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WPGC-FM (95.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Morningside, Maryland, and serving the Washington metropolitan area. It is owned by Audacy, Inc., and airs an urban contemporary format.
WPGC-FM has studios in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Southeast D.C., with its transmitter located off Walker Mill Road at Tanow Place in Capitol Heights, Maryland. In 2005, WPGC began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. The HD2 digital subchannel carries a simulcast of WJFK-FM.
The station signed on the air on January 18, 1948, at 7 a.m., on 96.7 MHz with the call sign WBUZ. WBUZ was owned by Arthur Baldwin Curtis, president of Chesapeake Broadcasting Company, Incorporated, and was located in Bradbury Heights. WBUZ-FM broadcasting with an effective radiated power of 420 watts. The call letters were a play on the word "bus", as WBUZ broadcast background music for a Prince George's County, Maryland based bus company.
In May 1953, WBUZ-FM raised power to 6,300 watts and its city of license was changed to Oakland, Maryland (near District Heights; not the Western Maryland town). Then on June 8, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a permit to the station to raise power from 6.3 to 18 kilowatts. WBUZ-FM changed frequency from 96.7 to 95.5 Megahertz and power was reduced to 16.5 kilowatts from a new transmitter and tower site on Walker Mill Road in Oakland. The calls were changed to WRNC on March 30, 1956. By the end of the year, WRNC was simulcasting WPGC (AM). The ERP was reduced to 15.7 kilowatts while the power increase authorized for WPGC (AM) in 1955 to 10,000 watts daytime only.
WPGC-AM, Inc., purchased WRNC in 1956. The calls were changed to WPGC-FM in March 1958. WPGC-FM temporarily went silent until February 1959, as new studios were being constructed for the top 40 format. Though the calls have always stood for Prince George's County for the county Morningside resides in, during the 70s and early 80s an alternate contest slogan had them standing for Where People Get Cash on-air.
WPGC-FM maintained some form of the top 40 format (skewed from rock 'n' roll-based to adult contemporary) until 1984, when it flipped to easy listening/adult contemporary. For two years, the station took the calls WCLY and was known on-air as "Classy 95".
Classy 95 ended up being a failure, and First Media sold its stations off to Cook Inlet Radio Partners, a group of Alaska Natives for $177 million in 1987. Cook Inlet returned the WPGC-FM calls on the weekend after Memorial Day on May 30, 1987. The first song under the new format was "Jam On It" by Newcleus, and the new CHR format with an urban lean became much more popular. The station was initially branded WPGC, 95 Jams. In the early 2000s, the branding reverted to simply WPGC 95.5, dropping the Jams moniker from the brand, although it still visibly remained on the station's logo. In August 2009, the station rebranded again to 95-5 PGC.
Donnie Simpson hosted The Donnie Simpson Morning Show during the morning drive from March 1993 to January 29, 2010.
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WPGC-FM
WPGC-FM (95.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Morningside, Maryland, and serving the Washington metropolitan area. It is owned by Audacy, Inc., and airs an urban contemporary format.
WPGC-FM has studios in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Southeast D.C., with its transmitter located off Walker Mill Road at Tanow Place in Capitol Heights, Maryland. In 2005, WPGC began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. The HD2 digital subchannel carries a simulcast of WJFK-FM.
The station signed on the air on January 18, 1948, at 7 a.m., on 96.7 MHz with the call sign WBUZ. WBUZ was owned by Arthur Baldwin Curtis, president of Chesapeake Broadcasting Company, Incorporated, and was located in Bradbury Heights. WBUZ-FM broadcasting with an effective radiated power of 420 watts. The call letters were a play on the word "bus", as WBUZ broadcast background music for a Prince George's County, Maryland based bus company.
In May 1953, WBUZ-FM raised power to 6,300 watts and its city of license was changed to Oakland, Maryland (near District Heights; not the Western Maryland town). Then on June 8, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a permit to the station to raise power from 6.3 to 18 kilowatts. WBUZ-FM changed frequency from 96.7 to 95.5 Megahertz and power was reduced to 16.5 kilowatts from a new transmitter and tower site on Walker Mill Road in Oakland. The calls were changed to WRNC on March 30, 1956. By the end of the year, WRNC was simulcasting WPGC (AM). The ERP was reduced to 15.7 kilowatts while the power increase authorized for WPGC (AM) in 1955 to 10,000 watts daytime only.
WPGC-AM, Inc., purchased WRNC in 1956. The calls were changed to WPGC-FM in March 1958. WPGC-FM temporarily went silent until February 1959, as new studios were being constructed for the top 40 format. Though the calls have always stood for Prince George's County for the county Morningside resides in, during the 70s and early 80s an alternate contest slogan had them standing for Where People Get Cash on-air.
WPGC-FM maintained some form of the top 40 format (skewed from rock 'n' roll-based to adult contemporary) until 1984, when it flipped to easy listening/adult contemporary. For two years, the station took the calls WCLY and was known on-air as "Classy 95".
Classy 95 ended up being a failure, and First Media sold its stations off to Cook Inlet Radio Partners, a group of Alaska Natives for $177 million in 1987. Cook Inlet returned the WPGC-FM calls on the weekend after Memorial Day on May 30, 1987. The first song under the new format was "Jam On It" by Newcleus, and the new CHR format with an urban lean became much more popular. The station was initially branded WPGC, 95 Jams. In the early 2000s, the branding reverted to simply WPGC 95.5, dropping the Jams moniker from the brand, although it still visibly remained on the station's logo. In August 2009, the station rebranded again to 95-5 PGC.
Donnie Simpson hosted The Donnie Simpson Morning Show during the morning drive from March 1993 to January 29, 2010.