WSTU

WSTU

City	Stuart, Florida
Broadcast area	Martin County, Florida
Slogan	Martin County's Heritage Station
Frequency	1450 kHz
Format	Talk radio
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Class	C
Facility ID	74076
Transmitter coordinates	27°12′53″N 80°15′24″W / 27.21472°N 80.25667°W / 27.21472; -80.25667
Callsign meaning	STUart, Florida
Affiliations	ABC Radio
Owner	Treasure Coast Broadcasters, Inc.
Website	wstu1450.com

WSTU (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Stuart, Florida, USA, the station is currently owned by Treasure Coast Broadcasters, Inc. WSTU went on the air in December 1954. Les Combs was the original owner. In 1969 the station was sold to Harvey L Glascock, whose family owned the station until 1997 when it was sold to American Radio. After a brief ownership by a Broward County businessman, it was sold to Barry Grant Marsh and David Pomerance. Marsh had been Operations Manager of WSTU for many years under the Glasscock family. The station was purchased by Treasure Coast Broadcasters in 2001. When WSTU went on the air, Stuart went from the biggest city on Florida's east coast without its own radio station to the smallest city on Florida's east coast with its own radio station. WSTU had a strong local news commitment from the very first, and continues that to this day under News Director Tom Teter, who has been with the station since 1980. Teter has won many awards for news excellence from UPI and AP including Best Newscast in Florida and Best Spot News Reporting. From the earliest days the Martin County community viewed the station as more of a public utility than a privately owned radio station. WSTU was also one of the first radio stations in Florida to broadcast high school sports on a regular basis and continues to broadcast high school football, basketball and baseball. Hamp Elliot did the play-by-play for many years followed by Teter who handled the play-by-play for more than 20 years. Rick McGuire now does much of the play-by-play. This summary written by Tom Teter.^[1]

References

↑ "WSTU Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Radio stations in the Vero Beach–Ft. Pierce–Stuart market

By AM frequency	1330 1370 1400 1450 1490 1570 1590

By Shortwave frequency	9.955

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.9 90.5 91.1 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.7 93.7 94.7 95.5 95.9 97.1 98.7 99.7 100.5 101.3 101.7 102.3* 103.7 104.5 106.3 107.9

By callsign	W203BE W300BQ WAVW WAYF WCNO WCZR WEFL WFLM WGYL WHLG WIRA WJFP WJKD WJNX WKGR WLDI WMBX WOSN WOKC WPHR-FM WPSL WQCS WQOL WREH WRMB WRMI WROK-FM WSCF-FM WSTU WTTB WUUB WWFR WZTA

Defunct radio stations	WYFR

Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida *WMBX is aimed for the West Palm Beach market, but broadcasts from Jensen Beach

Miami Marlins Radio Network

Flagships	WINZ/940 (English) WAQI/710 (Spanish)

Affiliates	WBZT/1230 WFFG/1300 WFLN/1480 WHOO/1080 WIXC/1060 WJBX/770 WKWF/1600 WMMB/1240 WSTU/1450

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