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Click here (June 10 last date vote) to nominate Sunshine 96.7 FM & RadioStPete.com for Best of the Bay BEST RADIO STATION 2026! Thanks to your continued incredible  support, Sunshine 96.7FM and RadioStPete.com were honored as Best Radio Station in 2025, finalist 2024! 💛 Radio St. Pete 6/16 SUNSHINE SUMMER JAM with the Mad Beach Band at The Palladium is sold out!  Tune in Sun. 6/14-Monday 6/15 and enjoy Music Director JKolb and friends concerts live from our Thrive DTSP radio studio. We’ll feature singers/songwriters  to help us raise money to support YOUR community radio station Sunshine 96.7 FM RadioStPete! DONATE HERE please to our Sunshine Summer Campaign!

Sunday 1pm Judy Haines , 1:30 David Warren, 2 Michele McAteer, 2:30 Joe Milligan, 3 Tanner Boyle, 3:30 Moore/Allen, 4 Sandy Atkinson and 4:30 TBD Monday noon Interviews 1pm Tony Amador, 1:30 Jane Fallon, 2 Steve Isaac, 3 Bud Good, 3:30 Brittney Baldwin, 4 Charity Jones, 4:30 Tommy and Mimi.

NEW! Download the free RadioStPete app from your Android or i-Phone Play Store. Easy to search the podcasts/interviews, hear your favorite hosts and local musicians!  LISTEN anytime, anywhere to 6,000+ songs, 1,500 musicians plus 10,600+ podcasts & interviews!  🎼Program Guide https://bit.ly/3JnWnmI 🎤Podcasts/Interviews https://bit.ly/3Jx1mla 🥰Let’s Go Guide https://bit.ly/3UP2oM3

JUNE FUN!  Check our Let’s Go Guide for Tampa Bay fun, from downtown St. Petersburg to the beaches and beyond. Listen to  Weekend with Wiser for festivals, arts markets, celebrations, concerts and more. Explore museums – Imagine Museum, MFA, The Dali , Great Explorations,  James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art, trolley tours from the  St. Petersburg Museum of History; concerts  (The Florida Orchestra, concerts at the Mahaffey  Ruth Eckerd, Straz, Beacon, freeFall Theater “Bash of the Titans” June 12-August 2 & more @ The Palladium), and films at Green Light Cinema with jazz in the Lounge

👉WHERE LOCAL MUSIC LIVES 👉Songwriter’s Hour with L.A. Moore June 13 @1pm features Todd Murphy and Wendell Thorn.  👉NEW HOST! On June 10, The Moondog Radio Show debuts with Johnny Moondog Wednesday 9-10pm before Concrete Peninsula.  👉Want to play on the Songwriters Hour or Common Chords? email J  music@radiostpete.com

🎶 Saturday June 13 10am-noon! Radio St Pete welcomes two extra special musical legacy acts:  Incredible VGO , Florida Music’s kingpin multi-instrumentalist, who will open the show , followed by Mad Beach Band superstars singer/songwriter Pete Merrigan, and harmonica-ludicrous T.C. Carr in a warmup for the reunion of the entire Mad Beach Band from 50 years ago yesteryear.   Pete and TC will join guitar whiz Lenny Austin, bass monster Vinnie Seplesky and  singer/songwriter/ tolltaker on the Skyway Bridge Pete Shackett.  🎶 Florida Folk Show Radio St Pete! 🎶    🎧 Three ways to catch the show live:  📻Tune in locally at 96.7 FM 🌍 Listen online RadioStPete.com  📱 Watch FB Live Florida Folk Show.

MUSIC HOSTS Join singer & show host Annamarie Smith-Butz 🕓 Monday at 4pm ET on 🌐 www.radiostpete.com or on air at 📻 Radio St. Pete • Sunshine 96.7 FM for an hour of music by women who write, sing, and tell the truth about love — the complicated, the embodied, and the quietly brave. Catch talented hubby & show host Wolf Smith-Butz “Wolf in the Morning” Monday-Friday.

RadioStPete is YOUR station. 🎶✨ We bring you the music, stories, and voices of St. Pete 24/7—free to everyone, everywhere. It’s your support that keeps us on air and online. Even $5 a month makes all the difference in keeping local radio alive. Help RadioStPete continue to connect, inspire, and shine for our community. Donate here.

At the February 12th City Council meeting, Mayor Ken Welch officially proclaimed March 4th as Radio St Pete Day in St. Petersburg 🙌 We’re honored to be recognized by the City for amplifying local voices, music, arts, and community every day. 👉Help us amplify local music & community conversations; please donate or become a member

Tune in to LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS Monday-Saturday noon-1:230 for local news, podcasts, interviews and more. We talk to Tampa Bay artists, musicians, non-profit and government leaders, interesting community activists and neighbors. We preview events, festivals and educational symposiums. TUNE IN to THE IDEA HUB  Passion Struck with John Miles ignites your mind with breathtaking interviews & insights Monday 5:10pm.  Craig Pittman Welcome to Florida  Saturday noon is both information and hilarous.  Keep the Faith with Beth Gelman inspires us. LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS expands to Sunday featuring 12:10 pm “ABC This Week” (repeats on St. Pete Sounds 2:05 pm); 1:05 Away With Words.  Saturday 8:10am, tune in to ABC Radio’s  Start Here Weekend with host Brad Mielke. 

LISTEN anytime to your favorite local podcasts & interviews! Click here to view all of our podcasts and search by the person or name of show. Check out the Program Guide  https://radiostpete.com/#program-guide for local music, sports and syndicated shows! Learn more about our local hosts, interviews & special series here. Keep up on news and events in St. Petersburg here.

STAY IN TOUCH Sign up for our free newsletter. Email  info@radiostpete.com  Read past newsletters: December 2024; January, February, March, April  Follow us on Facebook! Be the 1st to know about what’s happening!

FEATURED PROGRAMS LISTEN UP anytime, anywhere to our online, on-air magazine in our podcast archive for audio/blogs. Plan your fun with the LET’S GO GUIDE here.  What’s happening from downtown St. Pete to the beaches…and beyond!

WEEKLY on LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS: Tune in to Pet Tips,    Good Deeds, Live Life Better, local university news from Eckerd College & USF St. Pete Bulls By the Bay ,  Arts Alive with Bill DeYoung , Frugal Friends w/Jill Sirianni & Jen Smith, Dan Hirshberg’s Play Ball, Beauty & The Burg with Cindy Stovall, Beach Briefs with TBCC Charlie Justice and more.

THEATER, MUSIC, FILM  Stephen Riordan’s Big Broadway Energy Saturday 4pm & Sunday 5pm and his podcasts.  2025 and 2026 Sunscreen Film Festival interviews with actors, directors & producers! BOOK TALK with Dominic Howarth of Book + Bottle, Margo Hammond’s interviews and  MUSIC SCENE interviews. 

MUSEUMS & ART

Welcome to Cindy Stovall, host of Beauty & The Burg! Catch a Historically St. Pete w/ Rui Farias , executive editor St. Petersburg Museum of History Monday podcast noon-1:30.  Listen to all of his podcasts here. Learn more about Florida in our new America 250 podcast series One Place, Many Voices – Pinellas County here and on the Florida Humanities FORUM Magazine interviews.

AUTHORS & INSPIRATION BOOK TALK with Dominic Howarth of Book + Bottle, Margo Hammond’s interviews and more.  Kerry Kriseman’s writing tips are inspirational in Making Memoir Magic! Storytime with Janet Keeler. Randy Wayne White, Doc Ford series author! Mystery writer Lisa Unger!

MUSIC SHOW HOSTS Monday 10pm Soundscapes hosted by Domenico Pontoriero every Monday 10PM features locally produced instrumental music + focuses focus on relaxing instrumental music and NEW is his pre-show podcast. Catch THE CLASSICAL SCENE with Dr. Victor Minke Huls, Associate Principal Cellist of The Florida Orchestra. 
Twice a month on Monday during Lunchtime Conversations, Victor invites a friend from the Tampa Bay classical music community to discuss their backgrounds and upcoming performances, and listen to interesting musical selections

Florida Folk Show Saturday live 10-noon w/Pete Gallagher, Tim Valle & posse and musical guests. Plus special guests talking about environmental issues. In St. Pete, tune in to  96.7 FM or online www.radiostpete.com  worldwide and live audio/VIDEO at the Facebook page Florida Folk Show Radio St Pete

HANG OUT with RSP @ LOCAL EVENTS Joe Bourdow’s interviews with the annual luncheon hosted by Academy Prep of St. Petersburg awardees for Five Fabulous Females is inspiring! Meet Elise Minkoff Lauren Brigman

We had fun 3/29 at Do Good Day! Enjoy these  interviews with local non-profits and interviews from 5/9 Small Business Week’s Food Truck Rally hosted by The Greenhouse. 

 
RSP IN THE NEWS

EXPANDED COVERAGE As of May 1, Radio St. Pete will be broadcasting ABC News Radio audio programming during Lunchtime Conversations and the 8am and 5pm news programs as well as breaking news and special features. Read more.

MAY 2025  WLMX-LP St. Petersburg is now RadioStPete’s official FCC designated call sign. This change facilitates future audience measurement of our FM radio station.

September 2025  On 9/26 RadioStPete / Sunshine 96.7FM was honored to be recognized by Mayor Kenneth T. Welch and the City of St. Petersburg, Florida during the anniversary event for Hurricanes Helene & Milton. Our volunteer-run community station was highlighted for ensuring local voices stay on the air during storms, thanks to new backup power and emergency internet systems. Staying connected matters most when our community needs it.

ON TV General Manager Joe Bourdow appeared on FOX March 4 to talk with anchor Linda Hurtado about RadioStPete’s 1 year Studio Anniversary @Thrive DTSP in downtown St. Pete and the City of St. Petersburg Proclamation making March 5 “RadioStPete Day.” Watch here. 

RSP PHOTOS AROUND TOWN Enjoy the photo gallery from our March 5 Studio Anniversary Celebration.  See all our photo albums here.

AWARDS 2025 and 2024 Winner of Best of the Bay – Best Radio Station finalist Creative Loafing 2024, 2025!

Winner – Best Burger for Community Conscience Reporting from St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce.

MORE MEDIA COVERAGE Read about What’s Happening at RadioStPete in articles that appear in St. Pete Life Magazine, Northeast Journal and Tampa Bay Newspapers!