WABE (FM)

WABE

Atlanta, Georgia United States
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Frequency	90.1 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding	90.1 FM WABE
Programming
Format	Public radio
Subchannels	HD2: Classical HD3: BBC World Service
Affiliations	National Public Radio PRX BBC APM
Ownership
Owner	Atlanta Public Schools (Board of Education, City of Atlanta Government)
Sister stations	WABE-TV
History
First air date	September 13, 1948 (1948-09-13)
Call sign meaning	"Atlanta Board of Education"[1]
Technical information[2]
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 / 33.75889°N 84.33528°W / 33.75889; -84.33528
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	wabe.org

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, serving as the National Public Radio (NPR) member station for the market. Owned by Atlanta Public Schools and licensed to the Atlanta Board of Education, it is a sister outlet to PBS member station WABE-TV (channel 30) and local educational access cable service APS Cable Channel 22. The three outlets share studios on Bismark Road in the Morningside/Lenox Park section of Atlanta; WABE-TV's transmitter is located on New Street Northeast (south of DeKalb Avenue) in the city's Edgewood neighborhood.

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.

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.