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Radio St. Lucia was a
radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
on
Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
, located on the Morne
Castries Castries is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean. The urban area has a population of approximately 20,000, while the eponymous district has a population of 70,000, as at May 2013. The city stretches o ...
, which operated from 1972 to 2017. For a long period it was the only radio station on the island. Its programming featured a mixture of news, music, talk. They were once wholly owned and operated by the Government of Saint Lucia but were later privatised. The government shut the station down on 31 July 2017 citing financial losses and unpaid taxes.


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(archived) 1972 establishments in Saint Lucia 2017 disestablishments in Saint Lucia Radio stations disestablished in 2017 Radio stations established in 1972 Radio stations in Saint Lucia {{NorthAm-radio-station-stub