During his time in the states Walker worked for radio stations KSAN in San Francisco, WHFS ( historic ) in Bethesda, Maryland and also recorded some shows for Radio Luxembourg.

The three hour daily show had affiliates in several major markets, including its flagship station ( WOR ) in New York City, Washington D. C. ( WHFS ), Miami ( WZAB-AM ) and the San Francisco Bay Area ( KDOW ), as well as stations such as WGNY-AM in Newburgh, New York.

The format proved an effective alternative to WIHT and to local stations WWDC ( DC101 ) and WHFS ( HFS 99. 1 ), both of which specialized in hard rock.

WTGB's former DJs, Don " Cerphe " Colwell and Jonathan " Weasel " Gilbert ( he left the station October, 2008 ), have each been involved with Washington radio for nearly 40 years, including stints for both at WHFS.

The WHFS call letters have since relocated first to a talk station on 1580 AM ( now WNEW ), and then to a sister station in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Einstein took the ' HFS call letters with him and WLOM-FM 99. 1 became WHFS ( FM ) in Autumn 1983 with much higher power than the 102. 3 facility.

The station rebranded itself as " The Legendary HFS, Live on 105. 7 ", Infinity Broadcasting moved the WHFS call letters to the station days later.

105. 7 HFS ceased broadcasting mainstream music on February 1, 2007 immediately before KMS on HFS premiered, yet retained the WHFS call letters traditionally associated with the music the station used to broadcast.

This was a radio event sponsored by then WHFS 99. 1 FM.

WHFS was the call sign for three different FM stations in the Washington, D. C ./ Baltimore, Maryland markets on various frequencies for nearly 50 years.

" When Mr. Einstein became general manager of WHFS, the station had been on the air for six years and was lucky to draw 800 listeners a night with its format of pop, light classical and jazz.

' It was Jake's vision that FM radio and rock-and-roll were about to collide ,' said Mr. Einstein's daughter Rose, who briefly worked at WHFS.

' Within months, WHFS was drawing an average nightly audience of 32, 700 listeners.

WHFS studios were now located in a second floor luxury condo at 4853 Cordell Avenue (" Broadcasting from high atop the Triangle Towers ..."; was a phrase often heard over the air ).

According to the Washington Post, the 1978 DJ lineup at WHFS was: Damian Einstein, John " Weasel " Gilbert, David Einstein, Bob " Here " Showacre, Diane Divola, and Tom Grooms.

In the mid-1990s, Liberty Broadcasting published a quarterly magazine titled " WHFS Press " that was mailed to listeners and available in local music outlets.

In 1999, WHFS released a New Music New Video Compilation Volume 1 on VHS that was distributed free at Washington area Tower Records outlets.

At noon on January 12, 2005, 99. 1 WHFS was switched to a Tropical Latin music format.

Media attention was attracted by a public protest in downtown Washington, outside a skate shop where WHFS maintained a remote storefront studio in its last few months.

During this period the WHFS format was moved to HD radio as WHFS 105. 7-HD2 and was known as HFS2.

On November 10, 2008, the WHFS callsign was moved to 1580 AM which dropped its long-time call letters WPGC.

On June 10, 2009, the WHFS alternative format was relaunched as HFS2 once again, now located at WIAD 94. 7-HD2 in Bethesda, Maryland and serving the Washington, DC area.

Thus, CBS moved the WHFS call signs first to a co-owned FM station in West Palm Beach ( and as noted earlier, said station-which was and still is known as " B-106. 3 "-also previously housed the " WNEW " callsign for identical purposes ).

With the support of radio DJs such as Milo from WHFS, Xyra and Steve Lorber ( who played Iggy Pop and the Ramones on his Sunday evening shows in 1976 ) from WGTB, everyone was made welcome, and everyone came.

Held every summer from 1990 through 2006 by radio station WHFS, and annually since 2010 in commemoration of the now-defunct station's legacy, the HFStival was at its peak the largest yearly music festival on the East Coast.

The HFStival began as the WHFS Fourth of July Festival, an all-day concert followed by a fireworks display, which was held twice at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia 1990 and 1991.

The show was syndicated on Sunday afternoons on KTLK AM in Los Angeles and WHFS in Washington D. C.

WHFS was a legendary rock station that broadcast from November 11, 1961 to January 12, 2005 on various frequencies in the Washington area.

WHFS also arranged for her to play a free roadside show on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that was quickly shut down by the police due to the traffic back-ups that it created and landed her a spot opening for They Might Be Giants at a sold-out show in Washington, DC, the singer having been banned from playing clubs in her hometown of Annapolis due to controversial lyrics.

A daily topical humor " news " show, " The Daily Feed ", aired for much of the 1980s on WHFS.

The WHFS calls were then moved to an FM station in West Palm Beach, Florida, otherwise branded as " B-106. 3 " ( and which previously housed the WNEW calls for several years prior ).

Once the concert went on, however, the audience's enthusiasm paved the way for WHFS to include more artists from outside the station's normal playlist on the HFStival's stages — which would, in future years, include more hip hop acts, electronica artists, and such disparate musicians as crooner Tony Bennett and performance artists the Blue Man Group.

Baltimore morning radio presenters Kirk McEwen and Mark Ondayko left the company and started on WHFS 105. 7 FM on February 1, 2007, taking over for the Sports Junkies.

This did not stop local radio station WHFS from playing the song daily for several weeks.

On December 1, 2011, WHFS changed their call letters to WNEW as a placeholder move in preparation for those call letters to be installed on the FM dial in a lateral swap.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, HFStival, held by the WHFS radio station, established itself as an extremely popular annual festival, and became a major draw across the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.

WOR switched to an oldies format and Murray the K left New York radio to host programs in Toronto-on CHUM-and on WHFS in the Washington, D. C. area.

From 1993 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2004, former rock radio station WHFS held its annual HFStival rock concert at RFK Stadium.

Early advertising on D. C .' s WHFS radio featured the motto " 9: 30-a Place in Time!

Local radio legends Don " Cerphe " Colwell and Jonathan " Weasel " Gilbert began their careers when they joined WHFS in the early 1970s.

AOL, which had a partnership with Infinity Broadcasting and recognized that many people would miss the old WHFS format, quickly launched an internet-only streaming radio station with a playlist much like that of WHFS.

She had a radio career herself, working as a producer and part-time disc jockey in the 1980s at Washington-area stations WHFS, WASH-FM, and WAVA.

AOL, which had a partnership with Infinity Broadcasting and recognized that many people would miss the old WHFS format, quickly launched an internet-only streaming radio station with a playlist much like that of WHFS.

The following year, Maryland alternative radio station WHFS released a compilation of performances from its Just Passin ' Thru program, and included the track.

With the flip of WHFS to WJZ-FM and sports radio, WJZ now has limited local programming on the weekends and is simply a relay of the ESPN national feed the majority of the time.