- Washington Post Radio
Washington Post Radio was a short-lived attempt by
Bonneville Broadcasting and theWashington Post to create a commercial long-formall-news radio network in the style ofNational Public Radio . The small network of stations based in theWashington, DC area occupied the AM 1500 frequency, which up to the point of the founding of "WPR" was the home of Bonneville's all-newsWTOP , and is set to be given toWFED .WTWP AM/FM, WTWT and W282BA all were former frequencies and simulcasts of sister station
WTOP . WTWP AM/FM were spun off the WTOP simulcast onMarch 30 ,2006 with the sign-on of "Washington Post Radio" as WTWP AM/FM. The primary AM station had been WTOP since 1940 (and dates its' history back toBrooklyn, New York stationWTRC in 1926), while WTWP-FM had been a simulcast of WTOP since 1998. WWWB had simulcast WTOP since 2001, before switching to a simulcast of WTWP as WTWT on June 28, 2007.During the weekday hours, WTWP provided news and commentary in a long-form style similar to that of
National Public Radio , but on a commercial station staffed and programmed jointly by theWashington Post andWTOP . From 8 PM to 5 AM ET, the station was programmed as a general interesttalk radio station, featuring hosts such asClark Howard ,Larry King andJim Bohannon . On weekends, WTWP rebroadcast programs produced byRadio Netherlands andGeorge Washington University ."
The Tony Kornheiser Show ", hosted by "Post" columnist, host ofESPN 's "Pardon the Interruption ", and "Monday Night Football " analystTony Kornheiser , moved to WTWP on February 20, 2007. [http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=1041038] The program aired weekday mornings from 8:30 to 10:30, and was replayed from 10:30 to 12:30 pm and at other times of the day. Kornheiser left the program at the end of June, 2007 to resume his Monday Night Football duties (Post Radio anchor David Burd, among others, will fill in the post until Kornheiser returns after the 2007-08 season).WTWP, like WTOP and WWWT, was a member of the
CBS Radio Network , and retransmitted the audio portion of the CBS television showsFace the Nation and60 Minutes .Demise
The Washington Post reported that they would discontinue the "Washington Post Radio" service after Bonneville decided to pull the plug, citing financial losses and low ratings. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701332.html]
Bonneville International officially launched personality driven talk format "Talk Radio 3WT," with the
WWWT call letters onSeptember 20 ,2007 . Kornheiser's show, still produced in agreement with the Post, returned to the station in January 2008 and ran again through June 2008. 3WT, in turn, will be dissembled in fall 2008, and its frequencies will be given back toWFED andWTOP .External links
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostradio/ Official site]
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