WAMU in Washington, D.C., announced Thursday it will transfer operations of its Bluegrass Country service to a community group. Bluegrass music programming will continue to air on WAMU’s 88.5 HD2 ...

WAMU in Washington, D.C., is looking to sell Bluegrass Country, the music service that it streams online and broadcasts on FM in the Washington area. The station announced Thursday that it has ...

The WAMU bluegrass purge threatens to silence legendary country DJ Jerry Gray. It’s one of those mostly unsung happenstances: the way a DJ snags a place in your heart and wins your loyalty. For many ...

Update: Hear the broadcast Wednesday night, September 25, 8-10 p.m. on WUNC and WAMU Bluegrass Country. Later this month bluegrass musicians toting their banjos, mandolins and fiddles will flock to ...

Gerald Poulsen, the WAMU radio host known on air as Jerry Gray, whose popular weekday and Saturday afternoon shows helped make the Washington station one of the nation’s principal broadcast outlets ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On July 3, 1967, with FM radio still in its infancy, American University brought a piece of musical Americana to listeners across the metropolitan area for the very first time. With ...

WAMU-FM (88.5) has put Bluegrass Country, its bluegrass offshoot, up for sale. Without a buyer, it could fall silent by the end of the year. (Lisa M. Bolton/The Washington Post) At 6:30 p.m. on July 2 ...

The National Association of Broadcasters announced the winner of the third annual NAB HD Radio Multicast Award. Washington DC’s WAMU-FM will receive the award for their Bluegrass Country (BGC) station ...