WSSU | |
City: | Superior, Wisconsin |
Area: | Duluth/Superior |
Branding: | WPR News and Classical |
Airdate: | [1] |
Format: | Public radio, Classical music, News |
Erp: | 950 watts |
Haat: | 100m (300feet) |
Class: | A |
Facility Id: | 89432 |
Coordinates: | 46° 47' 20.40" N 92° 06' 49.10" W[2] |
Callsign Meaning: | WiSconsin-SUperior |
Affiliations: | Wisconsin Public Radio NPR American Public Media |
Owner: | Wisconsin Educational Communications Board |
Webcast: | Listen Live |
Website: | wpr.org |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WSSU (88.5 MHz) is an FM radio station licensed to Superior, Wisconsin, and serving the Duluth/Superior area. The station is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and airs the WPR News network. WSSU also broadcasts local news and programming from studios in the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
The WSSU call letters had originally been on sister Ideas Network station KUWS from its sign-on in 1966 until 1988. From 1989 to 1995, WSSU was used by a Springfield, IL public radio station which was formerly WSSR and later WUIS.