W275BK
| City | Decatur, Georgia |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Atlanta metro area (central) |
| Branding | Boom 102.9 |
| Slogan | Atlanta's Classic Hip Hop |
| Frequency | 102.9 MHz |
| First air date | May 2007 |
| Format | Classic hip hop |
| ERP | 247 watts |
| HAAT | 312.9 m (1,027 ft) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 143866 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°44′41″N 84°21′36″W / 33.74472°N 84.36000°WCoordinates: 33°44′41″N 84°21′36″W / 33.74472°N 84.36000°W |
| Callsign meaning | (serially assigned) |
| Owner |
Radio One (ROA Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WAMJ, WUMJ, WPZE, WHTA |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | myboom1029.com |
W275BK FM 102.9 is a 160-watt broadcast translator, that has Decatur, Georgia, as its city of license. Recently off-air, it is licensed to cover the central part of metro Atlanta. It currently airs a classic hip hop format as "Boom 102.9", and also broadcasts an HD Radio side-channel of WUMJ FM 97.5.
In 2009, the station was assigned to WWVA-FM 105.7, allowing it to circumvent the prohibition on airing original programming by having it simulcast on an HD Radio channel on WWVA. On April 4, it became hip-hop Streetz 102.9, but went silent a few days later when the person responsible for the new station, the former head of the Radio One Atlanta station group, was sued by Radio One for allegedly using his former position to take the group's intellectual property (including remixes) and violating a non-compete clause.
The translator was started by Radio Assist Ministry and was granted a construction permit in late May 2004 as W223AO on 92.5 MHz. It does not appear to have gone on-air until 2007, when it finally received a broadcast license to cover, and supposedly relayed Georgia Public Broadcasting station WJSP-FM 88.1 (apparently without permission). In August 2008, it changed to W222BE/92.3, and then under an engineering-related special temporary authorization filed the day after it got its license for this, changed a month later to its current callsign and frequency. It was almost immediately sold to Extreme Media Group, which is owned and run by one of the two people previously involved with Radio One. In early 2009, it went on-air relaying WCLK/91.9.
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