The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area. They are members of the East division in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The Commanders were founded in as the Boston Braves, named after the local baseball franchise.[1] The franchise changed its name the following year to the Redskins and moved to Washington, D.C. in . In, the team retired the Redskins name after longstanding controversies surrounding it and briefly played as the Washington Football Team before becoming the Commanders in .
The team's flagship station is WBIG-FM (Big 100.3), having been selected as the team's broadcast partner after following a partnership with iHeartMedia in 2022.[2] The team's previous longtime broadcast home was previously WTEM, by virtue of previously being owned by Red Zebra Broadcasting, a group co-owned by Snyder.[3]
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| 1937 | Tony Wakeman[4] | |
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| 1941 | Harry Wismer | |
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| 1943 | Jim Gibbons | |
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| 1952 | Mel Allen | |
| 1953 | Mel Allen[5] and Jim Gibbons[6] | Jim Gibbons and Bill Malone |
| 1954 | Bill Malone[7] | |
| 1955 | Eddie Gallaher[8] | Charlie Justice |
| 1956 | Arch McDonald | |
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| 1958 | Dan Daniels[9] | |
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| 1961 | Bill McColgan[10] | Morrie Siegel[11] |
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| 1964 | Steve Gilmartin | Chuck Drazenovich[12] |
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| 1968 | Mal Campbell | |
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| 1974 | Mal Campbell | Len Hathaway |
| 1975 | Len Hathaway[13] | Sam Huff |
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| 1977 | Dan Lovett | |
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| 1979 | Frank Herzog | |
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| 1981 | Sonny Jurgensen and Sam Huff | |
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| 2013 | Chris Cooley and Sonny Jurgensen | |
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| 2019 | Chris Cooley | |
| 2020 | Bram Weinstein | DeAngelo Hall and Julie Donaldson |
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| 2022 | London Fletcher and Julie Donaldson | |
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