City | Stamford, Connecticut |
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Broadcast area | Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut |
Frequency | 1400 kHz |
First air date | September 18, 1941 (as WSRR) |
Format | Public radio (WSHU (AM) simulcast) |
Power | 780 watts unlimited |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 10660 |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°2′49″N 73°31′36″W / 41.04694°N 73.52667°W |
Callsign meaning | Stamford Town Center, Stamford, CT (reversed) |
Former callsigns | WSRR (1941–1946) |
Affiliations | NPR |
Owner | Sacred Heart University |
Sister stations | WNLK, WSHU, WSHU-FM |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wshu |
WSTC (1400 AM) is a radio station licensed to Stamford, Connecticut and serving the Stamford-Norwalk area with public radio and NPR. The station is owned by Sacred Heart University, after being sold by Cox Radio, Inc. in 2011 and initially operated by Sacred Heart via a local marketing agreement; prior to 2011, WSTC and WNLK simulcast a commercial news/talk format. On January 25, 2016 dropped its simulcast with WSHU (1260 AM) and went silent, and then returned to the air on June 1, 2016 with an adult standards/talk format.
On July 10, WSTC switched to a simulcast of NPR news/talk-formatted WSHU 1260 AM Westport.