This Month's
WETA Focus

July 2009

Each July, WETA and Capital Concerts partner to bring to the nation a wonderful Washington tradition: the live Independence Day concert A Capitol Fourth, featuring a host of entertainment icons performing on stage on the West Lawn of the Capitol.

This enormously popular annual broadcast, always among the most-watched programs of the year around the country on public television, could not take place, however, without the vital support of corporate underwriters. Chief among them is The Boeing Company, now in its third year of sponsorship of A Capitol Fourth.

For their generous ongoing support, we are very thankful to Boeing, a longtime friend of WETA and public broadcasting that has underwritten WETA’s weekly public affairs production Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal for nearly four years — and has additionally funded productions such as the 2008 film Medal of Honor and Operation Homecoming, a film in the recent America at a Crossroads series.

We are grateful to all of our other corporate partners
for their instrumental role in bringing to life the high quality productions that you enjoy each time you tune
in to a WETA television and radio broadcast. Thank you — our members — as well for your vital contributions in support of WETA’s programs, broadcasts and services.

Sharon Percy Rockefeller
President and CEO
WETA Public Broadcasting