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 ...

Alternative rock station WHFS (99.1 FM) bit the dust yesterday, unexpectedly switching to a Spanish-language and music format – a decision that jolted the station’s many fans. “There was no notice and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1 of this series we introduced readers to the upcoming documentary, “Feast Your Ears, The Story Of WHFS 102.3,” about the iconic 1960s/70s/early 80s Washington, DC, area FM radio station WHFS.

In a surprising move, Infinity Radio has converted 20-year modern rock bastion WHFS Washington, D.C., to Spanish, as "El Zol" 99.1. The station will play a mixture of salsa, merengue and bachata… By ...

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 ...

CBS is hoping to find multicast success by promoting the return of a past popular format and familiar call letters to the Washington market. It has kicked off the return of WHFS via the HD2 channel of ...

A few days ago, DCist wondered if there was a chance that WHFS “could get resurrected.” Today, we have what we think may be an answer to that question. A tipster who works for a radio trade ...