WMAL-FM
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| City | Woodbridge, Virginia |
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| Broadcast area | Washington Metropolitan Area |
| Branding | 105.9 FM & AM 630 WMAL |
| Slogan | Where Washington Comes To Talk |
| Frequency | 105.9 MHz |
| First air date | 1962 (as WXRA) |
| Format | Talk |
| ERP | Horizontal: 28,000 watts Vertical: 25,000 watts |
| HAAT | 198 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 70037 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°52′28.0″N 77°13′24.0″W / 38.874444°N 77.223333°W |
| Callsign meaning |
W-"Martin A. Leese" (founder of AM simulcast WMAL) |
| Former callsigns | 2009–2011: WVRX 1994–2009: WJZW 1986–1994: WCXR-FM 1981–1986: WPKX-FM 1962–1981: WXRA |
| Affiliations |
Westwood One Network Premiere Radio Networks |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holdings LLC) |
| Sister stations | WMAL, WRQX |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wmal.com |
WMAL-FM (105.9 MHz) – branded 105.9 FM & AM 630 WMAL – is an FM radio station licensed to Woodbridge, Virginia, serving the Washington, D.C. Metro area. WMAL-FM airs a 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. Since September 19, 2011, all of WMAL-FM's programming is simulcast from co-owned WMAL (AM) at 630 kHz.
Weekday mornings on WMAL-AM-FM start with "Mornings on the Mall" with hosts Brian Wilson and Mary Walter. Previously, Larry O'Connor also hosted "Mornings on the Mall" but now O'Connor is hosting his own show, "The Larry O'Connor Show" from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. At 9 a.m., Chris Plante hosts a show also heard on several other Cumulus stations. The rest of the day, nationally syndicated shows air from Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and John Batchelor. Red Eye Radio is heard overnight, seven nights a week. Weekends feature shows on money, health, law and gardening with repeats of some weekday shows and Brokered programming. Most weekday hours feature local news at the beginning of each hour. Westwood One national news airs nights and weekends.
Before the current station was founded, an earlier station, called WHIP, existed on 105.9 FM in the Washington area. The station was founded between 1948 and 1950 and licensed to Silver Spring; therefore it is unrelated to the current station, which is licensed to Woodbridge.
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