Matt Bingay
Executive Director and General ManagerMatt Bingay is the Executive Director and General Manager for WMRA and WEMC.
Matt began working for WMRA as a student at James Madison University in 1992. Except for a brief year at New Hampshire Public Radio in the mid 90's in Concord, Matt has spent the majority of his public radio career at WMRA. Matt took on the role of Executive Director in February 2017.
Over his 20+ years with the station, Matt has hosted every shift, produced numerous programs, assisted with national productions, hired and trained many producers and announcers, and works closely with every department at WMRA.
Matt is also an amateur guitarist, has played soccer since grade school, is always reading something (fiction and non-fiction), has a few marathons under his belt and loves living in the Shenandoah Valley.
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WMRA partnered with the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank for the first-ever Unity in Community Food and Fund Drive.Thank you to all WMRA listeners, and many… -
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As part of WMRA’s partnership with StoryCorps in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia, we’re sharing a conversation today between environmental… -
July 5, 2021 marks the first anniversary of Duke Energy and Dominion Energy’s decision to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In recognition of that… -
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