WJFK (AM)
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| City | Morningside, Maryland |
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| Broadcast area | Washington, D.C. |
| Branding | CBS Sports Radio 1580 |
| Frequency | 1580 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 95.5-3 FM WPGC-FM HD3 |
| First air date | May 1954 (as WPGC) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 270 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 28638 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°52′9″N 76°53′47″W / 38.86917°N 76.89639°W |
| Callsign meaning | W John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Former callsigns | WPGC (1954-2008) WHFS (2008-2011) WNEW (2011-2013) |
| Affiliations | CBS Sports Radio |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (CBS Radio WPGC(AM) Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WIAD, WJFK-FM, WLZL, WDCH-FM, WPGC-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | washington.cbslocal.com/station/cbs-sports-radio-1580-am/ |
WJFK (1580 AM, "CBS Sports Radio 1580") is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format. Licensed to the suburb of Morningside, Maryland with studios in Southeast DC in the Navy Yard neighborhood, it serves the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by CBS Radio.
On November 12, 1953, former FCC employee Harry Hayman received a construction permit for a radio station in Morningside operating at 250 watts daytime-only on 1580 kilohertz. The call letters WPGC, representing Prince George's County were issued soon afterwards.
In May 1954, WPGC began as a multi-formatted radio station. Maxwell Evans Richmond purchased the station from Harry Hayman for $10,000 on November 10, 1954.
On April 14, 1955, WPGC was issued a permit to raise power to 10,000 watts. It also moved its offices from Morningside to a facility in Hyattsville, Maryland. It later moved to Southeast, Washington, D.C. in studios formerly used by WBUZ (95.5). In 1958, the station started simulcasting its programming on 95.5, by then renamed WRNC; the station is now WPGC-FM, which it became after WPGC-AM bought 95.5 outright.
On June 28, 1965, the WPGC stations were granted a modification of their licenses to move their studios to Bladensburg while continuing to identify their city of license as Morningside. By then, the station played Top-40 programming with a format similar to WABC and WMCA in New York City and CKLW in Detroit, and was the most popular such station in the Washington area, rivaled only by WEAM (1390; now WZHF). Responding to the black population growth of the Washington area, WPGC began to alternate playing so-called "white" rock records with Motown and soul music.
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