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5 unusual facts about WTOP-FM


Ira Mellman

Mellman keeps a picture of former WTOP reporter and anchorman Ira Mellman on the front of his door.

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WTOP-FM 103.5, a radio station in Washington, D.C., or one of its repeaters

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Among those working for WTOP during this time were Sam Donaldson, later on ABC-TV; Jim Bohannon, who took Larry King's place on his all-night radio network talk show after King went to CNN; and including Ralph Begleiter and Jamie MacIntyre, both of whom went to CNN.

The station also features regular commentaries from figures such as Cal Thomas, Wolf Blitzer, and Gwen Ifill, among many others, at specific times during the week.

Previously, WTOP had used weather reports from WJLA chief meteorologist Doug Hill during morning and evening rush hours and The Weather Channel all other times.


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Hechinger

Their sponsorship of the 11:00 p.m. newscast at T.V. station WTOP in Washington, D.C., was a first, according to Walter Cronkite (an anchor of those broadcasts) in his autobiography A Reporter's Life.

Laura Mansfield

Mansfield frequently appears on a wide array of mainly-US networks such as CNN and CNN International, FoxNews, Fox News UK, Israel National Radio, BBC, and CBN as well as numerous radio stations across the US such as KGO Radio News in San Francisco, America at Night, WDEL, WFED, WTOP, the Laurie Roth Show, the Tom Bauerle Show, and the Carl Wigglesworth Show, as well as working for many unnamed Fortune 500 companies.

Phil Graham

The following year the Post/CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.

Roger Mudd

In the late 1950s, Mudd moved to Washington, D.C., to become a reporter with WTOP News, the news division of the radio and television stations owned by Post-Newsweek.

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WBQH 1050, a radio station licensed to Silver Spring, Maryland, United States that held the call sign WTOP during 2010

WHUR-FM 96.3, a radio station in Washington, D.C. that held the WTOP-FM call letters from the early 1960s until 1971

Wiltshire Traditional Orchards Project, an organisation that maps, conserves and restores traditional orchards within Wiltshire, United Kingdom

WFED 1500, an AM radio station in Washington, D.C. that held the WTOP call letters from 1943 until 2005


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