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WQOF is a Catholic radio station licensed to Washington, D.C., operating at 1260 AM and owned by Relevant Radio. The station began airing Catholic programming on the 14th of May 2019, when Immaculate Heart Media completed its $750,000 purchase and changed the call sign from WWRC to WQOF.
The station was first licensed on the 10th of December 1924, under the call letters WRHF, which stood for Washington Radio Hospital Fund. Its debut broadcast came twelve days later from studios at 525 Eleventh Street NW in Washington, D.C., transmitting at 50 watts on 1170 kHz.
WWDC at 1260 AM in Washington, D.C., was the first American radio station to air a Beatles song, playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963. At the time, the station's format was middle-of-the-road, with personalities including Jimmy Dean and Fred Fiske on its lineup.
"Obama 1260" was a temporary election-season rebrand adopted by WWRC on the 15th of September 2008, while the station was carrying progressive talk programming. It mirrored the simultaneous renaming of conservative sister station WTNT as "McCain 570," and the Obama 1260 name persisted past Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on the 20th of January 2009.
WWRC's ratings were extremely low during its progressive talk period. The Washington Post described the station's December 2006 numbers as "an almost imperceptible audience," and the station recorded a .4 rating in summer 2008 and a .1 rating in winter 2008.
Immaculate Heart Media purchased the station for $750,000. The sale was announced on the 25th of March 2019 and completed on the 14th of May 2019, at which point the call sign changed from WWRC to WQOF and Relevant Radio's Catholic format began.