WSTC (1400
kHz) is a
public
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AM radio
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station in
Stamford, Connecticut
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. It serves the Stamford-
Norwalk area with a non-commercial, listener-supported
news/talk radio format
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,
simulcast with co-owned
WSHU 1260 AM Westport, Connecticut. WSTC is owned by
Sacred Heart University.
Programming on WSTC and WSHU includes
NPR shows ''
Morning Edition
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'', ''
All Things Considered
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'', ''
Fresh Air with Terry Gross'' and ''
1A''. A local staff supplies Connecticut news updates.
History
The station
signed on the air on . The
call sign
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was WSRR. From the 1950s through the 80s, it was a
full service,
middle of the road station, featuring popular adult music with local news and sports. In 1947, it added an FM station, WSTC-FM (now
WARW).
WSTC was sold by
Cox Radio, Inc. in 2011 and was initially operated by Sacred Heart via a
local marketing agreement (LMA). Prior to 2011, WSTC and
WNLK 1350 AM in
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The city, part of the New York metropolitan area, New York Metropolitan Area, is the List of municipalities of Connecticut by population, sixth-most populous city in Connecticut ...
simulcast a commercial
news/talk format.
On January 25, 2016, WSTC dropped its public radio simulcast with
WSHU 1260 AM and went
silent. It returned to the air on June 1, 2016, with a format of
adult standards with some talk shows. That format lasted only a little more than a year.
On July 10, 2017, WSTC returned to a simulcast of NPR news/talk-formatted WSHU 1260 AM Westport.
WSHU Reclaims WSTC Operations
Radioinsight - July 10, 2017
References
External links
* ( Guide to reading History Cards)
1941 establishments in Connecticut
Mass media in Stamford, Connecticut
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1941
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