WIAD

WIAD is a commercial radio station in Bethesda, Maryland, broadcasting to the Washington, DC area on 94.7 FM. It currently broadcasts a Hot Adult Contemporary format as "94.7 Fresh FM". It is owned by CBS Radio and has studios located in southeast Washington, with transmitter located in Bethesda.

WIAD broadcasts in the HD (digital) format.

History

94.7 FM originally aired a beautiful music format with the call letters, WJMD. The WJMD call letters formed the initials of the previous owners, the Diener brothers (Walter, Jack, Mickey and Dan).

WJMD evolved into a soft adult contemporary music format with a change of call letters to WLTT. Under this format, the station was branded as "W-Lite".

WLTT dropped the soft adult contemporary music format in 1993 in favor of a classic rock music format branded as "The Arrow". A change of call letters followed to WARW to complement the change in branding to "The Arrow". WARW was also billed on-air as "We Always Rock Washington."

94.7 The Globe/Classic Rock 94.7