W233BF
| City | Atlanta, Georgia |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Atlanta metro area (central) |
| Branding | Streetz 94.5 |
| Slogan | Atlanta's #1 Station In Da Streetz |
| Frequency | 94.5 MHz FM 94.1 MHz HD3 |
| Repeater(s) | 94.5 WFDR (Woodbury) |
| First air date | July 2003 |
| Format | Hip hop |
| ERP | 250 watts |
| HAAT | 325 m (1,066 ft) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 146158 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°44′41″N 84°21′46″W / 33.74472°N 84.36278°WCoordinates: 33°44′41″N 84°21′46″W / 33.74472°N 84.36278°W |
| Callsign meaning | (serially assigned) |
| Owner | Edgewater Broadcasting |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | streetz945.com |
W233BF FM 94.5, known as Streetz 94-5, is a radio station in metro Atlanta, now licensed to serve Atlanta. After a series of moves (previously serving the eastern exurb of Social Circle), the station now transmits from the tall WUPA TV tower east of downtown, just north of Interstate 20. The station broadcasts a hip hop music format, with a heavy emphasis on local artists, and is less mainstream than other similar stations in the format such as WHTA and WVEE.
Although the station is licensed as a "broadcast translator" (a service intended to retransmit analog FM stations to distant or terrain-obstructed areas), it is operating independently under a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) legal fiction that allows such stations to transmit original programming if it is also simulcast on another station's HD Radio digital subchannel — in this case, 94.1 WSTR's HD3 subchannel. (Despite the purchase of two other stations, it is still legally prohibited from retransmitting them since they are out-of-market.) Since legitimately licensed noncommercial LPFM stations cannot do any of these things (have multiple stations, operate commercially, use higher powers and unlimited heights, or afford to rent an "HD" channel or AM station) despite being in the same FCC class D, no community radio stations have gone on-air in or immediately around the city since the 1980s, and two have been forced off-air in the 2000s. "Streetz" was originally on another such station, W275BK FM 102.9, which is also on the same tower. The station's manager was forced in a lawsuit to give up the original station to the owners of the major local station he previously worked for.
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