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. 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. The team's previous longtime broadcast home was previously WTEM, by virtue of previously being owned by Red Zebra Broadcasting through former team owner Daniel Snyder.
+ List of team broadcasters Year Play-by-play Analyst(s) 1937 Tony Wakeman 1938 1939 1940 1941 Harry Wismer 1942 1943 Jim Gibbons 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 Mel Allen 1953 Mel Allen and Jim Gibbons Jim Gibbons and Bill Malone 1954 Jim Gibbons Bill Malone 1955 Eddie Gallaher Charlie Justice 1956 Arch McDonald 1957 1958 Dan Daniels 1959 1960 1961 Bill McColgan Morrie Siegel 1962 1963 1964 Steve Gilmartin Chuck Drazenovich 1965 1966 1967 1968 Mal Campbell 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 Mal Campbell Len Hathaway 1975 Len Hathaway Sam Huff 1976 1977 Dan Lovett 1978 1979 Frank Herzog 1980 1981 Sonny Jurgensen and Sam Huff 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Larry Michael 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Chris Cooley and Sonny Jurgensen 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Chris Cooley 2020 Bram WeinsteinDeAngelo Hall and Julie Donaldson 2021 2022London Fletcher and Julie Donaldson20232024London Fletcher and Logan Paulsen20252026
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