WSHU Public Radio

WSHU Public Radio is an NPR-affiliated public radio group owned by Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, serving Connecticut and Long Island with local news, NPR programming and classical music. It is the home of Sunday Baroque.

WSHU Public Radio is a group of public radio stations owned and operated by Sacred Heart University, with its broadcast studios on the university's campus at 5151 Park Avenue in Fairfield, Connecticut. The flagship, WSHU-FM 91.1, went on the air on January 11, 1965. The stations are NPR affiliates and serve southern Connecticut and Long Island, New York.

WSHU runs three program services. News and Classical Music airs on WSHU-FM 91.1 in Fairfield, with translators in Stamford, Connecticut and Ridge, New York. News and Talk airs on WSUF 89.9 FM on eastern Long Island, WSHU 1260 AM in Westport, WSTC 1400 AM in Stamford and WYBC 1340 AM in New Haven, along with FM translators in Selden, New York and Northford, Danbury and Derby, Connecticut. An all classical stream is heard on WSUF HD2 and 107.5 FM in Noyack, New York. Listeners also stream the services online, on the WSHU app and on smart speakers.

The WSHU newsroom covers Connecticut from Fairfield and Long Island from a bureau there, and the station takes part in the New England News Collaborative. WSHU produces the nationally distributed classical program Sunday Baroque and podcasts including Higher Ground, a climate series recognized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Off the Path; and Still Newtown, which was nominated for a Peabody Award. The Press Club of Long Island has named WSHU its Best Radio News Station.

Staff work in news, hosting and production, music programming, digital editing, engineering, membership and individual giving, corporate sponsorship and traffic, and administration; recent hires include a morning host and a traffic associate. WSHU staff are employees of Sacred Heart University, and openings are posted on the university's employment site. The station also hosts student interns and paid news fellows from Sacred Heart and other universities.

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