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: Lynn Coleman
1st Source Bank
- Antiques Roadshow
- Austin City Limits
- Black History Month 2025
- Great Performances
- Inside Indiana Business
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- NOVA
- PBS News Hour
- Prime Time Programming
32 Pearls Family Dentistry
- Children's Programming
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
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
- Echoes of the Great Migration
- Indigenous Peoples & Native American Heritage Month 2024
- Lawrence Welk
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Anderson, Agostino & Keller P.C.
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Dea Andrews and Tammy Bell
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Andrews University
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
John and Katie Anthony
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Apple Valley Natural Foods
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Art Barn School of Art
- Miscellaneous Programming
Mary Sue and Terry Austin
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Billie and David Bankoff
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
State Representative Maureen Bauer
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Beacon Health System
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Bethel University
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Big Idea Company
- Legends: Bill Sexton
David Ruth Blake
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Blue Gate Theatre
- Lawrence Welk
- Miscellaneous Programming
John and Jo Broden
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Buari Family Foundation
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Pastor David and Dr. LaRissa Buggs
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Dru Cash
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Center for Hospice Care
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Center for the Homeless
- Miscellaneous Programming
Charles Martin Youth Center
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Paul T. Cholis
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
City of Mishawaka - Mayor Dave Wood
- Black History Month 2025
City of South Bend - Community Investment
- Echoes of Great Migration
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Miscellaneous Programming
City of South Bend - Community Investment - Health & Housing
- Children's Programming
City of South Bend - Mayor James Mueller
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Forrest and Malik Clark
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Robert and Marguerite Clemency
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Marilyn Coddens
- Miscellaneous Programming
Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Edward, Nancy and Anna Coppola and Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Corewell Health
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Cosimo & Susie’s A Bit of Italy
- Caio Italia
- Cooking Shows
Cosimo A. Rulli - Allegra South Bend
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Jason Critchlow, Portage Township Trustee
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Dr. Marvin V. Curtis
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
D & W, Inc.
- Business Programming
Dan Berry Insurance
- Carl the Collector
Shay Davis
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Deb Childs State Farm Insurance
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Delta Dental
- Children's Programming
Aladean DeRose
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Mary and Greg Downes
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Drive & Shine
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Weather Channel
Dudley & Hampton Families
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Giovanna Edwards
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Elkhart & St. Joseph Counties Head Start Consortium
- Children's Programming
Elkhart Civic Theater
- Miscellaneous Programming
Elkhart County Symphony
- Miscellaneous Programming
Regina and Marcus Ellison
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Everwise Credit Union
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Angie and Phil Faccenda
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Family Dental Health
- Miscellaneous Programming
Family of Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Dr. E. Michael Feltman
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Fenner Homes, Inc.
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Fettig Family Foundation
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Ann and John Firth
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Fischoff National Chamber Music Association
- Miscellaneous Programming
Dan Fitzpatrick
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Mary and Jay Flaherty
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Joyce and Roger Foley
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Rick Steves
Foley & Murphy
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Franky's Tacos
- Women's Programming
Jody and Mike Freid
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Andre Gammage
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Garatoni-Smith Family Foundation
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
The Gates Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Lisa and Steve Gerber
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Jacob German
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Maggie Gibney and Jacob McLein
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Girls on the Run
- Miscellaneous Programming
Maggie and Steve Goldberg
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Goshen College Music Center
- Local Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
Graham Family
- Legends: Bill Sexton
James and Carol Groves
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Alfred J. Guillame, Jr. and Melanie Smith-Guillame
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Gurley Leep Automotive Family
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Gymnastics Michiana
- Children's Programming
Rosemarie Harris
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Hayes Towers
- Better Homes: The Play
- Black History Month 2025
- Children's Programming
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Heart of the Warrior Fund - Larry Davis
- Children's Programming
Jennifer and Fred Helmen
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Debbie and Rich Hill
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Hollis E. Hughes, Jr.
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Holy Cross Village
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Howard Performing Arts Center
- Prime Time Programming
Yolanda and Isaac Hunt
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
IBEW Local 153
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Impower Center, Inc.
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Marybeth Inabnit
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Sesame Street
Indiana Dinosaur Museum
- Walking with Dinosaurs
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
Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of St. Joseph County
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Ironhand Wine Bar
- Miscellaneous Programming
Ivy Tech Foundation
- Miscellaneous Programming
Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Miscellaneous Programming
Calvin Johnson, State Farm Agent
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Jay Jordan
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Judd Leighton Foundation, Inc.
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Judee's
- Economic Outlook
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- Women's Programming
Matthew Kahn and Janine Felder-Kahn
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Chris and Lorrain Karam
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Kurt and Linda Keigley
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel

Marijo and Kevin Kelly
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Kil Architecture
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Kingdom Christian Center - Pastor Canneth Lee
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Jonathan and Jessica Kitchens
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Koontz Wagner Construction Services
- Black History Month 2025
Kosciusko County Community Foundation
- Education Counts Michiana
Andy and Joy Kostielney
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Laborer's Local #645
- Black History Month 2025
- 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
Mike Leep, Sr.
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Leeper Park Art Fair
- Prime Time Programming
Lexington House
- Miscellaneous Programming
Logan Community Resources
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
Steve and Peg Luecke
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Lush Lighting Inc.
- Miscellaneous Programming
Don and Joan Lyons
- Legends: Loren and Lowell Hamel
Kathy Malone Beeler and Brian Regan
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Sara Marcus
- Children's Programming
Martin Luther King Committee
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Mary F. McAfee
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Ted and Tracy McCourtney
- Legends: Bill Sexton
McDonald Physical Therapy
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Vicki McIntire and Charlie Hayes
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Mex Express
- Prime Time Programming
Michiana Antique Mall
- Miscellaneous Programming
Michiana Eye Center
- Miscellaneous Programming
Mid-City Supply
- This Old House
Ken Milani
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Bishop Eddie Miller and Family
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
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
Montessori Academy Edison Lakes
- Children's Programming
Rafael Morton
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Libby Mountsier and Larry M. Davis
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Crescent Muhammad
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Carmi and Chris Murphy
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Musical Arts Indiana
- Miscellaneous Programming
National Coalition of 100 Black Women - South Bend Chapter
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Navarre Hospitality Group
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Kathleen and Mark Neal
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Sharon and Chuck Nelson
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
State Senator David Niezgodski
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Niles Renaissance Faire
- Miscellaneous Programming
Ninja Golf!
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Children's Programming
Northern Indiana Hearing Center
- Antiques Roadshow
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Notre Dame Federal Credit Union
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Mary Pat and Dick Nussbaum
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Omni Pro Services
- Prime Time Programming
PNC Bank
- Economic Outlook
PNC Grow Up Great
- PBS Kids
Peacock & Company
- Miscellaneous Programming
Pfeifer, Morgan & Stesiak
- Amanpour on PBS
- Austin City Limits
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- PBS News Hour
- Prime Time Miscellaneous
Barb and John Phair
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Maurice Phillips
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and Four Winds
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Potawatomi Zoological Society
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
Alma and Bill Powell
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Project Impact - South Bend, Inc.
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
- Prime Time Programming
Sheriff Bill Redman
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
River Bend Hose Specialty
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
- This Old House
River Front Forge
- Miscellaneous Programming
Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Miscellaneous Programming
Chief Scott Ruszkowski
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Sue and Pat Ruszkowski
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Lorrie and Bill Schmuhl
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Shakespeare at Notre Dame
- Miscellaneous Programming
Silver Star Leather
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
South Bend Children's Dentistry
- Children's Programming
South Bend City Clerk & Common Council
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
South Bend Civic Theatre
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend Common Council & City Clerk Bianca Tirado
- Legends: Bill Sexton
South Bend Community School Corporation
- Echoes of the Great Migration
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
South Bend Cubs
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
- Prime Time Programming
South Bend Heritage Foundation
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Miscellaneous Programming
South Bend Human Rights Commission
- Miscellaneous 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
Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra
- Miscellaneous Programming
St. Joseph County Democratic Party
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
St. Joseph Valley Building and Construction Trades
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
St. Peter's Lodge #31 F&AM
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Kelly and Brian Stanley & Mary Jane Stanley
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Steel Warehouse
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Stitch 'n Time Fabrics
- Quilting Programs
- Sewing Programs
Joey and Kurt Stiver
- Children's Programming
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Daniel and Katie Storino
- Legends: Bill Sexton
John and Claire Storino
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Tristh and Don Storino
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Mary J. Sullivan
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
The History Museum
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Miscellaneous Programming
The Lauber Kitchen and Bar
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
The Music Village
- Children's Programming
- Miscellaneous Programming
The PC Doctor
- Business Programming
The Rex and Alice A. Martin Foundation
- Dinner & a Book
THK Law, LLP
- Economic Outlook
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Dr. and Mrs. Scott and Ann-Marie Thomas
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Tire Rack
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Tolson Center
- Black History Month 2025
Brad and Katie Toothaker
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Treat's Squire Shop
- Miscellaneous Programming
Tri-State Maintenance
- Business Programming
- News Programming
United Youth Theatre
- Prime Time Programming
University of Notre Dame
- Black History Month 2025
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
- Legends: Bill Sexton
Robert and Debra Urbanski
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Van Horne Jewelers
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
Venues Parks and Arts of Community Investment
- Echoes of Great Migration
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
Karen White
- Legends: Lynn Coleman
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)
Berrien Community 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.
Marshall County Community Foundation
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.