Radio Stations
WSHU Public Radio is a group of member-supported radio stations that are owned and operated by Sacred Heart University, and that broadcast throughout much of Connecticut and Suffolk County, Long Island. The station’s Broadcast Center is located on SHU’s Fairfield, CT campus.
Each week, WSHU Public Radio and its digital platforms reach 175,000 radio listeners, 20,500 website visitors, 8,500 combined podcast visitors, 1,628 WSHU App visitors and 15,911 streaming visitors. An NPR member since 1984, the station airs highly regarded national programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, and Marketplace; locally-produced classical music; and its own regional news coverage for which it has won five national Edward R. Murrow Awards and scores of other prizes. Its classical music program Sunday Baroque is syndicated and heard on over 200 stations nationwide. In addition to broadcasting on 13 traditional radio frequencies, it streams all of its programs at www.wshu.org.
WSHU is a resource for students in a number of ways. The WSHU News Fellows Program provides unparalleled training and mentorship experiences in broadcast journalism. The station also offers internships and work-study opportunities, and WSHU staff members have taught University classes.