Thursday, March 21, 2013

DC Area Radio: Hubbard Ends The Fed Simulcast On 820 AM

Hubbard Broadcasting is flipping it’s 820 AM signal licensed to Fredrick, Maryland to an eclectic music format The Gamut.

The outlet is dropping its simulcast of Federal News Radio, which remains on  WFED1500 AM and at federalnewsradio.com. The 820 signal will keep the WWFD call and continue to carry sports events, including the Capitals, Wizards, and Ravens, plus weekend paid programming, according to DCRTV.

The Gamut will also be heard on the HD Radio digital FM subchannels of all-newser WTOP's 103.5 and 107.7 signals.

The Gamut is described as a cross-section of music genres and features an array of recorded music types that span from pre-World War II to present day. The sampling of artists includes Boney M, Doris Day, Devo, Mumford And Sons, Scissor Sister, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash.

"Our hope is that by being on 820 AM listeners will sample The Gamut and then want to listen on our HD signal at 103.5-3 as well," says Joel Oxley, who heads Hubbard's DC radio cluster.

The format boasts an extensive 10,000 song library from WTOP engineer Dave Kolesar. Sam Brown is consulting.

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