If you grew up in the Washington, DC, area in the 1960s and 1970s, as did this reporter, there was one consistently hip radio station that the cool people listened to: WHFS, broadcasting from high ...

Wednesday's abrupt morphing of modern-rock radio stalwart WHFS-FM into El Zol, a Spanish-language pop station, caught many, including WHFS's on-air staff, by surprise and touched off considerable ...

There’s an apple waiting to be plucked in the Baltimore radio marketplace. When CBS Radio changed the call letters of its 105.7 FM station Monday, it was the second time in less than three years that ...

…albeit on the LPFM frequency of 97.5 that was previously WRYR-LP Sherwood, MD. WHFS is now on a Baltimore TV tower as a 250-watt translator after CBS Radio took over the frequency. The legendary DC ...

In an era of algorithm-driven music playlists, the idea of a radio station whose DJs play whatever they want may seem quaint. Yet some people find it appealing, to judge by the advance response to ...

Only in death could WHFS find life. The alternative radio station was pulled from the air in January – an act of mercy after a long death spiral. Ratings had tanked, and WHFS had lost much of the ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the Internet and Google, a place existed where local music fans could hear obscure songs and learn about artists they’d never heard of — its “URL” was 102.3 FM. The ...

Emmy-winning Feast Your Ears takes you on a trip back to when free form FM radio was in its heyday. The Emmy award-winning feature length doc Feast Your Ears takes you on a trip back to the ‘60s ...

At some point, all partnerships come to an end. For the Baltimore Orioles, a 19-year association with WBAL radio, 1090 AM, to broadcast game coverage and play-by-play calls came to an end Monday. In ...

Jonathan “Weasel” Gilbert says he almost flunked out of American University because he was so focused on working on the school’s on-campus station, “which could only be heard in the dorms and the ...

WHFS-FM (99.1) — the local rock ’n’ roll radio station that made its name in the 1970s with a free-form, free-flowing, playlist-free sound but later adopted a more mainstream style — flipped its ...

Mention the call letters “WHFS” to music lovers of a certain age, and don’t be surprised if a smile instantly appears on their face, or a twinkle seems to light up their eye. Memories of a magic place ...