WBIG-FM
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| City | Washington, D.C. |
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| Broadcast area | Washington metropolitan area |
| Branding | Big 100 |
| Slogan | Washington's Classic Rock |
| Frequency | 100.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1948 (as WFAN) |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Classic rock HD2: Ethnic Vietnamese ("Nationwide Viet Radio") |
| ERP | 50,000 watts (analog) 500 watts (digital) |
| HAAT | 149 meters (489 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 54459 |
| Callsign meaning | W BIG 100.3 |
| Former callsigns | WFAN (1948-1978) WOOK-FM (1978-1990) WDJY (1990-1991) WJZE (1991-1993) |
| Affiliations | Baltimore Ravens Radio Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C.) |
| Sister stations | WASH-FM, WIHT, WMZQ, WWDC |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wbig.iheart.com |
WBIG-FM (100.3 FM, "Big 100") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. through licensee AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C. and broadcasts a classic rock format. The broadcast tower used by the station is located west of Falls Church, Virginia at (38°53′13.0″N 77°12′2.0″W / 38.886944°N 77.200556°W), while studios are located in Rockville, Maryland.
WBIG-FM broadcasts using HD Radio.
Prior to becoming WBIG, it was Washington's first FM Spanish-language station as WFAN, later Washington's first FM urban contemporary station as WOOK-FM ("OK100"), and then as WDJY "DJ100". For several years in the early 1990s it featured an eclectic smooth jazz format as WJZE ("Jazzy 100"). The station was acquired by Colfax Broadcasting and adopted the oldies format at 4 p.m. on June 3, 1993. After a series of mergers and trades, WBIG was sold to Clear Channel in 2000 and changed its branding to "Big 100".
WBIG "evolved" from an oldies format to classic hits (1970s and early 1980s) on April 3, 2006. This was accompanied with a slight branding change to "Big 100.3". The changeover was not announced, and the new format followed Jack FM's lead by removing several announcers. Jeff "Goldy" Gold, who spent 12 years at WBIG, was the morning host at WFVL in Fayetteville, N.C. from September 2005 to February 2009. Since 2012, Goldy has been the host of Good Morning Fayetteville on News/Talk 640 WFNC. Kathy Whiteside now does mid-days at Lite FM in Baltimore, Johnny Dark works at WTTR AM in Westminster, Maryland, and Ira Melman worked for a while at WTOP-FM in DC, and now works for VOA, the Voice of America, in Washington.
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