WEER WRCW's original call letters were WEER. In September 1957 the O.K. Broadcasting Company was issued a
construction permit for a 500 watt, daytime-only station on 1250 AM in Warrenton, Virginia. WEER received its first license on January 18, 1958.
WPRZ On January 26, 1982, the station's call letters were changed to WPRZ, for "Praise Radio", as the station adopted a
Christian radio format. On September 30, 2007, WPRZ signed off after being sold to Metro Radio, Inc. on August 15, 2007, for $1.1 million. The Christian format was continued online-only for a time and now resides at
WPRZ-FM 88.1.
WKDL On October 12, 2007, the call letters became WKDL, and the station adopted a Spanish language
talk format. The WKDL call letters had been used in the mid-1990s at 1050 AM in Silver Spring, Maryland (current
WBQH), which at the time was co-owned with
WKDV 1460 AM in Manassas, Virginia, with both stations affiliates of the children-oriented
Radio AAHS network. On May 21, 2008, the station switched to a
classic country format. In mid-November, the country format was abruptly dropped for
brokered programming. From January 31, 2011, until February 2012, WKDL simulcast the talk format of
WTNT (730 AM) in Alexandria, Virginia on a full-time basis. Its programming lineup consisted mostly of
Talk Radio Network offerings, particularly ''America's Morning News
, The Laura Ingraham Show, America's Radio News Network
, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Savage Nation, The Rusty Humphries Show and The Phil Hendrie Show''. WKDL was sold to Salem Communications in February 2012 for $10,000. This purchase was mainly so Salem could make engineering changes that would allow it to double the daytime power of WWRC (1260 AM) to 10,000 watts. To make way for the improved WWRC signal, WKDL's daytime power was reduced from 5,000 watts to 3,000 watts, and a strong directional antenna was designed to send most of the station's signal southwestward, away from Washington D.C.
WRCW On July 23, 2014, the station changed its call sign to WRCW. The station served as a southwestern relay of the conservative talk programming on WWRC. WRCW continued simulcasting
WWRC when it moved to
570 AM in November 2017, ahead of Salem's sale of the 1260 AM facility (now
WQOF). The
Federal Communications Commission cancelled WRCW's license on April 17, 2025. ==References==