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WJFK-FM (106.7
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"106.7 The Fan") is a
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licensed to serve Manassas,
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, and serving the
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. WJFK-FM airs a
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and is owned and operated by
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WJFK-FM's studios are located on Half Street SE near the Navy Yard in Southeast Washington. The
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is located in
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, near the intersection of Lee Highway (
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) and the
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. WJFK-FM broadcasts in the
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format. It carries two co-owned local sports stations on its subchannels,
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and
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.


Programming

On weekdays, WJFK-FM has local personalities hosting sports shows in morning
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, middays and afternoons. Late nights and weekends, the
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Network is heard. WJFK-FM is the flagship radio station for the
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team and
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team, and was formerly the flagship for the
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of the
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. For college sports, WJFK-FM carries
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and men's basketball as well as
Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball The Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball program represents Georgetown University in NCAA Division I men's intercollegiate basketball and the Big East Conference. Georgetown has competed in men's college basketball since 1907. The current head co ...
. It also has an agreement with the
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to air programs with players and coaches, although sister station
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is the flagship station for the NFL team.


History


WPRW-FM and WEZR

On April 4, 1961, the station first
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as WPRW-FM. It was owned by the Prince William Broadcasting Company and was the
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to
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WPRW (now
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). The two stations
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their programming, directed mostly to listeners in and around Manassas and
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. WPRW-FM broadcast with an
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of 30,000
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s, but only using a 160-foot tower, so it was unable to cover the larger Washington
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. In 1966, the transmitter was moved to the AM site west of Manassas. In 1967, WPRW-FM was sold to Radio Fairfax-Prince William, a Fairfax-based firm that owned WEEL radio in that city. The transmitter was moved to Fairfax and the call letters changed to WEZR, airing 15-minute sweeps of
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, mostly instrumental
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s of popular songs, including
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and
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showtunes. Ultimately, the entire company renamed itself
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later in 1968, later going on to buy other stations nationwide and apply the format there. A further power boost to 50,000 watts, improving coverage in the Washington market, was approved in 1973. While WEZR and its sister stations remained successful into the 1980s, the easy format was seen as attracting older listeners, while most advertisers were seeking a younger
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. In 1982, EZ tweaked the format used by its three remaining music outlets—WEZR,
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in
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and
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in
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—to add more vocals.


Top 40 and new age

On January 1, 1985, the station flipped to
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as WBMW "B106." It was positioned against two other Washington-area Top 40 stations:
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, owned by
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, and
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, owned by
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. WBMW was acquired by
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-based
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in April 1987. Infinity, at first, flipped WBMW to an
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format, but it only lasted a few weeks. On May 8, 1987, WBMW switched to
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, a forerunner of the
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format. The station simply called itself "106.7 WBMW." The
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included jazz-influenced instrumentals and some
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titles, with limited chatter from the DJs. This format lasted about a year and a half.


Rock and hot talk

On October 3, 1988, the station flipped to an
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format as WJFK, with the new call sign named after
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. The station became the Washington affiliate for the syndicated
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. This marked Stern's return to the market for the first time since he was let go from rival rock station
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in 1982. Over time, WJFK began adding other talk shows targeted at young men, similar to Stern. Eventually WJFK had switched over to a full-time
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format. Programs on the station during this era include Stern,
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,
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,
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, The Greaseman, Bill O'Reilly, Ron & Fez and the
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. In 1991, Infinity began to
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WJFK programming on co-owned
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in
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. That station switched its call letters to WJFK, so 106.7 added an FM
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and became WJFK-FM. From 1995 to 2005 WJFK-FM was the flagship radio station for the then-Washington Redskins (now Washington Commanders). Howard Stern departed his terrestrial network of stations in 2005, including WJFK-FM, when he left for
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. WJFK-FM rebranded as "
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" in October 2005, as part of Infinity's plans for a nationwide hot talk network. (Two months later, Infinity was renamed
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.) The Sports Junkies would move from the midday slot to replace Stern as WJFK-FM's morning hosts. However, the Free FM format did not attract enough listeners, and many of those stations switched to other formats. The "Free FM" branding was dropped by WJFK-FM in 2007, even though it continued a while longer as a hot talk outlet under the slogan "Washington's Talk Superstation."


Sports radio

On July 20, 2009, WJFK-FM became "106.7 The Fan." With WJFK-FM's changeover to "The Fan," The Junkies (who would later change their name back to "The Sports Junkies") were retained, while ''The Big O and Dukes Show'' and ''The
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Show'' were dropped. WJFK-FM acquired the rights to
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basketball and
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baseball. It also began sharing some
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games with
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. For college sports, WJFK-FM became the Washington area home of
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and men's basketball. On March 8, 2009, WJFK-FM signed on the nation's first HD4 subchannel, carrying co-owned sports station
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from
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. This fourth HD subchannel was later dropped, leaving
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in
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on the HD2 subchannel and
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from
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on the HD3 subchannel. On June 21, 2021,
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flipped to a sports gambling format, branded as "The Bet Washington", with programming from the co-owned BetQL Network and CBS Sports Radio. With the flip, WJFK AM shifted its HD simulcast to WJFK-FM-HD3. On January 22, 2010, WJFK announced that it will air a weekly
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show on Sunday evenings. On September 9, 2015, WJFK announced that the station would become the new flagship station for
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games. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with
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. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th. On December 30, 2020, it was announced that Steve Czaban would be working a Saturday morning show, from 9 a.m. to noon ET, replacing his weekday afternoon show on WJFK's Entercom sister station,
WTEM WTEM (980 AM) is a commercial sports radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station services the Washington metropolitan area as the flagship station of the Washington Wizards. WTEM is also the co-flagship st ...
.


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