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You made us Creative Loafing’s 2025 Best Radio
Station! THANKS to YOU, we are again finalists for Best Radio Station! Please vote now !
Do you enjoy Radio St. Pete / Sunshine 96.7 FM amazing local music and community conversations that celebrate everything that makes St. Pete special? From the Grand Prix to Clearwater Jazz Holiday, we’ve got the scoop!Local coverage of the City of St. Petersburg key issues, mayoral forums, Tiger Bay speakers, Tampa Bay Times Spotlight series air on RSP! 100 + podcasters, 1,000 + guests, music interviews, Let’s Go guides and weekly audioblogs help you live life better and introduce you to new neighborhoods?Like hanging with us at Localtopia, Do Good Day, Halloween on Central and other events where we broadcast live, showcase music and interviews?Add a vote for your favorite Radio St. Pete shows in the Best Radio Show category. Our volunteer hosts deliver outstanding local programming weekly. Thank you for making us Best Radio Station in 2025. Let’s make it happen again in 2026! 
Weekend fun! Janis Joplin debuts Sept. 16 at American Stage. 
Program Guide https://bit.ly/3JnWnmI 
Podcasts/Interviews https://bit.ly/3Jx1mla 
Let’s Go Guide https://bit.ly/3UP2oM3
SUMMER FUN Check our Let’s Go Guide for Tampa Bay fun, from downtown St. Petersburg to the beaches and beyond. 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, The Straz, and films at Green Light Cinema with jazz in the Lounge
WHERE LOCAL MUSIC LIVES 
Common Chords Tuesday August 18 6 pm: Josh Plummer and Stefan Scheueremann. Stay tuned for future guests Want to play on the Songwriters Hour or Common Chords? email J music@radiostpete.com
Florida Folk Show with Pete Gallagher – Saturday August 15 10am-noon! Join hosts Pete Gallagher, producer Tim Valle, and Nitty Gritty John McEuen live from the Radio St Pete Downtown Thrive Studio for another great morning of folk music and conversation! We’re thrilled to welcome back Dean Johanesen of “South of the Bridge, FLA!”, one of the Florida Folk Show’s very first regular musical guests. We’ll also introduce Connecticut-born St. Pete resident, guitarist and songwriter Tom Grote in his first visit to the studio.Tune into the Florida Folk Show w/ Pete Gallagher this Saturday. Tune in to 96.7 FM in the St Pete environs, online anywhere at 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.
ST. PETERSBURG NEWS 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-1:230 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.
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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 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.
HANG OUT with RSP @ LOCAL EVENTS 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.
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!
