You’re late for work, the caffeine hasn’t quite kicked in yet, and your morning dose of NPR is gently waking your brain up on the car radio. Or perhaps it’s the end of the day and you were too busy to read the papers, so you tune in for the radio news on the hour. At some point you stop to wonder, who are the faces behind the voices?

Vineyard NPR listeners came out to the local affiliate WCAI pub night at Offshore Ale in Oak Bluffs last Thursday to meet the people behind news reports from the likes of Mindy Todd, Steve Junker, Dan Tritle and Naomi Arenberg. WCAI is offering a series of pub nights across the Cape and Islands, most recently in Orleans and Mattapoisett.

Some were surprised to find who sits behind the microphones at the Woods Hole station, but most people were there to simply show their support for the station.

“I just want to say I’m a huge fan of your show,” one listener said to The Point host Mindy Todd.

“You narrate my drive to work, it’s so nice to put a face to the voice,” another said.

“It’s great to get out and meet the listeners and hob-knob a little, listen to their ideas and thoughts,” Ms. Todd said. “Sometimes there are compliments and sometimes there are complaints, but it’s great to get to connect to them so far there’s been tremendous crowd support and extraordinary enthusiasm [about the programming]. It’s wonderful.”

This coming fall will be Ms. Todd’s 10th year hosting and producing The Point.

Station director John Voci told listeners to expect a stronger signal up-Island in the next year as the station plans to expand the transmitter (and their listening audience). Mr. Voci asked Islanders to support the station’s efforts when WCAI goes before the Tisbury zoning board of appeals. WCAI uses WMVY to broadcast.

But even more critical for NPR, Mr. Voci said, is listeners’ support of national programming. Last week’s pub night came in the midst of a national debate over NPR as its chief executive Vivian Schiller stepped down and Congress debated cutting all funding to the radio news service.

Mr. Voci urged Vineyarders to call senators John Kerry and Scott Brown with their feelings on the proposed cuts.

“What’s transpired has been very unfortunate, especially the timing of it given the debate in Congress,” Mr. Voci said. “But this is an audience who believes in what we do. They need to express that to our senators and let them know how they feel. It’s a difficult time, everyone’s anxious.”

Ms. Todd said she’s confident everything will work out.

“There’s a lot of energizing going on, but we’re moving forward,” she said.