Corporate Support

Sponsoring programs and digital content on PBS Michiana is more than just marketing - it's a statement of values. When your business or organization supports national and local PBS programming and digital content on WNIT, you align your brand with trusted, high-quality programming that informs, educates, entertains, and inspires.

PBS is consistently ranked as one of the most trusted institutions in America, and its viewers are loyal, engaged, and community-focused. By becoming a sponsor, you gain visibility with an audience that values integrity, lifelong learning, and cultural enrichment.

Unlike traditional advertising, PBS sponsorship offers a clutter-free environment with messaging that's thoughtful and non-commercial in tone. Your brand is showcased alongside award-winning documentaries, beloved dramas, curriculum-based children's programming, and in-depth news - reinforcing your commitment to public service and civic responsibility.

Whether you're an individual, a local business or a national organization, partnering with PBS builds brand trust, enhances your public image, and demonstrates your investment in the communities you serve.

To learn more about becoming an underwriter or for more information on sponsorships and levels, please contact Cindy McCraner at cmccraner@wnit.org or call at 574-675-9648 x330.

Payments

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WNIT Program Underwriters

1st Source Bank
- Antiques Roadshow
- Austin City Limits
- Great Performances
- Inside Indiana Business
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- NOVA
- PBS News Hour
- Prime Time Programming
32 Pearls Family Dentistry
- Children's Programming
5 Points Apartments
- Miscellaneous Programming
Afdent
- Children's Programming
- Prime Time Programming
Aladdin's Eatery
- Miscellaneous Programming
Jeannine and Nafe Alick
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Alick's Home Medical
- Antiques Roadshow
- Lawrence Welk
- Legends: The Boling Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Anderson, Agostino & Keller P.C.
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Andrews University
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
John and Katie Anthony
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Apple Valley Natural Foods
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Art Barn School of Art
- Miscellaneous Programming
Billie and David Bankoff
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Beacon Health System
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Big Idea Company
- Legends: Bill Sexton
John and Jo Broden
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Marsha Brooks
- Children's Programming
Center for Hospice Care
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Center for the Homeless
- Miscellaneous Programming
Edward and Carla Chester
- Legends: The Boling Family
City of South Bend - Community Investment
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Miscellaneous Programming
City of South Bend - Community Investment - Health & Housing
- Children's Programming
City of South Bend - Mayor James Mueller
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Robert and Marguerite Clemency
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Marilyn Coddens
- Miscellaneous Programming
Community Foundation of Elkhart County
- Legends: The Boling Family
Edward, Nancy and Anna Coppola and Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Corewell Health
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Cosimo & Susie’s A Bit of Italy
- America's Test Kitchen
- Lidia's Kitchen
Creative Styles Salon
- Legends: The Boling Family
Kevin and Sylvia Culp
- Legends: The Boling Family
D & W, Inc.
- Business Programming
Dan Berry Insurance
- Carl the Collector
- Legends: The Boling Family
Jamee Decio
- Legends: The Boling Family
Delta Dental
- Children's Programming
Aladean DeRose
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Joel and Amy Duthie
- Legends: The Boling Family
El Campito Child Development Center
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
El Pescadito Learning Center, Inc.
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
Elkhart & St. Joseph Counties Head Start Consortium
- Children's Programming
Elkhart Civic Theater
- Miscellaneous Programming
Elkhart County Symphony
- Miscellaneous Programming
Dr. J. Stuart and Joanne Engelberg
- Prime Time Programming
Angie and Phil Faccenda
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Family Dental Health
- Miscellaneous Programming
Bill and Kristin Fenech
- Legends: The Boling Family
Fenner Homes, Inc.
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Fettig Family Foundation
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Ann and John Firth
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Dan Fitzpatrick
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Mary and Jay Flaherty
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Foegley Landscape, Inc.
- Ken Burns' American Revolution
Joyce and Roger Foley
- Ken Burns' American Revolution
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Rick Steves
- South Bend Built by Baseball
Jody and Mike Freid
- Legends: The Boling Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
The Gates Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Dr. Steve Gerber
- Legends: The Boling Family
Jacob German
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Girls on the Run
- Miscellaneous Programming
Maggie and Steve Goldberg
- Children's Programming
Graham Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Gurley Leep Automotive Family
- Legends: The Boling Family
Gymnastics Michiana
- Children's Programming
Hass Hakim
- Legends: The Boling Family
Hayes Towers
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Heart of the Warrior Fund - Larry Davis
- Children's Programming
Craig Heatherly
- Legends: The Boling Family
Helman Sechrist Stoelting Architecture
- Legends: The Boling Family
Jennifer and Fred Helmen
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Holy Cross Village
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Douglas Hunt, former Indiana State Senator
- America @ 250
IBEW Local 153
- America @ 250
- Black History Month 2026
Marybeth Inabnit
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Indiana Citizen Education Foundation
- Miscellaneous Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Indiana Secretary of State
- Miscellaneous Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Indiana State Teachers Association
- Miscellaneous Programming
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations - Lumina Foundation
- Prime Time 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
- Masterpiece
- Miscellaneous Programming
- PBS News Hour
Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Pamela Johnson
- Great Performances
Jay Jordan
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Judd Leighton Foundation, Inc.
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Judee's
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Women's Programming
Maria Kaczmarek
- Children's Programming
Matthew Kahn and Janine Felder-Kahn
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Dennis Kaplan
- Legends: The Boling Family
Chris and Lorrain Karam
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Kurt and Linda Keigley
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Marijo and Kevin Kelly
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Daniel and Margarite Kinsey
- Legends: The Boling Family
Lillian Kinsey
- Legends: The Boling Family

Koontz Wagner Construction Services
- Black History Month 2025
Kosciusko County Community Foundation
- Education Counts Michiana
Andy and Joy Kostielney
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Kozmo Events
- Miscellaneous Programming
Kurt and Tessye Simon Foundation for Temple Beth-El
- Hanukkah 2025 Programming
Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund for Holocaust Remembrance
- Holocaust Programming
Lake City Bank
- American Experience
- American Woodshop
- Education Counts Michiana
- Experience Michiana
- Frontline
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Nature
- NOVA
- Outdoor Elements
- This Old House
Mike Leep, Sr.
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Leeper Park Art Fair
- Prime Time Programming
Logan Community Resources
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
Lush Lighting Inc.
- Miscellaneous Programming
Don and Joan Lyons
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Kathy Malone Beeler and Brian Regan
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Manny's Sports Bar and Restaurant
- Prime Time Programming
Sara Marcus
- Children's Programming
Ted and Tracy McCourtney
- Legends: Bill Sexton
McDonald Physical Therapy
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Vicki McIntire and Charlie Hayes
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Mex Express
- Prime Time Programming
Michiana Antique Mall
- Miscellaneous Programming
Michiana Pickleball Club
- Miscellaneous Programming
Mid-City Supply
- This Old House
Ken Milani
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Montessori Academy Edison Lakes
- Children's Programming
Libby Mountsier and Larry M. Davis
- Ken Burns' American Revolution
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Carmi and Chris Murphy
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Musical Arts Indiana
- Prime Time Programming
Tom Naquin Automotive Family
- Legends: The Boling Family
Naturally Native Nursery
- Miscellaneous Programming
Navarre Hospitality Group
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Kathleen and Mark Neal
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Andy and Liz Nemeth
- Legends: The Boling Family
Ninja Golf!
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Children's Programming
Kathy Nobles, State Farm Agent
- Legends: The Boling Family
Mary Pat and Dick Nussbaum
- Legends: Bill Sexton
OPS Living
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
PNC Bank
- Economic Outlook
PNC Grow Up Great
- PBS Kids
Patrick Industries, Inc.
- Legends: The Boling Family
Peacock & Company
- Miscellaneous Programming
Pfeifer, Morgan & Stesiak
- Amanpour on PBS
- Austin City Limits
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- PBS News Hour
- Prime Time Miscellaneous
Laura and Dr. Dave Pflum
- Children's Programming
Barb and John Phair
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and Four Winds
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Potawatomi Zoological Society
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
Premier Arts - Craig Gibson
- Legends: The Boling Family
- Miscellaneous Programming
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
- Prime Time Programming
Sheriff Bill Redman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
River Bend Hose Specialty
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- This Old House
River Front Forge
- Miscellaneous Programming
Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Miscellaneous Programming
Sue and Pat Ruszkowski
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Judy and Bob Schmuhl
- Frontline
- Masterpiece
Amy and Amish Shah
- Legends: The Boling Family
Shakespeare at Notre Dame
- Miscellaneous Programming
Silver Star Leather
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
South Bend Children's Dentistry
- Children's Programming
South Bend Children's Museum
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend Civic Theatre
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend Common Council & City Clerk Bianca Tirado
- Legends: Bill Sexton
South Bend Cubs
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
South Bend International Airport
- BBC World News
- Miscellaneous Programming
- PBS News Hour
- Weather Channel
South Bend Symphony Orchestra
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Miscellaneous Programming
Kelly and Brian Stanley & Mary Jane Stanley
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Stephanie Krol Public Relations
- Legends: The Boling Family
Stephenson's of Elkhart
- Legends: The Boling Family
Stifel - The Elkhart Group
- Legends: The Boling Family
Stitch 'n Time Fabrics
- Quilting Programs
- Sewing Programs
Joey and Kurt Stiver
- Children's Programming
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Daniel and Katie Storino
- Legends: Bill Sexton
John and Claire Storino
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Tristh and Don Storino
- Legends: Bill Sexton
The Lauber Kitchen and Bar
- Legends: Bill Sexton
The Lerner Theatre
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
The PC Doctor
- Business Programming
The Rex and Alice A. Martin Foundation
- Dinner & a Book
- Legends: The Boling Family
Nicholas Timm, MD, Deborah Longworth & Smudge the Wonder Whippett
- NOVA
Tire Rack
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Treat's Squire Shop
- Miscellaneous Programming
Tri-State Maintenance
- Business Programming
- News Programming
University of Notre Dame
- Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
- Legends: Bill Sexton
University of Notre Dame College of Science
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
- Science Programming
Village at Winona
- Children's Programming
- Dinner & a Book
- History Detectives
- Miscellaneous Programming
Visit Fort Wayne
- Children's Programming
WVPE
- PBS News Hour
- Prime Time Programming
- Washington Week
Wales Wealth Management Group
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
William K. Warren & Andrew N. Warren
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Welch Packaging
- Legends: The Boling Family
Carolyn Woo and David Bartkus
- Legends: Bill Sexton
YMCA of Greater Michiana
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
YWCA - North Central Indiana
- Miscellaneous Programming
Roberta and Ben Ziolkowski
- Legends: Bill Sexton

PBS Michiana Kids Club

Chick-Fil-A
Mossberg & Company
Nothing Bundt Cakes

St. Joe County Public Library

Sylvester & Tessie Kaminski Foundation

Private And Corporate Foundation Grants

Anonymous (2)
The Bowsher Booher Foundation
Community Foundation of Elkhart County
Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
Crossroads United Way
Dekko Foundation
Fred Rogers Productions
John W. Anderson Foundation
Kosciusko County Community Foundation, Inc.
The Pokagon Fund
Stanley A. and Flora P. Clark Memorial Community Trust 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.