WJSV was also a key training ground for pioneering newsman Bob Trout in the 1930s before he became a network correspondent.
#Wtop traffic archive#
The WJSV broadcast day recordings still exist and copies can be found at the Internet Archive and various old time radio websites. On September 21, 1939, WJSV recorded its entire broadcast day for posterity. Arthur Godfrey, who later hosted a variety program on CBS Radio and CBS Television, hosted a program on WJSV called The Sundial on which he honed a laid-back, conversational style that was unusual on radio at the time. After three months off the air, WJSV resumed broadcasting on October 20, 1932. In June 1932, CBS exercised its option to purchase WJSV outright, and moved its operations to Alexandria, Virginia. As part of the deal, CBS took over all of WJSV's programming and engineering costs, with an option to renew or purchase the station after five years. Realizing the expense of running a 10,000-watt radio station, Vance quickly worked out a deal with the nascent Columbia Broadcasting System to become the new network's Washington affiliate, beginning a relationship that would last for almost 90 years. Vance, who was publisher of "The Fellowship Forum" and a KKK Grand Wizard in Virginia.
On January 10, 1929, the call sign was changed to WJSV, reflecting the initials of owner James S. On August 2, 1927, WTRC migrated to Mount Vernon Hills, Virginia a suburb of Washington.
WTOP's origins trace back to Brooklyn, New York, as station WTRC (operated by the Twentieth Republican Club), going to air September 25, 1926, on 1250 kilocycles with a power of 50 watts. The WTOP logo after the WWWT signal was added. WTOP and WTOP-FM have served as Washington's CBS affiliate for all but two years since first joining the network in 1929. WTOP-FM is considered the successor station to WTOP (1500 AM), now WFED, a station founded in Brooklyn, New York City in 1926 which moved to Washington the following year. Historically, the 103.5 FM facility is perhaps best known as WGMS-FM, which operated with a commercial fine arts and classical music format from 1948 until 2006. 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. “I’m still employed, and a lot of people can’t say that,” she said. “As soon as we know,we’ll make as big a noise as we can,” he said.īaden said she’s living life one day at a time-and continuing to wake up at 2:30 a.m. “No kidding.”įrawley said they are looking for other options for her. “I’ve spent an enormous amount of time, shoulders bobbing, snot pouring, on the floor,” she said. She said she has been going through the five stages of grief since she learned of the decision in September. “We’ll never let her go.”īaden’s contract doesn’t end until July 4, 2012. “She’s under contract to us,” Metro Networks head John Frawley said. “This was a business decision.” He said he tried to bring Baden and the other Metro Networks traffic reporters to WTOP, but they have clauses in their contracts banning them from working for competitors for one year. “It’s not with any ill feeling,” he said. Her tenure ended because WTOP ended its relationship with her employer, Metro Networks, and is bringing its traffic reporting in house, WTOP Vice President of News and Programming Jim Farley said. She described it as moving “from the fast lane to the second right lane when I’m just not a second-right-lane kind of gal.” Soon will be heard on WAVA 105.1 FM, a Christian radio station.īut Baden told The Washington Examiner she is devastated to leave WTOP, which has the biggest market share in a region tied for having the nation’s worst traffic. She will continue to appear on television at ABC affiliate WJLA (Channel 7) and The voice that has been directing commuters on the region’s top radio station for more than a decade signed off after Monday’s morning commute.
#Wtop traffic drivers#
Lisa Baden will no longer will be telling the region’s drivers which roads to avoid when they tune into WTOP to get traffic reports.
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