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WABE-FM

WABE
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City Atlanta, Georgia
Broadcast area Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding 90.1 FM WABE (FM & HD-1)
WABE Classics (on HD-2)
WABE News (on HD-3)
Slogan Where ATL meets NPR
Frequency 90.1 MHz (also on HD Radio)
90.1 HD-2 for Classical music
90.1 HD-3 for News & Talk
First air date September 13, 1948
Format Public radio
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 334.1 metres (1,096 feet)
Class C0 NCE
Facility ID 3538
Transmitter coordinates 33°45′32″N 84°20′07″W / 33.75889°N 84.33528°W / 33.75889; -84.33528Coordinates: 33°45′32″N 84°20′07″W / 33.75889°N 84.33528°W / 33.75889; -84.33528
Callsign meaning Atlanta Board of Education
Affiliations National Public Radio
Public Radio International
American Public Media
Owner Atlanta Public Schools / Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative, Inc.
(Board of Education, City of Atlanta)
Webcast Listen live
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Website www.wabe.org

WABE FM 90.1 is a radio station in Atlanta, Georgia, that is affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Radio International (PRI). WABE's format features mostly classical music, although the station will occasionally play a Beatles tune, a Broadway show tune, a film suite, or a selection from a film such as Star Wars, as long as the piece is in a classical-sounding arrangement. WABE-FM has lately added the short feature Atlanta Sounds (broadcast several times a day) and twice weekly previews of weekend events around the city. Beginning in 2009, its Sunday schedule changed from devoting equal time to news programs and classical music to broadcasting news programs during the daytime and playing classical music on Sunday evenings. It carries the NPR flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, with newscasts interjected periodically.

The station is licensed to the Atlanta Board of Education (hence the "ABE" in the broadcast callsign), although a non-profit umbrella corporation has been established to oversee the station's daily operations. The station's signal reaches practically all of the northwestern and north-central parts of the state. WABE is the dominant public radio station in metropolitan Atlanta; Georgia Public Broadcasting serves most of the remainder of the state with such programs.


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