<P> The station was the original home of WOL, and signed on in 1928 . A station / callsign swap with WWDC (1450 AM) on February 20, 1950 landed the WWDC call letters on 1260 kHz for the rest of the century . During the 1960s, radio personalities such as Jimmy Dean and Fred Fiske had programs on this station . The format was middle - of - the - road . It staked out a place in radio and music history by being the first American radio station to play a Beatles song when it played "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963 . </P> <P> During the 1970s, WWDC was a moderately popular Top 40 station . In 1981, the station began simulcast of the morning and afternoon drive shows on sister FM Rock station WWDC - FM ("DC101"), with separate shows and the same music format during other dayparts . In 1984, it broke off the simulcast completely and became an Adult Standards station . </P> <P> WWDC changed its call letters to WGAY in 1999, following the dropping of the long - time beautiful music format that was WGAY - FM (which became WJMO - FM and then WIHT). WGAY kept its adult standards format nonetheless until Clear Channel Communications bought the station with the AMFM merger in 2000 . On April 9, 2001, the standards format was dropped, and the business news format and WWRC callsign were moved from 570 AM to 1260 AM . It thus inherited the legacy of another heritage Washington station, which had originally been on 980 AM before changing dial positions with WTEM in 1992 . Still, there were difficulties finding a format for the station that was different from the other Clear Channel stations in the Washington metropolitan area . </P> <P> Until 2005, the station carried the business talk format, a full - time audio relay of CNN Headline News, and sports talk programming (as "Sports Talk 1260", a supplement to sister station WTEM), then switched to progressive talk and became an Air America Radio affiliate . Hosts under the station's progressive talk format included Lionel, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Bill Press, Rachel Maddow and Ron Reagan . </P>

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