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WTOP: ‘You turn us on and we’re there’: Looking back at 50 years of news on WTOP

Editor Apr 1, 2019

We have to give credit where it’s due. Back in 1969, legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham had been listening to WAVA, a small AM station out of the Virginia suburbs that broadcast all news.

WTOP: So long, farewell and all that: WTOP says goodbye to its longtime DC home

Editor Feb 1, 2019

3400 IDAHO AVE. NW — A newsroom is unlike anything in the modern working world. There aren’t many two-hour meetings, for example, or mandatory webinars.

Washington Business Journal: Everything must go from the Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center

Editor Jan 22, 2019

The Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center is moving, and everything must go.

WTOP: End of an era: Ahead of move, WTOP’s call letters removed from DC building

Editor Nov 16, 2018

WASHINGTON — It’s the end of an era. As WTOP prepares to leave its Northwest D.C. location for new digs in Chevy Chase, Maryland, crews on a crane scaled the station’s current HQ to carefully remove the station’s call letters Friday…

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When DC broadcasters move to the suburbs, what’s lost?

Scott Nover Sep 7, 2018

The Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center is moving to Maryland. In Washington, DC, the seventh-largest media market in the country, WTOP is the king of commercial radio. But the FM broadcaster told Bethesda Magazine last month that it plans to…

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District Links: Congress poised to consider disapproval of DC’s law to ‘decouple’ from federal tax…

Jan 30, 2026 14

The House and Senate are poised to consider as soon as next week whether to overturn the DC Council's recent changes to the local tax code — with the disapproval, if passed, expected to cause a $224…

District Links: Bowser cuts ribbon on all-affordable, net-zero apartment building in Truxton Circle; family’s…

Jan 29, 2026 15

Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon this morning on a new 18-unit building at 1520 North Capitol St. NW that's described as DC's first net-zero all-affordable housing community.

District Links: Councilmembers say heavy ice hampered cleanup by damaging city’s small plows; new estimate puts DC…

Jan 28, 2026 24

Amid mounting criticism of the pace of storm cleanup, DC officials are highlighting continued plowing and removal efforts — with the DC Department of Public Works tweeting a video this afternoon…

District Links: Norton confirms her retirement after 18 terms as DC delegate; Evans looks to return to DC Council as…

Jan 27, 2026 9

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton released a statement this morning confirming that she won't seek reelection this year and will retire at the end of her 18th term.

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