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WETA (90.9 FM) is a non-commercial, public FM radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C., broadcasting a classical music format. Its studios are located in Arlington, Virginia and its broadcast tower is located near Arlington at ( 38°53′30.0″N 77°7′54.0″W / 38.891667°N 77.131667°W / 38.891667; -77.131667
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.
Had the deal gone through, Washington, D.C., would have been left without a classical-music station as a result of the earlier 2005 switch of WETA to a public-radio news and talk format. Washington-based XM Satellite Radio attempted to capitalize on the development, purchasing advertisements in The Washington Post billing itself as the new home ...
The format shift made 105.9 as the DC market's only classic rock station, though WBIG-FM broadcast a lighter "classic hits" format. On September 17, 2009, the station changed its call letters to WVRX. On July 7, 2010, WVRX added a local morning drive program with Washington/Baltimore radio veterans Kirk McEwen and Mike O'Meara called Kirk and ...
She and Weasel also hosted a live show featuring local band performances called "Take One," which broadcast from the Sounds Reasonable studio in Washington, DC, during the late 1970s. Suzanne Gordon was the progressive format's first news director, hosting five "News of the Universe" segments, and various public affairs features, daily from ...
Music in Maryland features locally performed concerts. Late night/early morning broadcasts are provided by Classical 24. WBJC's primary competition for classical music listeners is WETA 90.9 FM in Washington, D.C. Although WETA-FM is a Washington metropolitan area station, its service contour covers portions of the Baltimore metropolitan area. [8]
Classical music is returning to Milwaukee radio after a 15-year absence. But the local airwaves will lose a news-talk station as a result. WHAD-FM 90.7 will switch to classical music as part of ...
Performance Today was created by National Public Radio (NPR), and went on the air in 1987. The program was founded by NPR vice president for cultural programming Dean Boal, who gave Performance Today its name, and who, along with NPR colleagues Doug Bennet, Jane Couch, Ellen Boal, and retired Baldwin Piano Company president Lucien Wulsin, secured the series' initial funding.