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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.
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.
On September 21, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C. made an audio recording of its entire 19-hour broadcast day. This undertaking was a collaboration between the station and the National Archives, and it was the first time that such a comprehensive recording of a radio broadcast had been made.
WJH was a Washington, D.C. AM radio station, which was first authorized in December 1921, and went silent in mid-1924. It was originally licensed to the White & Boyer Company, which later became the William P. Boyer Company.
WOOK was a radio station that operated on 1340 AM in Washington, D.C., United States, from 1940 to 1978.Owned by Richard Eaton's United Broadcasting, the station was known for its programming for the African-American community in the Washington metropolitan area; before that, in the 1940s, it was an independent station owned for several years by the Washington Post.
WDM was an AM radio station, licensed to Church of the Covenant in Washington, D.C., which was issued its first license in December 1921, and went silent in mid-1925. It was also the first broadcasting station to be operated by a church.
WQOF (1260 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Washington, D.C., and serving the Washington metro area with a Catholic radio format. Owned and operated by Relevant Radio, WQOF's transmitter is located in Silver Spring, Maryland.
WUST first signed on in 1947 as WBCC, licensed to the Washington, DC suburb of Bethesda, Maryland with 250 watts of power, broadcasting in the daytime only. [6] It had been a rhythm and blues station. Its call letters came from its studio location at 1120 U Street, NW, later moving to 815 V Street NW, site of today's 9:30 Club.