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LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS New This Month👉Downtown Dialogue with St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership. 👉Clearwater Jazz Holiday Oct. 15-18. Get tickets here.👉Savor St. Pete returns Nov. 6-7. 👉 The Florida Orchestra preview of the 2026-2027 season with Erik Shinn.@The Coliseum. 👉Music Scene with Chris Botti, headlining 10/15 @ClearwaterJazzHoliday. 👉 James Museum new exhibit preview! 👉Soundscapes with Dominco Pontoreiro & Victor Huls. 👉Imagine Museum exhibit/events preview with David Flatt. The Straz Center’s Patel Conservatory season and new leader, Douglas Love Ramos. 👉Bryan Hughes new holiday CD is coming. He and The Crew at Suncoast Jazz Festival! 
GO RAYS! Tune in for Rays Baseball Coverage on RadioStPete Online Channel 2 on RadioStPete.com Thursday Game 3 1pm Friday Game 4 3-5pm
Radio St. Pete is more than a radio station—we’re part of the community! Over the coming months, you’ll find Radio St. Pete out and about across St. Petersburg, bringing our microphones, local music and community storytelling to the places where our city comes together. In addition to the events below, we’re previewing and reporting from Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Suncoast Jazz Featival, St. Petersburg Grand Prix, Heritage Village, St. Petersburg Museum of History, and other local events, galleries and bookstores!
Oct. 17 — Creative Clay Good Folk Fest with Betty Fox 
St. Pete Shuffle
Oct. 25 — Halloween on Central in the The EDGE District of St. Petersburg Central Avenue
Nov. 8 –CONA St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Showdown St.Pete Shuffle
November 13– St Pete Run Fest
Nov. 14-15 — Booker Creek Arts Festival The EDGE District of St. Petersburg
Dec. 9 — The Petty Experience Bayboro Brewing | 7–9 PM A Radio St. Pete fundraiser featuring two hours of the music of Tom Petty.
Feb. 20, 2027 — Localtopia Williams Park | 10 AM–5 PM Mar. 3, 2027 — David Basse Jazz Trio Thrive DTSP | 6–8 PM 
Mar. 13, 2027 — Do Good Day Ferg’s | 11 AM–2 PMWe’re proud to be Where Local Music & Community Conversations Live and to be a community partner throughout St. Petersburg.
Download the free RadioStPete app! Android https://bit.ly/3K0jAvO Apple https://apple.co/46f8B9e Easy to search the podcasts/interviews, hear your favorite hosts and local musicians! TUNE IN anytime, anywhere to 6,000+ songs, 1,500 musicians plus 10,900+ podcasts & interviews! 
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Let’s Go Guide https://bit.ly/3UP2oM3 LET’S GO GUIDE 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 7C, Bayboro Brewing, Noisemakers, Baycare Sound, The Mahaffey Ruth Eckerd, The Straz, and films atGreen Light Cinema with jazz in the Lounge
WHERE LOCAL MUSIC LIVES Live Studio Sessions! 
The Songwriters Hour with L.A. Moore 2nd Saturday Oct. 17 @1pm. Have a short music video to share on our Facebook? Want to play on the Songwriters Hour or Common Chords? email J music@radiostpete.com
Florida Folk Show with Pete Gallagher – Saturday 10/17 10am-noon! Famous blues diva Betty Fox will stop into the Radio St Pete Florida Folk Show on Saturday 10 am in preparation for her afternoon benefit bluesy concert for Creative Clay, downtown St. Petersburg. In the second half of the show we welcome Patrick Doyle, one of Florida’s top banjo players and a member of the fabulous St. Pete bluegrass band, the Wandering Hours (who knows, maybe some of the band will also show up at Radio St Pete’s Thrive Studio) with hosts Pete Gallagher, Tim Valle & John McEuen! Tune it to www.radiostpete.com and watch live Video/Audio on the Facebook page Florida Folk Show Radio St Pete. We can’t take phone calls, but Face Book chats will work just fine!
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.
RADIO ST PETE NEWS Thanks to all who voted for Best of The Bay Creative Loafing awards 2026! RadioStPete took 2nd place as a finalist for Best Radio Station, our 3rd award-winning year! Congrats to Charlie Souza for his Best Music Show finalist award and all the podcasters and guests who also won awards including Paul Wilborn and Bryan Hughes and The Crew.
February 12th City Council meeting, Mayor Ken Welch officially proclaimed March 4th as Radio St Pete Day in St. Petersburg 
Tune in to LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS Monday-Saturday noon-1:30 (sometimes 2) 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 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.
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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 St. Pete College, 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.
when it returns this fall.
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!
