Clam Shack Radio Brings Rhode Island’s Ocean Vibes to iHeartRadio

Clam Shack Radio, the South County, Rhode Island-based internet station, which also holds an active construction permit for 96.7 on the FM dial, is based around deep cuts and forgotten AM/FM favorites, has expanded its reach through the iHeartRadio app.

Small Station, Bigger Signal

Clam Shack Radio was never trying to be everything to everyone. Founded in 2025 by Tony Jones Omnimedia and currently operating out of Charlestown, Rhode Island, the station, broadcasting under the call signs WRIB-LP and WSHK-DB, has kept its focus narrow and deliberate: the songs that defined the 1960s and '70s, the classic rock that filled AM dials before playlists got predictable, power pop, blues, and the beach-adjacent feeling that the Rhode Island coastline does better than almost anywhere.

"Now our programming is a tap away for the roughly 150 million registered iHeartRadio users" says founder Tony Jones.

Clam Shack Radio confirmed its listing on the platform, where it appears under its full name alongside thousands of other stations competing for ears.

The move puts a two-person operation, per the company's own LinkedIn, on the same app used to stream iHeart's massive national brands. That's a real distribution jump for a station that, until recently, reached listeners primarily through its own website and aggregators like Zeno Media and Online Radio Box.

What's Actually Playing

The station's tagline, "Deep Cuts and Early AM/FM Favorites," does most of the explaining. This isn't an oldies station in the jukebox-at-a-diner sense. The programming skews toward tracks that got genuine radio play in their time but have largely disappeared from legacy stations now locked into rotating the same 200 songs.

Think album cuts. Think the B-side you half-remember. Think the kind of thing that would come on at 1 a.m. on a good FM station in 1974 and make you pull off the highway to listen.

Beyond the core 60s and 70s catalog, Clam Shack Radio runs programming that leans into surf, tiki, lounge, and what the station describes as lo-fi, a genre-adjacent aesthetic that fits the Rhode Island shore in a way that, say, a syndicated classic hits format never quite could. The station recently added its 13th edition of the Endless Summer Show, a program aimed squarely at fans of that surf and lounge sensibility.

The Rhode Island Angle

That regional rootedness matters. Internet radio is full of stations that could be from anywhere. Clam Shack Radio is specifically from somewhere. The beach vibe it describes isn't a brand exercise, it's a geographic fact.

Where It Goes From Here

The iHeartRadio listing gives Clam Shack Radio something its website stream and aggregator placements couldn't fully provide: discoverability within a platform where casual listeners already browse by mood, genre, or location. A user searching for classic rock or oldies in the iHeart app can now stumble onto a station they would never have found otherwise.

The station is also available through Apple Music and maintains an active presence across social platforms, where it currently counts more than 6,100 followers on Facebook.

For a station operating with an experienced yet skeleton crew, the distribution footprint is growing fast. Whether the iHeartRadio addition translates into a meaningful audience bump is the question. The programming, at least, gives people a reason to stay once they find it.