WMZQ 98.7 FM

WMZQ 98.7 FM is Washington, D.C.'s country music station, serving the nation's capital and its vast suburban Virginia and Maryland audience with a mainstream country format that has made it one of the most-listened-to country stations on the East Coast. Country music has a large and deeply loyal following in the D.C. region — driven partly by Virginia's extraordinarily deep country and bluegrass traditions, where the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains have been producing country artists and devoted fans for generations. WMZQ has been the D.C. market's home for the country format for decades, playing the current country chart hits alongside the modern country classics that built its audience across the entire D.C.-Maryland-Virginia corridor. The station serves a listener base that ranges from Northern Virginia's suburban communities to the rural countryside of western Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley, a geographic span that reflects the remarkable breadth of country music's appeal in a region that includes both the nation's center of political power and some of its most authentically rural communities. WMZQ connects its D.C.-area listeners to the Nashville mainstream while respecting the traditional country roots that make the format genuinely meaningful to its Virginia and Maryland base. For country fans in the DMV who want their music on the FM dial, WMZQ 98.7 FM is the station. Stream free online.