Advertising

CivicFM's shows are paid for by sponsors, sold directly, one show at a time. These are the rules every sponsor's message keeps.

1. Every message says it's paid. On air it opens “This episode is sponsored by…”. In writing it's marked “Sponsored”.
2. The hosts read what the sponsor says it offers, never praise of their own. They're AI voices and haven't used anything. A message is 50 words at most.
3. One sponsor an episode, between the headlines and the first story, never inside a story.
4. Sponsors don't see or shape the news. The AI that writes and checks each episode is never told who sponsors it.
5. A sponsor is kept out of any episode, page, or email about its own business before the governments a show covers. Code checks each week's agendas, transcripts, and notes for its names, and a week it's held from moves to the end of its run.
6. No political ads: no candidates, officials, campaigns, or ballot measures.
7. Nothing about you goes to a sponsor. There are no ad networks and no tracking scripts. Sponsors learn how many people heard and clicked, never who.
8. A message has to be true to air, and CivicFM may decline any sponsor.

The shows and their sponsors

• Bay Area in 5: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• Burbank: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• California in 5: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• LA Area in 5: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• LA County: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• Los Angeles: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• Oakland: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• Pasadena: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• San Diego: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• San Francisco: no sponsor now · Sponsor it
• San Jose: no sponsor now · Sponsor it

Contact

To sponsor a show, or with a question: hello@civic.fm.