WNIT Receives Major Venture Grant
Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation celebrates fifty years on the air and looks forward to the future
For 50 years, WNIT has been Michiana’s home for public television, educational shows, and local content you won’t find anywhere else. In May, they celebrated this anniversary with the release of the new documentary, “From Signal to Story: 50 Years of WNIT Public Television.”
But the team at WNIT is interested in more than celebrating a successful past. They’re also busy planning a successful future, and a $150,000 Major Venture Grant from the Community Foundation is one of the many pieces that will help them get there.
The Foundation’s grant is part of an unprecedented $1.65 million investment in new equipment, only the third equipment campaign in their long history.
The upgrades will allow WNIT to run “smoother, easier, and more efficiently,” says Amanda Miller Kelley, Director of Development at WNIT.
The future of WNIT is local, and the station has plans to increase locally produced content. Equipment upgrades will get more teams into the field more often, and that means more stories from across Michiana.
All of this is cause for celebration far beyond the walls of WNIT’s South Bend studios.
“Public television belongs to all of us,” says Miller Kelley. “All of us.”