WTOP AM left the simulcast on June 23, 2010, as Bonneville leased the station to United Media Group. It took back the WTOP call letters on February 1, 2010. On January 26, 2010, following the shutdown of Air America Radio, WZAA returned to the WTOP simulcast. On June 13, 2009, the 1050 AM frequency changed to a separate news/talk format, operated by Air America Radio as WZAA. The former WFED took over the WTOP call sign on the AM dial and became a simulcast of WTOP, with preemptions for sporting events. Other sponsorship continues, with sportscasts being "fed" by Ledo Pizza. That sponsorship concluded at the end of 2007. In May 2007, WTOP sold the naming rights to its "Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center" (its nickname for its studio) to area business Ledo Pizza. WTLP-FM (formerly WGYS) at 103.9 picked up the WTOP simulcast on April 6, 2007, after the adult hits "George 104" simulcast with WXGG (now WPRS-FM, since sold to Radio One) was broken up, and adopted the WTLP calls on July 5, 2007.Īlso in 2007, WTOP began broadcasting on WJLA's "Weather Now" digital sub-channel, which is carried on cable systems well beyond WTOP's broadcast area, though this was ended in late July 2009. In 2007, the WTOP radio configuration was realigned once again. WJLA's "Live Super Doppler 7" has been featured in weather reports as necessary. Until 2015, the station used all WJLA meteorologists, not just Doug Hill. Previously, WTOP had used weather reports from WJLA chief meteorologist Doug Hill during morning and evening rush hours and The Weather Channel all other times. In 2006, WTOP dropped its long-standing association with The Weather Channel and began airing weather reports exclusively from WJLA-TV all day long. As of July 1, 2017, WTOP-HD2 began broadcasting the feed from WFED (1500 AM), after Radio Sputnik moved its Washington DC-area broadcasting to conventional (non-digital) frequency 105.5 MHz. Sometime in or before June 2013, that LMA was replaced with the predecessor to what is now Radio Sputnik. Later iChannel was dropped for an LMA of the HD2 to a group that currently airs programming aimed at the South Asian community in the Washington area. The HD Radio digital subchannels of the 103.5 signal originally had broadcast Bonneville International's "iChannel" music format, which features unsigned, independent rock bands on the HD2 channel, and the HD3 channel aired continuous traffic and weather updates. On January 11, 2006, WGMS-FM's call sign was changed to WTOP-FM, and the station switched to an all-news format. They operated with a commercial fine arts and classical music format until 2006. In 1951, the two stations changed their call letters to WGMS and WGMS-FM. The station debuted in the late 1940s as WQQW-FM, licensed to Washington, D.C., as a companion to an existing AM station, WQQW in Bethesda, Maryland. Two contests air on WTOP: the weekly Mystery Newsmaker Contest, and the daily Winning Word. WTOP also features two daily commentaries hosted by Chris Core and Clinton Yates. Presented in an hourly "wheel", this includes CBS News on the Hour Traffic and Weather on the 8s and regularly scheduled sports and business updates twice every half-hour, respectively.Īmong the recurring segments on WTOP-FM every week: To Your Health, devoted to health topics and related warnings Sprawl & Crawl, devoted to road construction updates Friday Freebies, presenting sales and deals from local stores and businesses Garden Plot, hosted by Mike McGrath and Data Doctor's Tech Tips, offers tech advice. ProgrammingĪll-news radio accounts for all regular programming on WTOP-FM. WTOP-FM is the sucessor to the original WTOP, an AM station at 1500 kHz, which held the WTOP call sign from 1943 until 2006, and adopted an all-news format in March 1969. Besides a standard analog transmission, WTOP-FM broadcasts over three HD Radio channels, and is available online. neighborhood of Friendship Heights, while the station transmitter is located on the American University campus.
Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station serves the Washington metropolitan area, extending its reach through two repeater stations: WTLP (103.9 FM) in Braddock Heights, Maryland, and The WTOP-FM studios, referred to on-air as the "WTOP Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center", are located in the Washington D.C. WTOP-FM (103.5 FM) – branded "WTOP Radio" and "WTOP News" – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C.
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