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The Washington metropolitan area is currently the seventh-largest radio market in the United States. [1] While most stations originate within Washington, D.C. proper, this list includes also stations that originate from Northern Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland.
WUST (1120 AM) is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. [3] The station services the Washington metropolitan area as the market affiliate of the Black Information Network.
WPFW launched at 8 p.m. on February 28, 1977, [2] with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train." [3] The fifth station in the San Francisco-based Pacific Network, WPFW was different from the other Pacific stations in that it was established as a Black-staffed and -formatted station with a mission to serve as a community radio station for the largely African-American population ...
Radio One was founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, a then-recently divorced single mother, with the purchase of the Washington, D.C. radio station WOL-AM for $995,000. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] She changed the station's programming format from all-music to one that examined politics and culture from an African American perspective. [ 8 ]
Its call sign stood for "Washington High Fidelity Stereo" (WHFS), advertising that it was the first station in the Washington metropolitan area to broadcast in FM stereo. [1] It was originally located in a 20-by-20-foot (6.1 m × 6.1 m) space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with its antenna on the roof.
WHUR-FM (96.3 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary radio station that is licensed to Washington, D.C., and serving the Metro D.C. area. It is owned and operated by Howard University, making it one of the few commercial radio stations in the United States to be owned by a college or university, as well as being the only independent, locally-owned station in the Washington, D.C., area.
WPRS-FM (104.1 MHz) is an urban gospel formatted radio station in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.The station is licensed to Waldorf, Maryland, and is co-owned with WKYS-FM, WMMJ, WOL and WYCB and has studios located in Silver Spring, Maryland, with a transmitter located just east of Waldorf.
WYCB. WYCB (1340 AM) is a radio station in Washington, D.C., featuring an urban gospel format known as "Spirit 1340 AM". Owned by Urban One, its studios are in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the transmitter site is in Capitol Heights, Maryland. WYCB is the oldest gospel radio station in Washington; [4] it was also the first contemporary gospel ...