WDET 101.9 FM is Detroit's public radio station and NPR member station, licensed to Wayne State University, with local news, current affairs and music programming for southeast Michigan.
WDET 101.9 FM is Detroit's public radio station and an NPR member station. Its studios are in Midtown Detroit on the Wayne State University campus, and the station is a community service of Wayne State University, which has held its license since 1952. The United Auto Workers founded the station in 1948.
WDET produces more than 60 hours of original local programming each week alongside national programs from NPR and other partners, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Its local lineup includes the daily news and public affairs program The Metro, the Detroit Evening Report, and music programs such as In the Groove and Ann Delisi's Essential Music, and the station describes itself as Detroit's most active promoter of local music. It also produces events and community initiatives, and carries the Detroit Radio Information Service, a reading service for people with visual impairments, on a subcarrier.
The station's signal covers southeast Michigan and reaches into northwest Ohio and southwest Ontario. WDET reaches more than 200,000 listeners each week on air, online at wdet.org and through its mobile app, and more than half of its annual operating revenue comes directly from listeners. The Michigan Association of Broadcasters named WDET its Public Radio Station of the Year in 2021 and 2022.
WDET staff are Wayne State University employees, and the station's full-time openings are posted on the university's hiring system under department H8703-WDET. The station hires for news and current affairs, digital content, production, membership, underwriting and administration roles, and runs a paid internship program covering news, audio production, digital, marketing, events, membership, sales and business.
