WJLA In Joint Traffic Venture With WTOP

Allbritton’s ABC affiliate WJLA Washington (DMA 8) and Hubbard Broadcasting’s all-news WTOP-FM today announced a new joint partnership to provide area commuters with real-time traffic information.

Under the arrangement, WTOP will become the exclusive morning traffic home to WJLA.

Beginning Tuesday, April 30, WJLA Reporter Amanda Meadows will be reporting live from the WTOP “Glass-enclosed nerve center” during WJLA’s Good Morning Washington. The reports will air six times an hour from 5 to 7 a.m. and twice an hour from 7 to 9 a.m. weekday mornings. Meadows’ reports will be produced by veteran traffic reporter/producer Rob Woodfork.

“This new traffic partnership will provide ABC7 viewers with up-to-the-minute traffic information before they get behind the wheel, while reinforcing WTOP’s image as the traffic authority in the region” says WJLA GM Bill Lord.

WTOP Program Director Laurie Cantillo adds: “WTOP traffic is everywhere: on the radio, mobile, the Web, Twitter, and now on morning television with our great partners at ABC7.”

Meadows joins WJLA from WTVR Richmond, Va. Prior to that, she was a traffic and news reporter in Hampton Roads, Va., and has seven years of reporting traffic on television and radio.