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For other uses, see WHFS (disambiguation).

Radio station

WHFS was the call sign for three successive FM stations in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore markets that broadcast on various frequencies for nearly 50 years.

The first station in the area to broadcast in FM stereo, it was long a progressive rock station.

History

1960s

WHFS began broadcasting on November 11, 1961, on 102.3 FM in Bethesda, Maryland.

Its call sign stood for "Washington High Fidelity Stereo" (WHFS), advertising that it was the first station in the Washington metropolitan area to broadcast in FM stereo.^[1] It was originally located in a 20-by-20-foot (6.1 m × 6.1 m) space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with its antenna on the roof.

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Its original format was classical, with jazz after 10 p.m. The first employee was Marlin R. Taylor, who started three months before HFS went on the air and left in April 1963. (Jesse) Alvin