WZHF

WZHF
City of license Arlington, Virginia
Broadcast area Metro Washington
Branding "Radio Russia"
Frequency 1390 kHz
First air date 1947
Format All News, Foreign Broadcaster Relay
Power 5,000 Watts day and night
Class B
Facility ID 73306
Transmitter coordinates 38°54′15.0″N 77°09′54.0″W / 38.904167°N 77.165000°W
Affiliations Voice of Russia
Owner Way Broadcasting
(Way Broadcasting Licensee, LLC)

WZHF is Russian-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Arlington, Virginia, serving Metro Washington. WZHF is owned and operated by Way Broadcasting.[1]

History

WZHF currently relays the English-language service of the Voice of Russia. Before March 2011, it was a Spanish Contemporary station. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was a Top 40 radio station that used the callsign WEAM. For a time in the 1990s it retransmitted the programming of WMZQ, an FM station in Washington, D.C.

Sports Coverage

WZHF served as the Spanish radio broadcaster for the Washington Nationals baseball team in 2010.

References

  1. "WZHF Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

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