WAVA-FM (105.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Arlington, Virginia, and serving the Washington metro area.

[4] The station is owned and operated by the Salem Media Group, and airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format.

Hosts include Chuck Swindoll, Jim Daly, John MacArthur, Michael Youssef, Greg Laurie, David Jeremiah, Alistair Begg, Charles Stanley and J. Vernon McGee.

In 1946, Northern Virginia Broadcasters, Inc., which owned WARL (780 AM, now WAVA), received a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to put an FM radio station on the air.

Meanwhile, WTOP was owned by the Washington Post, was a CBS Radio Network affiliate and had a 50,000 watt signal; because of this, WAVA-AM-FM were at a competitive disadvantage as an all-news outlet.

In 1992, due to financial problems after the purchase of the Seattle Mariners, Emmis decided to sell many of its stations at lower-than-market-value prices.

[13] On February 12, 1992, at midnight, after playing a montage of station memories, WAVA went off the air, with "Goodbye" by Night Ranger as the final song.

WAVA-FM and KKLA-FM Los Angeles are the only Salem FM stations in large cities broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format.