WAMU 88.5 is the leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the greater Washington D.C. area. It is member-supported, professionally-staffed, and licensed to American University. Since 1961, WAMU 88.5 has provided programming to an audience of listeners that now totals 793,000.*
The station's 24-hour format blends a unique mixture of news, public affairs talk programming, and traditional American music. Home to a team of award-winning local reporters and acclaimed talk radio hosts, such as Joshua Johnson and Kojo Nnamdi, WAMU 88.5 offers comprehensive coverage of local, national and international events. During the week, WAMU 88.5 focuses on news and information with 1A, The Kojo Nnamdi Show and programming from NPR, PRI, APM, and the BBC. Weekends offer listeners a variety of news, entertainment and traditional American music with internationally recognized hosts Rob Bamberger and Murray Horwitz.
Deeply committed to the D.C. metro area, WAMU 88.5 produces regular and special programming that reflects the unique environment of the D.C. metro area. The WAMU Community Council, a citizens'_ advisory panel, sponsors forums to find ways that radio can shed light on difficult problems and complicated issues.
* 2014 Nielsen, Inc., All rights reserved, National Regional Database Report Spring 2014, Metro 6+ AQH Persons, Washington, DC Metro, Mon-Sun 6am-Mid
- Company Name:Wamu 88.5
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Headquarters: (View Map)Washington, DC, United States
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Broadcast Media
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50 - 200 employees
- 169924 Global Rank
- 34786 United States
- 498 K Estimated Visits
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Search49.60%
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Direct42.84%
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Referrals3.67%
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Social3.26%
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Mail0.52%
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Display0.11%
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80.75%
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4.22%
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1.79%
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1.44%
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Native0.00%
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Standard100.00%
They are headquartered at Washington, DC, United States, and have 2 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. Wamu 88.5 works with Advertising technology companies such as DoubleClick.Net, Google Adsense for Search, Google Ad Partner Services, Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, Openads/OpenX, Facebook Custom Audiences, Google Publisher Tag, Switch Ads, Aggregate Knowledge, Google AdSense Integrator, The Trade Desk, AppNexus, Advertising.com, Rubicon Project, AOL-Time Warner Online Advertising, PHP Ads, Weather Plus, Google Direct, Ads.txt, Less than 5 Ads.txt, Less than 5 DIRECT Ads.txt.