WTEM

WTEM (980 AM) — branded ESPN 980 — is a sports radio station licensed to Washington, D.C. and serving the Washington metro area. It is the flagship of a sports talk trimulcast with WWXT in Prince Frederick, Maryland and WWXX in Buckland, Virginia, all affiliated with ESPN Radio and owned by Red Zebra Broadcasting.

ESPN 980 is the home of the Mike and Mike show, the Tony Kornheiser show, the Sports Fix with Kevin Sheehan and Thom Loverro, Inside the Locker Room with Doc Walker and Brian Mitchell, and the Sports Reporters with Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin.

WTEM is also the flagship radio station for Washington Redskins football (as Red Zebra is operated by Redskins owner Daniel Snyder) and Georgetown Hoyas basketball. "ESPN 980" airs Maryland Terrapins football & basketball and Baltimore Orioles baseball as an affiliate station, as well as the University of Virginia football and basketball. ESPN 980 is also the exclusive home of the Play-by-Play broadcasts for University of Virginia Football and Basketball, MLB and World Series, NBA and NBA Finals, NFL and Super Bowl, and NCAA Football and BCS. ESPN 980 is also the home for regular season NCAA Basketball, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, NCAA's Frozen Four, and NCAA's Lax Championship.

WTEM's studios are located in Rockville, Maryland, and its transmitter is located in Hyattsville, Maryland. It operates with 50,000 watts power during the day and 5,000 watts power at night. The signal can be heard weakly but clearly as far west as Clarksburg, West Virginia, and as far south as Richmond, Virginia in daytime. The FM stations both broadcast below 3,000 watts and mainly serve to fill in the gaps in WTEM's coverage.

Prior to July 21, 2008, WTEM was known as SportsTalk 980, used the slogan The Voice of the Fan, and was the DC outlet for Fox Sports Radio. Beforehand, WTEM was the Washington, DC affiliate for ESPN Radio before Red Zebra Broadcasting acquired the rights for its Triple X ESPN Radio trimulcast, which ended up merging with WTEM.