D-C Radio: Get A Peek At New WTOP Studios

The WTOP website calls it the start of a new age as Hubbard's All-News station gets acquiainted to it new studios.  Over the weekend WTOP bid adieu to its old Idaho Avenue location for a shiny, space-age pasture just up the street in Maryland.

It was bittersweet signing off from the old studio for a final time, but WTOP’s glimmering, state-of-the-art newsroom in Friendship Heights has all the technology and amenities Washington’s Top News needs to accommodate an expanding round-the-clock news operation.

With more than 30,000 square feet of office space, 47 editor’s stations, hundreds of screens and a brand-new Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center (now with more glass), the Wisconsin Avenue building is a beast of a newsroom. It almost feels like something out of “Star Trek.”

The new facility will be the first time in years that WTOP and its sister station, Federal News Network, have shared the same office space.

WTOP said goodbye to our longtime home in Northwest D.C. for new studios in Friendship Heights, Md. The big on-air switchover was Saturday. So, how did it go? See for yourself with this exclusive inside peek inside the new Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center. pic.twitter.com/DBO8fR1ujy

— WTOP (@WTOP) February 3, 2019