Contents - Front Page - Mailbag - News - Nostalgia - Support DCRTV Welcome to Washington DC & Baltimore Area Radio & Television, DCRTV for short. DCRTV was created in 1997 and is an independent, non-profit forum about radio and television (including cable) in the Washington DC and Baltimore area. DCRTV is not connected to or aligned with any organization or company and is solely the creation of me, Dave Hughes, a freelance writer living in the Washington area. I've been a radio & TV freak since my childhood. I grew up in the New York and the Philadelphia areas and was a big fan of top forty WFIL and WIBG, as well as powerhouse WABC. I moved to the Washington DC area and became a WPGC and WEAM fan. As my musical tastes transformed from contemporary hits to progressive rock I switched to then-WGTB and the old WHFS. Over the years I've done a lot of "DXing" on the broadcast and shortwave bands as well as on my travels throughout North America and Europe. I have a degree in communication arts and political science from James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley. I've worked as a court/politics/police reporter for Times Community Newspapers, a Northern Virginia newspaper chain, and Associated Press. I've been news editor of Radio World and TV Technology newspapers in Falls Church, Virginia, and Washington bureau chief of New York City-based PSN Publications. I've also written for Television Broadcast, Government & Military Video, and Videography magazines, and the RadioDigest website. I currently operate a writing, reporting, and research service. For more about what I'm into, visit Daveland. DCRTV is your central "web source" for news about area radio, TV and cable. Here you'll find links to stories in a wide range of publications (in print and on the internet) including the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Reuters, the Associated Press, All-Access, Radio & Records, Broadcasting & Cable, and many others, in addition to our own newsgathering efforts. DCRTV also eagerly welcomes your comments via our lively Mailbag. DCRTV's Front Page is updated daily and is your one-stop source for timely, local radio, TV and cable news. So go explore DCRTV. Start with the Contents page. There'll you find links to our technical and historical pages, photo galleries, Jingleland, and station listings. Please let me know your impressions at dcrtv@hotmail.com. Have fun. Oh, here's what folks are saying about us: "Dcrtv.com, the most valuable place on the Internet for news and gossip about local television and radio." - Washington Times, 12/25/02 "We're totally geeked on this mix of responsibly moderated rumor and innuendo. The dcrtv.com is an amusement park of TV and radio minutiae, and we guess now maybe we're gonna have to cough up a few bucks and become a supporter." - Baltimore's City Paper, 9/17/03 "Dave, thank you for keeping radio alive on your website." - DC TV/radio veteran Johnny Holliday "DCRTV is a daily must!" - Washington Post columnist Bob Levey "Thanks for the great job with DCRTV." - DC radio veteran Bob Duckman "Thanks for all the work you do on the site... It's sometimes hard to get industry news first hand. It's great to hear about old friends and co-workers. keep on doing the great work you do!" - Dude Walker, former WRQX morning man, now voice of the Don and Mike show