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WMAL-FM
WMAL-FM (105.9 MHz) – branded ''105.9 FM WMAL'' – is a radio station licensed to Woodbridge, Virginia, serving the Washington, D.C. Metro area. WMAL-FM airs a conservative talk radio format and is owned and operated by Cumulus Media. The station's studios are located at 4400 Jenifer Street NW in Washington, two blocks from the city's border with Maryland, and the transmitter site is in Falls Church, Virginia, off Lee Highway. WMAL-FM is co-owned with sports radio station WSBN at 630 kHz; the WMAL call sign and talk format originated on that station, and the two stations simulcast from 2011 to 2019. Programming Weekday mornings on WMAL-FM start with ''O'Connor & Company'' with Larry O'Connor. At 9 a.m., Chris Plante hosts a nationally syndicated show, based at WMAL-FM. Vince Coglianese is heard in afternoon drive time. The rest of the schedule features nationally syndicated programs: '' The Dan Bongino Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Ben Shapiro Show, CBS Eye o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLVW
WLVW (107.3 FM) – branded as ''K-Love'' – is a non-commercial Christian adult contemporary radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation, WLVW does not broadcast any local programming, functioning as the Washington metropolitan area network affiliate for K-Love. The station's transmitter resides in the district's northwest quadrant. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WLVW is available online; the station also broadcasts in the HD Radio format. History WMAL-FM On May 15, 1948, the station signed on as WMAL-FM, owned by '' The Washington Evening Star''. WMAL-FM mostly simulcast co-owned WMAL (630 AM), the market's ABC Radio Network affiliate; as network programming moved from radio to television in the 1950s, WMAL and WMAL-FM switched to a full service middle of the road format. In the late 1960s, WMAL-FM switched to a combination of easy listening and classical music, mostly automated with the exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSBN
WSBN (630 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial AM broadcasting, AM sports radio, sports radio station City of license, licensed to Washington, D.C., and serving the Washington Metropolitan Area, Washington metro area. It operates with 10,000 watts in the daytime and 2,700 watts at night using a directional antenna around the clock. WSBN's studios are on Jenifer Street in Northwest Washington. The transmitter is located off Black Rock Road in Germantown, Maryland. WSBN is owned and operated by Cumulus Media and is network affiliate, affiliated with ESPN Radio. It is one of the oldest radio stations in the Washington media market, continuously on the air from 1925. For most of its history, the station operated as WMAL; on July 1, 2019, its Talk radio, talk programming was moved exclusively to co-owned WMAL-FM at 105.9 Hertz, MHz, which had simulcast with 630 am since 2011. Programming WSBN has two local hosts on weekdays, Andy Pollin in late mornings and Bram Weinstein i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Bongino
Daniel John Bongino (born December4, 1974) is an American government official, Conservatism in the United States, conservative political commentator, radio host, and former law enforcement officer who has served as the 20th Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2025. He hosted ''The Dan Bongino Show'' on Rumble (company), Rumble and previously hosted ''Unfiltered with Dan Bongino'' on Fox News until April 2023. Bongino began his career as a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer from 1995 to 1999 before serving as a U.S. Secret Service agent from 1999 to 2011. He later unsuccessfully ran for Congress three times as a Republican Party (United States), Republican. On February 23, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that Bongino had been named the next deputy director of the FBI. He assumed office on March 17, after concluding his commentating roles on March 14. Early life and educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mark Levin Show
''The Mark Levin Show'' is a conservative talk radio show hosted by Mark Levin. History Levin began his career as a radio host in 2002 in a Sunday afternoon timeslot on WABC. WABC assigned Levin to fill in starting on June 16, 2003, after the station dropped '' The Savage Nation'' for the 6–8 pm.time period weeknights. On September 2, 2003, his show moved to the 6–8 p.m. timeslot on WABC. Levin's WABC program expanded to 2 hours starting May 17, 2004. On January 30, 2006, ABC Radio Networks began syndicating the show. Initially, ABC expanded the program to three other stations, including WMAL in Levin's local Washington metropolitan area. On February 2, 2009, the program expanded to 3 hours (6–9 p.m. ET). ABC's radio assets later changed hands to Citadel Broadcasting in 2007, then to Cumulus Media in 2011; in 2013, Cumulus combined all of its radio assets under the banner of Westwood One. Levin signed a five-year contract extension with Westwood One in January 2015. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry O'Connor (radio Host)
Lawrence O'Connor (born June 23, 1967) is an American talk radio host on the Cumulus-owned heritage radio station WMAL-FM in Washington, D.C., and frequent television guest on the Fox News early morning show ''Fox & Friends'' as well as Fox News Channel's ''Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld''. In 2015 he married Meredith Dake. Early life Born in Detroit, Michigan, O'Connor grew up in the suburban township of Plymouth located between Detroit and Ann Arbor. In 1980 he moved to Newport Beach, California, and attended Corona del Mar High School. Career Theatre From 1986 to 1999, O'Connor worked for The Shubert Organization. During his tenure as general manager of the Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles (1991–1999), O'Connor oversaw the renovation of the 2,100-seat theatre specifically to accommodate the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's SUNSET BLVD. starring Glenn Close. He helped create the Ovation Awards, the competitive theatre awards in Los Angeles modeled after Broadway's T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodbridge, Virginia
Woodbridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States, located south of Washington, D.C. Bounded by the Occoquan River, Occoquan and Potomac River, Potomac rivers, Woodbridge had 44,668 residents at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Woodbridge offers a variety of amenities for residents and visitors, including Potomac Mills (shopping mall), Potomac Mills shopping mall and Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center. Woodbridge is served by the Prince William County Public Schools, and the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College borders the district. Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, a non-profit hospital, formerly Potomac Hospital, recently expanded and now has the capacity to serve 183 patients. Transportation includes access to Interstate 95 in Virginia, Interstate 95, two Virginia Railway Express, VRE commuter train stations, bus service, and a local "slugging" system, offering residents a variety of transit o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comedy, boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both :wikt:host, hosts and caller (telecommunications), callers. Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play (live commentary) of local sports teams as part of their regular programming. History In 1955, WHN New York launched the first regular sports talk program featuring a broadcaster/journalist roundtable that aired before and after Brooklyn Dodgers games. By the early 1960s, sports talk content, ranging from individual commentary to roundtable discussions, began appearing in major US markets, initially tied to play-by-play broadcasts but gradually developing unique styles and characters. Art Rust Jr. launched New York’s first interactive call-in show (WMCA) in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially Unincorporated area, unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Maryland, Columbia, Germantown, Maryland, Germantown, and Waldorf, Maryland, Waldorf. Downtown Silver Spring, located next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C., is the oldest and most Urbanization, urbanized area of Silver Spring, surrounded by several inner suburban residential neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway. Many mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office space have been built since 2004. Silver Spring takes its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who subsequently bought much of the area's surrounding land. Acorn Park, south of downtown, is be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brokered Programming
Brokered programming (also known as time-buy and blocktime) is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials. A brokered program is typically not capable of garnering enough support from advertisements to pay for itself, and may be controversial, esoteric or an advertisement in itself. Overview Common examples Common examples are religious and political programs and talk-show-format programs similar to infomercial on television. Others are hobby programs or vanity programs paid for by the host and/or their supporters, and may be intended to promote the host's personality, for instance in preparation for a political campaign, or to promote a product, service or business that the host is closely associated with. A live vanity show may be carried on several stations by remote broadcast or simulcast, with the producer paying multiple statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Eye Radio
''Red Eye Radio'' is a talk radio program currently hosted by Eric Harley and Gary McNamara. The program is syndicated nationwide by Westwood One, and originates from WBAP in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The show traces its history through several predecessors, beginning with Bill Mack's overnight truck show in 1969. History Bill Mack Bill Mack was the founder of WBAP's overnight program, the ''U.S. 1 Trucking Show''. Mack started the show in 1969. The show, as the name implied, was geared toward the American truck driver and featured a lot of country music. The show briefly attempted an excursion into Mexico on border blaster XERF, but that arrangement ended after it was clear that Mack would not be able to host the show from his home in Fort Worth. Eventually, the show's name changed to the ''Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show'' and the ''Midnight Cowboy Radio Network'' and was syndicated by ABC Radio, who carefully selected the affiliates to give maximum coverage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Batchelor
John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an American author and the host of ''Eye on the World'' on the CBS Audio Network. His flagship station is WOR in New York City. The show is a hard-news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. For five years, from early 2001 to September 2006, based at WABC radio in New York, his radio program ''The John Batchelor Show'' was syndicated nationally on the ABC Radio Network. On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC, and later to other large market stations on a weekly basis. As of November 30, 2009, Batchelor was once again hosting a nightly show on WABC, from 9 p.m. to 1a.m. Eastern Time and heard in many major markets across the country through what eventually became the Westwood One network. The program for a time was heard seven nights a week, using prerecorded material on weekends. Later, it aired Monday through Friday on WABC and many Westwood One netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Shapiro
Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative political commentator, media host, and attorney. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, ''Newsweek'', and ''Ami Magazine'', and serves as editor emeritus for ''The Daily Wire'', which he co-founded in 2015. Shapiro is the host of ''The Ben Shapiro Show'', a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of ''Breitbart News'' from 2012 until his resignation in 2016. Shapiro has also authored sixteen non-fiction books. Early life and education Shapiro was born on January 15, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, to a Conservative Judaism, Conservative Jewish family. He is Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish. When he was 9 years old, his family began to observe Orthodox Judaism. He started playing violin at a young age and performed at the Israel Bonds Banquet in 1996 at age 12. His parents both worked in Hollywood. His mother was a TV company execut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
