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Broadcast area | Washington metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 103.5 MHz (HD Radio) |
Branding | WTOP Radio; WTOP News |
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Format | All-news radio |
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History | |
First air date | September 12, 1948[1] |
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Former frequencies | 101.7 MHz (1948)[1] |
Call sign meaning | carried over from 1500 AM, which was regarded as "the top of the dial" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 11845 |
Class | B |
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HAAT | 158 meters (518 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°56′10.6″N 77°05′31.5″W / 38.936278°N 77.092083°W |
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Website | wtop |
WTOP-FM (103.5 FM) – branded "WTOP Radio" and "WTOP News" – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting,[4] the station serves the Washington metropolitan area, extending its reach through two repeater stations: WTLP (103.9 FM) in Braddock Heights, Maryland,[5] and WWWT-FM (107.7) in Manassas, Virginia.[6] The WTOP-FM studios, referred to on-air as the "WTOP Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center",[7] are located on Wisconsin Avenue in the Washington D.C. suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland, while the station transmitter is located on the American University campus.[8] Besides a standard analog transmission, WTOP-FM broadcasts over three HD Radio channels,[9][10] and is available online.
WTOP-FM is the successor 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.[11]