WPFW

WPFW
City	Washington, D.C.
Broadcast area	Washington, D.C.
Slogan	Your Station for Jazz & Justice
Frequency	89.3 MHz
First air date	February 28, 1977
Format	Jazz, public affairs
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	125 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	51255
Callsign meaning	Pacifica Foundation Washington
Owner	Pacifica Foundation, Inc.
Webcast
Website	www.wpfwfm.org

WPFW, an FM station at 89.3 MHz, is the Washington, DC station owned by Pacifica Radio. The station first went on the air in 1977. Aside from syndicated Pacifica programs such as Democracy Now!, much of its programming is locally produced and dedicated to jazz, blues, classic soul music and international or world music.

As a public station, WPFW is commercial-free and listener-sponsored.

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Radio stations in the Washington, D.C. market

By AM frequency	Washington, D.C. 630 980 1120 1260 1340 1450 1500 Maryland 540 570 900 950 1030 1050 1160 1540 1560 1580 1600 Northern Virginia 730 780 920 1190 1220 1250 1310 1390 1460 1480

By FM frequency	Washington, D.C. 88.5 89.3 90.1 90.9 93.9 96.3 97.1 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 103.5 107.3 Maryland 88.1 91.9 92.7 94.3 94.7 95.5 99.1 99.9 102.3 104.1 107.9 Northern Virginia 87.7 89.9 94.3 96.7 97.5 97.7 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio	162.45 162.55

By callsign	KHB36 W249BE WACA WAMU WASH WAVA WAVA-FM WBIG-FM WBQH WCRW WCSP-FM WCTN WDCH-FM WDCN-LP WDCT WERA-LP WETA WFAX WFED WFRE WGOP WGTS WHUR-FM WIAD WIHT WILC WJEV-LP WJFK WJFK-FM WKDV WKIK WKIK-FM WKYS WLXE WLZL WMAL WMAL-FM WMET WMMJ WMUC-FM WMZQ-FM WNG736 WOL WOWD-LP WPER WPFW WPGC-FM WPRS-FM WPWC WRCW WRQX WSPZ WTEM WTNT WTOP-FM WURA WUST WWDC WWGB WWRC WWWT-FM WWXT WWXX WYCB WZHF

Defunct Stations	WCAP WGMS WTWP WWZZ WGTB WHFS (FM)

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 214 Sirius Channel 152 Washington, D.C. metro markets Frederick, MD Fredericksburg, VA Baltimore See also List of radio stations in Washington, D.C. List of radio stations in Virginia List of radio stations in Maryland

Stations

Programs

Personnel

Current	Dennis Bernstein Blase Bonpane Don Bustany Deepa Fernandes Jack Foley Jim Freund Amy Goodman Juan González Doug Henwood Michio Kaku Sasha Lilley Mwiza Munthali Jeremy Scahill Roy Tuckman Rickey Vincent

Former	Margot Adler Aimee Allison Charles Amirkhanian Erik Bauersfeld Larry Bensky Mary Frances Berry Jerry Brown Pratap Chatterjee Marc Cooper Bob Fass Laurie Garrett Adi Gevins Aaron Glantz Dorothy Healey Lewis Hill Stephen Hill Pauline Kael Saul Landau Sharon Maeda Julianne Malveaux William Mandel Richard Pryor Kenneth Rexroth Nicole Sawaya Susan Stone Chris Strachwitz Elsa Knight Thompson Alan Watts

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