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Joey and Kurt Stiver
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Studebaker National Museum
- Miscellaneous Programming
James and Wendy Summers
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Sweeney Julian Trial Attorneys
- Austin City Limits
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Politically Speaking
Talk With Your Baby
- Children's Programming
Luther and Gwen Taylor
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
The Antique Market of Michigan City
- Antiques Roadshow
- Prime Time Programming
The Arthur J. Decio Foundation
- Sesame Street
The History Museum
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
- Indigenous Peoples and Native American Heritage Month 2024
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Miscellaneous Programming
The Lauber Kitchen and Bar
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
The Montessori Academy Edison Lakes
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
The Music Village
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. South Bend Chapter
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
The PC Doctor
- Business Programming
The Rex and Alice A. Martin Foundation
- Dinner & a Book
THK Law, LLP
- Economic Outlook
Dr. and Mrs. Scott and Ann-Marie Thomas
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Janet and Larry Thompson
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
Tire Rack
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Brad and Katie Toothaker
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Treat's Squire Shop
- Miscellaneous Programming
Tri-State Maintenance
- Business Programming
- News Programming
United Way of St. Joseph County
- Education Counts Michiana
- Miscellaneous Programming
University of Notre Dame
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
University of Notre Dame College of Science
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
- Science Programming
Upchurch Family Foundation
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Robert and Debra Urbanski
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Van Horne Jewelers
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Village at Winona
- Children's Programming
- Dinner & a Book
- History Detectives
- Miscellaneous Programming
Visit Fort Wayne
- Children's Programming
WVPE
- Prime Time Programming
Karen White
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
Don and Pamela Wycliff
- Legends: Gladys Muhammad
YMCA of Greater Michiana
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
YWCA - North Central Indiana
- Miscellaneous Programming
Roberta and Ben Ziolkowski
- From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television

PBS Michiana Kids Club

Chick-Fil-A
Mossberg & Company
St. Joe County Public Library

Sylvester & Tessie Kaminski Foundation

Private And Corporate Foundation Grants

Anonymous (2)
Berrien Community Foundation
Community Foundation of Elkhart County
Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
Crossroads United Way
Dekko Foundation
Downtown South Bend, Inc.
Florence V. Carroll Charitable Trust
Fred Rogers Productions
Frederick S. Upton Foundation
John W. Anderson Foundation
Kosciusko County Community Foundation, Inc.
Marshall County Community Foundation
Stanley A. and Flora P. Clark Memorial Community Trust Foundation
Winnebago Industries Foundation

Promotional Support

Alpha Graphics
Duley Press
Express Press
Mossberg & Company Inc.
Rink Printing

General Operating Grants

1st Source WNIT Fund - CFSJC
WNIT Public Television Fund - CFSJC

It is the generous support of these area companies and organizations that allows all of Michiana to enjoy and benefit from the diverse spectrum of WNIT programming.