WCSP-FM

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WCSP-FM, C-SPAN Radio

City of license	Washington, DC
Broadcast area	Washington, DC-Baltimore, MD (FM) United States (SDARS)
First air date	1997
Frequency	FM 90.1 MHz XM 132 SIRIUS 139
Format	Public Affairs
ERP	36,000 watts
Class	Class B Non-Commercial FM Station Satellite Radio Station
Callsign meaning	C-SPan
Owner	National Cable Satellite Corporation (C-SPAN)

WCSP-FM, C-SPAN Radio, is a radio station licensed to Washington, D.C. in the United States. The station broadcasts on 90.1 MHz and is on-air 24 hours a day. WCSP is the only broadcast station licensed to the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN); its studios are located on Capitol Hill.

The station was originally licensed to Georgetown University under the callsign WGTB, and was programmed by Georgetown students with a progressive rock format. (WGTB's slogan was "One Nation Underground".) In 1979, the administration at Georgetown decided that the station did not fit with the public image they desired for the University, and sold the station to the University of the District of Columbia for $1. Under UDC ownership, WGTB became WDCU, with a jazz format. In mid-1997, at the height of a city-wide budgetary crisis, the school sold WDCU to C-SPAN.

C-SPAN had wanted for some time to establish a radio service which would complement its television services. With the purchase of WDCU, the network was finally able to realize this ambition. C-SPAN Radio broadcasts public-affairs programming, including some audio simulcasts of C-SPAN's flagship television programs like Washington Journal and some radio-only programming such as the famous tape-recorded Oval Office conversations from the Johnson and Nixon administrations, oral histories, and some committee meetings and press conferences not shown on television due to programming commitments. In addition to WCSP-FM, C-SPAN Radio programming is also available online and via satellite radio on XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.

[edit] External link

• C-SPAN Radio website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WCSP-FM