WIAD
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| City | Bethesda, Maryland |
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| Broadcast area | Washington metropolitan area |
| Branding | 94.7 Fresh FM |
| Slogan | Today's Fresh Music |
| Frequency | 94.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1959 (as WJMD) |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Hot Adult Contemporary HD2: Classic hits "Classic 94.7" HD3: Sports (WJFK-FM simulcast) |
| ERP | 20,500 watts (analog) 979 watts (digital) |
| HAAT | 235 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 9619 |
| Callsign meaning | WIAD (the airport code for Washington Dulles International Airport) |
| Former callsigns | WJMD (1959-1982) WLTT (1982-1993) WARW (1993-2007) WTGB (2007-2009) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio East Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WJFK, WJFK-FM, WLZL, WDCH-FM, WPGC-FM |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Listen Live (HD2) |
| Website | 947freshfm.cbslocal.com |
WIAD (94.7 FM, "94.7 Fresh FM") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Bethesda, Maryland. The station is owned by CBS Radio through licensee CBS Radio East, Inc. and broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format.
WIAD uses HD Radio, and broadcasts a classic hits format on its HD2 subchannel branded as "Classic 94.7", while the sports programming of sister station WJFK-FM is simulcast on its HD3 subchannel.
The station originally aired a beautiful music format with the call sign WJMD. The WJMD call letters formed the initials of the previous owners, the Diener brothers (Walter, Jack, Mickey and Dan).
WJMD evolved into a soft adult contemporary music format with a change of call sign to WLTT in March 1982. Under this format, the station was branded as "W-Lite". The format would last for the next 11 years.
WLTT dropped the soft adult contemporary music format on November 19, 1993, in favor of a classic rock music format branded as "The Arrow". A change of call letters followed to WARW to complement the change in branding to "The Arrow". WARW was also billed on-air as "We Always Rock Washington."
On February 2, 2007, an adult album alternative (also known as "triple A") music format was adopted with the branding "The Globe". The new "Globe" format also featured "green" segments between songs or before and after commercials with environmental information. These segments are called "The Green Scene". The station's call letters changed to WTGB on February 15. The airstaff remained the same as WARW's, but some spots were flipped. Weasel moved from nights to mornings, displacing the Stevens & Medley morning team. Mark Stevens, who was part of Stevens & Medley, moved to nights and was eventually replaced by Albie Dee, who would later move to mornings, replacing Weasel, in November 2008, two months after WTGB flipped back to their prior classic rock format. Jerry Hoyt would then take over evenings. The February 2007 shift to Triple-A left rival classic hits station WBIG-FM as the capital's only analog station broadcasting some form of classic rock. The Globe's HD2 subchannel, then known as "The Jam", began broadcasting a mixture of classic rock.
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