List of Washington Capitals broadcasters
Monumental Sports Network has carried Capitals games locally since its founding as Home Team Sports in 1984. Monumental Sports Network was known as NBC Sports Washington from 2017 to 2023, and Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic from 2001 through 2017. MNMT's commentators are Joe Beninati, Craig Laughlin, "Inside-the-Glass" reporter Alan May, and rinkside reporter Al Koken.
The Capitals' flagship radio station is WJFK-FM ; commentators are John Walton and Ken Sabourin. The team's radio network consists of stations in Washington, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
Radio
WTOP was the Capitals' first radio home through the 1986–87 season. After nine years on WMAL, the games returned to 1500 AM for the 1996–97 season. Ron Weber was the first announcer, and he never missed a game through his retirement at the end of the 1996–97 season. WJFK-FM began airing postseason games during the 2008 playoffs. 1500 AM, since renamed WFED, remained the flagship station until 2012, when WJFK took over all coverage. WFED continues to broadcast games as a network affiliate. This is primarily to take advantage of its 50,000-watt clear-channel signal, which brings Capitals games to the entire eastern half of North America at night.Weber rejoined current announcers Walton and Sabourin for the first period of Game 4 of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals.
WJFK-FM attracted controversy when it elected to drop the Capitals in the 2016–17 season, leaving the Capitals to air solely on WFED. However, WFED's signal is unusable in some portions of the Washington suburbs at night, since it is directed north-south to protect co-channel KSTP. The Washington Wizards also took priority over the Capitals on WFED in case of a conflict, leading to some games in which the only home broadcast was available via Internet streaming. The team responded to fan complaints by reaching a temporary deal in January 2017 to place the rest of its games on WWDC-HD2, which is available metro-wide to those with HD Radios and has a low-powered analog signal that covers the city itself. The Capitals reached a deal to return to WJFK-FM for the 2017–18 season In 2020 a deal was signed through January 3rd, 2026 allowing WDCH 99.1 -- to be an overflow station when WJFK and WFED are taken by another prioritized event.
| Years | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
| 1974–79 | Ron Weber | Jack Doniger |
| 1979–80, 1981–91 | Ron Weber | - |
| 1980–81 | Ron Weber | Frank Daly |
| 1991–94 | Ron Weber | Shawn Simpson |
| 1994–97 | Ron Weber | Joe Beninati |
| 1997–02 | Steve Kolbe | Craig Laughlin |
| 2002–11 | Steve Kolbe | Ken Sabourin |
| 2011–present | John Walton Grady Whittenburg or Zack Fisch | Ken Sabourin |