finance. In 1999, Mega Communications Inc. purchased WZHF from PAR Holdings for $11 million and added the station to its Spanish-language Mega Broadcasting network. Nearly a year later in April 2000, Multicultural Broadcasting (doing business as Way Broadcasting) bought WZHF and Manassas, Virginia station WKDV from Mega in exchange for $24.5 million and New York City station WKDM. WZHF began relaying Chinese-language programming from New York City on July 7, 2000 while Multicultural Broadcasting sought to sell air time. By 2001, WZHF added Spanish- and Vietnamese-language programming. Former WARW morning host Doug Tracht made a brief comeback with a 6 a.m. show in March 2001, nearly two years after being fired from WARW for controversial, racist comments. WZHF began carrying English-language, US-produced Voice of Russia programming in March 2011. In June 2014, WZHF began broadcasting with a construction permit from a tower used by WJFK and WUST in Walker Mill, Maryland. Nearly half a year earlier in December 2013, station owner Way Broadcasting applied to change the community of license to Capitol Heights, Maryland. The reason behind the change was the station's tower location in Falls Church, Virginia, was not renewed after more than two decades. On April 22, 2016, the FCC granted a new class B license to WZHF through October 1, 2019 that modified its city of license to Capitol Heights, Maryland and changed its transmitter power to 9,000 watts in daytime and 1,000 watts at night. From around August 2015 to November 2017, WZHF had a regional Mexican music format branded "Fiesta 1390". Radio Sputnik and FARA registration On November 25, 2017, WZHF began broadcasting Radio Sputnik, the Russian government's international, English-language broadcast network. WZHF fully simulcasts Radio Sputnik, aside from the hourly station identification. In October 2018, in a legal case at Florida's federal court, RM Broadcasting LLC of Jupiter Florida sued the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) over the requirement it should register as a Russian agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). In May 2019, Judge Robin Rosenberg, ruled that the station must register as an agent of the Russian government. Payments made to the station's owners by Rossíya Segódnya make it an agent of the Russian broadcasting organization, according to the ruling. The Justice Department, in a statement, said American citizens "have a right to know if a foreign flag waves behind speech broadcast in the United States." RM Broadcasting, LLC