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The station was first licensed on December 10, 1924, and made its debut broadcast twelve days later, as WRHF[3] at 525 Eleventh Street, with 50 watts on 1170 kHz.

Its initial daily broadcasts, lasting one hour, were "composed entirely of current events and short stories", "intended primarily for the 'shut-ins' of Washington and vicinity who are unable to read newspapers and magazines".

[6] The next year, ownership was transferred to an insurance agent named Leroy Mark, operating as the American Broadcasting Company,[7] unrelated to the later network.

On November 11, 1928, as part of a major reallocation due to the implementation of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, the station was assigned to 1310 kHz, and at the same time changed its call sign to WOL.

WWDC changed its call letters to WGAY in 1999, following the discontinuation of the long-time beautiful music format on 99.5 WGAY-FM.

In early 2003, the station ended the business format and became a full-time audio relay of CNN Headline News; the change was timed to coincide with the start of the Iraq War.

[16] At the outset, WWRC simulcast Imus in the Morning with WTNT;[16] other hosts carried during the station's progressive talk era included Lionel, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Bill Press, Rachel Maddow and Ron Reagan.

[18] On September 15, 2008, WWRC was branded as "Obama 1260" while maintaining its progressive talk format, plus news coverage from CNN and CNBC.

The temporary branding was a stunt coinciding with conservative-oriented sister station WTNT's own rebranding as "McCain 570", and was expected to last throughout the 2008 presidential election.

Chiefly an outlet for the Business Talk Radio Network, the station also carried Ray Lucia and Clark Howard.

In late October 2014, WWRC carried a series of promos alluding to a rebranding to occur after the 2014 midterm elections.