The following is a list of
FCC
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdictio ...
-licensed
radio stations
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ...
in the U.S. state of
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean t ...
which can be sorted by their
call signs
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assign ...
,
frequencies
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. It is also occasionally referred to as ''temporal frequency'' for clarity, and is distinct from ''angular frequency''. Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz) which is e ...
,
cities of license, licensees, and
programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
*
WBIS
*
WGBG
*
WHFS (historic)
WHFS was the call sign for three different FM stations in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Maryland markets on various frequencies for nearly 50 years. The first and longest run was a progressive rock station and was usually, and affectionatel ...
*
WHRF
WHRF is a Public Radio-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Belle Haven, Virginia, serving Accomac and Accomack County, Virginia
Accomack County is a United States county located in the eastern edge of the Commonwealth of Virgin ...
*
WRYR-LP
WRYR-LP (97.5 FM) was a low power radio station licensed to Sherwood, Maryland, United States. It served portions of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Queen Anne, Talbot, Dorchester, and Caroline Counties, including Maryland's capital city of Annapolis. Th ...
See also
*
Maryland media
**
List of newspapers in Maryland
**
List of television stations in Maryland
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Defunct full-power stations
* ...
** Media of
locales in Maryland:
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was ...
,
College Park,
Cumberland
Cumberland ( ) is a historic counties of England, historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th c ...
,
Frederick,
Gaithersburg
Gaithersburg ( ), officially the City of Gaithersburg, is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, Gaithersburg had a population of 69,657, making it the ninth-largest location in the state. Ga ...
References
Bibliography
*
*
External links
* (Directory ceased in 2017)
Maryland, DC, Delaware Broadcasters AssociationW3EAX Amateur Radio Association University of Maryland (est. circa 1934)
Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club
Images
File:James Harris Rogers in Maryland circa 1910s Library of Congress ggb2006003458.jpg, Radio inventor James Harris Rogers at his lab in Prince George's County, Maryland, circa 1910s
File:WJSV radio transmitter in Wheaton Maryland circa 1940s Library of Congress thc1995007710.jpg, WJSV radio transmitter, Wheaton, Maryland, circa 1940s
{{Navboxes
, title = Maryland radio station regional navigation boxes
, list =
{{News/Talk Radio Stations in Maryland
{{Baltimore Radio
{{Cumberland Radio
{{Frederick Radio
{{Hagerstown-Chambersburg-Waynesboro Radio
{{KingwoodOakland Radio
{{NorthernNeck Radio
{{Salisbury-Ocean City Radio
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean t ...
Radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a tr ...