>> Hi. I'm Eric Greiling, director of Friends of PBS
Wisconsin. You count on PBS NewsHour to bring you
thoughtful, balanced coverage of the world news of the national
news. And just like you count on PBS NewsHour, we count on you
and your support to continue to bring you this news. This news
that is calm, rational, informative, a clear alternative
in this critical election year. You know that you can rely upon
this news. You know that you're getting a balanced coverage. You
know that you're getting viewpoints that are are fair and
cover the spectrum of the information that you need to be
able to make decisions, to be able to understand the world. We
count on you for your support, to be able to bring this to you,
to bring you also "Here and Now our local coverage of state
issues that you aren't going to find on any other channel. Your
support is so important and you can show us that support. Become
a member today by going online to pbswisconsin.org. Or
giving us a call at 1-800-236-3636.
of staff here at PBS Wisconsin. And when you make your gift
today, we have some wonderful ways to say thank you at the $10
a month level, we have a clear drinking glass with a PBS retro
logo on it. At the $20 a month level, we have the PBS NewsHour,
Can Cooler Tote, and at the $25 a month level, you'll receive
both the drinking Glass and the Cooler tote. Go online to
pbswisconsin.org or call. 1-800-236-3636.
member of the staff here at PBS Wisconsin PBS NewsHour reaches
the highest level of journalistic integrity integrity
because it's viewer supported. So because of you, because of
your support and your gifts, you make this possible. And so
what's one of the easiest ways for you to become a member? It's
as a sustainer. So if you're already a sustainer, we thank
you so much for your ongoing and generous support of PBS
Wisconsin and NewsHour. If you'd like to become a sustainer this
evening, it's a wonderful opportunity to give month over
month with your credit card or with your checking account. It
makes it easy for you. Give us a call at 1-800-236-3636, or visit
us online at pbswisconsin.org. It's easy enough to just choose
your your level, whatever is comfortable for you as a gift
each month, month over month until you tell us to stop. It
makes it really, really simple and it ensures that programs
like PBS NewsHour and all of the programs that you come to rely
on that are so important for you will go on.
>> 1-800-236-3636
>> Thank you. Aimee. While state and federal funding from
government sources is an important part of our budget,
the most important part of our budget is membership gifts from
viewers like you that makes up the largest source of our
revenue and allows us to keep this programing coming to you.
This kind of programing that you value independendent,
thoughtful journalism. It's at the end of our fiscal year and
we're planning for next year. Your membership gift now, your
sustaining gift, like Amy was talking about, will really make
a difference in how we're able to make our plans, how we're
able to budget for the future the year ahead and allow us to
continue to bring you this great programing. We've got a lot of
great ways to say thank you to you. Katie's been telling you
about some special premiums when you make a pledge during PBS
NewsHour right now, but at all of our giving levels, Airwaves
magazine, our monthly viewer guide, is available to you with
your membership gift. Give us a call at 1-800-236-3636. Go
online right now to pbswisconsin.org. Let us know
that this kind of journalism matters to you. Let us know that
you value this kind of reporting Give us a call. 1-800-236-3636.
>> And just a reminder, we do have some great ways to say
thank you to you this evening at the $10 a month level, we have
the clear drinking glass with the PBS retro logo at the $20 a
month level, we have the PBS NewsHour, Can Cooler Tote, and
at the $25 a month level, we have both the drinking glass and
the cooler tote. If you've been watching PBS NewsHour for a long
time and haven't made a gift yet, today is the perfect day to
do it. Go online to pbswisconsin.org or call
1-800-236-3636. >> We know you're watching PBS
NewsHour. We know how important that is to you. If you also like
to watch on the big streaming apps, be sure to download PBS,
the PBS app. It's a great way to watch programs you may have
missed, or to stream PBS Wisconsin live. And if you
decide to become a member at any of the levels that we're talking
about this evening and in addition to the wonderful gifts
that Katie is sharing with you, the Passport is a wonderful way
to expand your viewing capacity. There's lots and lots of
programs that that aren't even viewable on broadcast, but you
can access through PBS, Passport . So consider making a gift. Let
us thank you in so many ways, either through, Passport or some
of the thank you gifts this evening at any level. We are so
grateful for your support making programs like PBS NewsHour
possible again, you can become a member by going online at PBS
Wisconsin Org or calling our volunteers at 1-800-236-3636.
>> Tonight's PBS NewsHour is coming to you because over
70,000 families across Wisconsin
have said this is important to me. I want to be a member. I
want to make sure that this kind of television is here, that this
kind of reporting is valuable to me, and I want to be able to
continue to watch it. And I want to make it available to my
community as well. If you have the ability to make a larger
gift, now would be a great time to make us a call. Go online and
say, I really like to support you at this level. If you are
ready to make a gift at any level, we'd welcome your
membership. Join those 70 other 70,000 other families across the
state. Come with us and become a member of PBS Wisconsin and say
this kind of programing is really important to us. We're
running out of time. We're about to go back to NewsHour. There's
a QR code on your screen. If you want to just use your cameras,
your phone's camera app, to capture that QR code, that's a
great way to be able to make your gift. You can also give us
a call at 1-800-236-3636. Thank you for watching