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3 nationally syndicated radio programs that take music from any artist, anywhere. The exact submission door for each and the rules it posts, read off the...
Every other page here is organised by place, because a station serves one. That is why an artist in a small market can open a sheet and find two stations: it is the truth, and the truth is sometimes small. A nationally syndicated program is the other shape. It is carried on hundreds of signals at once, and the submission door is identical whether you are in Atlanta or Auckland. Nothing about your address narrows it.
Read the rules below before you send anything, because they contradict each other on purpose. NPR wants a link to a page where the song can be heard and explicitly refuses attached MP3s. Most college radio wants the opposite, the file attached, because a music director needs something they can load into playout today. WoodSongs refuses email altogether and wants an envelope at a PO box. One package sent to all three fails at two of them, and nobody writes back to explain which.
This list is short and it will stay short. A program appears here only once it publishes a submission route on its own page, and the link under each row goes to that page so you can check us. Programs that are famous but publish nothing are absent rather than guessed at.
NPR nationally, plus the podcast
Subject line: Please consider my music. One song only, and a LINK to a page where it can be heard, not an attached MP3. Include your contact details. They do not confirm receipt and they ask you not to follow up.
Over 110 public radio stations, two hours daily
Send a link to a digital download rather than the files themselves. They will accept a CD by post and say plainly they prefer downloads. Ambient, electronic, world and contemporary instrumental.
Syndicated radio and public television
Post only, and they are emphatic: no email pitches, no MP3 attachments, no links, no Facebook, and do not pitch the host directly. Include a brief letter. Two artist slots a week, four songs of about three and a half minutes each, performed live in a theatre.
Pick your sound and region on Rotation and each of these stations shows its real submission contact and the exact rules it posts: clean edit, WAV, form or mail. Checked by hand and kept current. No station here paid to be listed.
Open my sheet →Radio is the free half, and it stays that way. Every station here is free to reach and no station ever pays to be listed. The Doors is the other half: 100 verified places that are not radio, sync libraries, music supervisors, festivals, contests, live sessions and the music press, 43 of which can actually pay an artist. It also lists the 162 we opened and refused, with the reason each one failed, because most lists of this kind are stale and the rejections are the part nobody else will show you. $9.99, the 2026 Q3 edition →
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