Hear Us Now!
WEFT Community Radio is your independent, commercial-free radio station - powered by volunteers and sustained by listeners just like you.
Since 1981, WEFT has been committed to free speech, diversity, and local voices. We bring you original shows, independent news, local issues, unparalleled music, and local voices you won’t hear anywhere else.
Louder, Static-Free FM Radio Signal
Recent upgrades have improved our broadcasting quality, so you can enjoy WEFT with crystal-clear sound wherever you tune in - here in East Central Illinois on 90.1 FM or anywhere in the world with the WEFT App!
Support Community Radio
Our Fall 2025 Membership Drive kicks off Friday, September 19th and wraps up on Sunday, September 28th during our annual WEFT FEST celebration held on North Market Street in Downtown Champaign.
Your support keeps WEFT strong. Every gift helps us maintain equipment, train volunteers, host community events, and share new stories from around the area.
Here’s how you can help: Donate during our Fall Membership Drive—every dollar fuels free radio. Just click the “Donate Now” button.
Volunteer—share your time, skills, and passion.
Spread the word—invite friends and neighbors to tune in.
Join us at WEFT FEST 2025 on Sunday, September 28th from 2–6 p.m. on North Market Street right in front of the WEFT Studio and Seven Saints in Downtown Champaign.
WEFT FEST 2025
At WEFT FEST this year, bring your friends and family for our annual listener appreciation and birthday celebration! Enjoy live music from Kittens Incorporated, Mousepad the Band, Sass, and the K-Tels. Browse raffle prizes, pick up the latest WEFT merchandise including a special WEFT FEST 2025 t-shirt, shop local vendors, visit with community groups and organizations, and grab a slice of birthday cake as we celebrate the first 90.1 FM radio broadcast of WEFT (which happened way back on Friday, September 25, 1981)!
When you support WEFT, you invest in local, independent media (which has come under fire lately) and help keep our airwaves free and open for everyone. Click the DONATE NOW button and thank you for helping community radio thrive.
Click on the blue DONATE NOW button, or mail in the form on the back on the 2025 Fall Membership Drive letter and return to WEFT with your check or money order.
To learn more about volunteer opportunities, email: stationmanager@weft.org.
Listen Live!
WEFT's streaming partner is Broadcast Tool & Die. Click here if you want to listen to our stream online https://weft.broadcasttool.stream/stream.
While we continue to stream through our website at weft.org, you can also listen from your mobile device through the WEFT App. Our app is available through the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. It's a whole new way to WEFT!
You can download the free WEFT App for iPhone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weft-fm/id6723680095
For Android devices, down the free WEFT App from Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicmediaapps.weft
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Support WEFT 90.1 FM
You can use our Online Donation form to make a one-time or recurring donation to WEFT. Click on the Blue Donate Now button.
All year long WEFT guides you on a journey through independent music and public affairs programming. The volunteer hosts that curate and select WEFT's programs are community members - your friends and neighbors.
Thanks again for donating and supporting community radio here in East Central Illinois!
Donate by Mail
Print & fill out our printable donation form and include it with your check. Make checks payable to WEFT, and mail them to:
WEFT
P.O. Box 1223
Champaign, IL 61824
Vehicle Donation
Donating your car, truck, van, SUV, boat, motorcycle, ATV, RV, trailer or airplane has never been easier! Visit the Vehicle Donation portion of our Support page for more info.
You can give CARS (Charitable Adult Rides & Services) a call at 1-855-500-RIDE or go through their online donation process and designate WEFT as the non-profit beneficiary.
WEFT's Rotational Underwriters
- Bash Pepper Roofing
- Champaign Park District
- Cinema Gallery
- Common Ground Food Co-op
- Elliott Counseling Group
- Experience C-U
- Habitat for Humanity
- Krannert Center
- Live Action Games
- Chambana Eats
- Minuteman Press
- Plant Mode
- Urbana Arts & Culture
- That's The Cut Barbershop
- Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications
- The Canopy Club
- Toast to Taylor Street
- Urbana Acupuncture
Visit our Community Partners page for the complete list. Thanks to all of them for their support over the years. Please support WEFT and our Community Partners.
We recently revised our Community Partners Underwriting Package you can download both the Inside and Outside of the brochure.
Welcome to our newest Underwriters; Urbana Arts & Culture, Chambana Eats, Plant Mode, Toast to Taylor Street, and Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications
Contact our Community Partners Coordinator, at stationmanager@weft.org, or call WEFT at 217-359-9338 to get your business or non-profit started today.
Hometown Media Award AGAIN
WEFT 90.1 FM Community Radio has been awarded a Hometown Media Award in the Community Radio category for the second year in a row!
The Hometown Media Awards are presented by the Alliance for Community Media Foundation (Established in 1979). The awards program was developed to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs.
Congratulations to all the incredible WEFTIES!
Public Affairs Archives!
Most of your favorite Public Affairs shows have been archived on a weekly basis by WEFT's own volunteers. We have archives of some shows going back to 2015.
Go to our Public Affairs page to listen to shows such as Disability Beat, Higher Ground, News From Neptune and Radio Free Labor. WEFT also has archives of shows not currently being broadcast such as The Prairie Monk.
Media - Pics, Videos, Newsletters etc.
To see more, visit WEFT's Media Page
To view some videos, visit WEFT's Youtube Page
WEFT History and Info
You can read a short version of WEFT's history here
Interestingly back in 1937 the upstairs of WEFT's building 113 1/2 and Dave Monk's building 115 1/2 were a gambling establishment, the Turf Club aka Klemick's. Thanks to the Urbana Free Library Archives, here's a story about Champaign's Gambling Hotspots, the Turf Club was part of North Market Street's Gamblers Row
Joe Lex, was one of WEFT's Founders (and partly repsonsible for some of those vinyl records we have stored up in our attic). He recently dug up this little bit of WEFT History. Here's an early vision of what our Programming would be, Joe Lex - WEFT's 1981 Programming Vision
WEFT Video from the 90's Clips of many WEFTies who helped make WEFT what it is today. How many do you recognize?
Listen Live!
Listen to WEFT's live broadcast in your browser, choose TuneIn to take WEFT anywhere on your smartphone or use your preferred streaming player on your computer.
Listen On Demand!
Two Week Music Archives
Thanks to our partners at Spinitron many of our music shows will once again be archived
Go to our Spinitron Calendar page and click on any of the green colored shows. You'll be able to start an in-browser player.
Copyright restrictions require us to start all playbacks at the beginning of each show, and you can't jump forward or back. If you want to listen to part of the 2nd hour of the show, you have to wait till the player gets there.
Look for the in-browser player - click on the triangle to start playback.
Because of copyright restrictions music shows can only remain online for two weeks. They also can't be downloaded or podcast.
Antenna Video
In the spring of 2020 WEFT completed a project our volunteers had worked on for a couple years. Order a new antenna and get it installed on a new, taller tower. This video documents some of the project
thanks to Mark Niswander for the video
You can view this and other WEFT related videos on our Youtube Page