WABE (FM)
Public radio station in Atlanta / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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WABE (90.1 MHz) – branded 90.1 FM WABE – is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, and serving the Atlanta metropolitan area. The market's National Public Radio (NPR) member station, WABE carries a general public radio schedule with local hosts Lois Reitzes, Rose Scott and H. Johnson and produces the Peabody Award-winning podcast Buried Truths with Hank Klibanoff.
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Broadcast area | Atlanta metropolitan area |
Frequency | 90.1 MHz (HD Radio) |
Branding | 90.1 FM WABE |
Programming | |
Format | Public radio |
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WABE-TV | |
History | |
First air date | September 13, 1948 (1948-09-13) |
Call sign meaning | "Atlanta Board of Education"[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 3538 |
Class | C0 |
ERP | 100,000 watts |
HAAT | 334.1 meters (1,096 feet) |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°45′32″N 84°20′07″W |
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Webcast | Listen live |
Website | wabe |
The station is owned by Atlanta Public Schools, and licensed to the Atlanta Board of Education. In September 1994, a nonprofit corporation, the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative, Inc., was founded to provide financial, promotional, and volunteer support for WABE (as well as WABE-TV channel 30 and Atlanta Public Schools cable channel 22). WABE's signal reaches practically all of the northwestern and north-central parts of the state. It is the dominant public radio station in metropolitan Atlanta, but starting on June 30, 2014, has been joined during the daytime by Georgia Public Broadcasting's Atlanta feed on 88.5 WRAS-FM. GPB provides public radio programming to most of the rest of the state.