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| frequency: |
91.1 fm |
| power: |
40,000 watts |
| location: |
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
click for map of general area
click for map of campus location |
| management: |
Student owned and operated |
| first aired: |
March 25th, 1968.
See also: History |
| format: |
Diversified, with 6 distinct formats and 40+ specialty shows.
See also: Shows |
| operating hours: |
24 hours per day -- 365 days per year |
Staff & School-
WREK is operated by Georgia Tech students. Most engineering, management,
and production is undertaken by Tech students, providing a goal-oriented extra
curricular activity which provides valuable learning, social, and cultural
experience. In working together to maintain a 40,000 watt FM station,
students gain insight into organizational functions, the beauty of a wide
range of music and ideas, exposure to an even wider range of Tech students with varying interests and backgrounds, and an understanding of the value of
community service.
WREK's license is held by the Radio Communications Board of Georgia Tech
and WREK is funded primarily through the Student Government Association.
Signal
WREK's signal covers the entire metropolitan Atlanta area.
At 40,000 watts, it dwarfs other similar non-commercial stations
around the country, which are typically running at powers on the
order of 100 to 1500 watts. Pictured at right is a coverage map of 91.1 FM.
The orange contour represents our 1 mV/m interference-free coverage area
according to the Federal Communications Commission. Our primary service area
includes the communities of Atlanta, Decatur, Smyrna, Marietta, East Point,
College Park, Lilburn, Kennesaw, Douglasville, Duluth, Woodstock, Dallas,
Snellville, Lawrenceville, Roswell, Alpharetta, Lithia Springs, Conyers,
Stockbridge, Union City, Fayetteville, Riverdale, Forest Park, McDonough,
Villa Rica, and Peachtree City. We can be received in all or part of Fulton,
DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, Douglas, Clayton, Rockdale, Bartow, Cherokee, Forsyth,
Paulding, Carroll, Fayette, Henry, Newton, Walton, and Coweta counties, which
have a combined population of over 4.3 million (2003 Census estimate).
Since 1993, WREK has also been transmitting worldwide on the Internet,
first using home-grown software, then moving to the then popular (but
proprietary)
RealAudio format, and finally moving to the better MP3 format in early 2001.
We offer both low and high bitrate MP3 streams, and a weeklong archive of
our programming is available.
Since fall 2003, WREK has been available on campus televisions as the
audio of channel 17 on the
Georgia Tech Cable Network.
The Sound-
WREK's programming consists of
dozens of specialty shows produced in-house, syndicated programming, public
affairs broadcasting, and broadly defined 'formats.'
- Almost fifty WREK-hours per week feature WREK specialty shows.
- Around five hours come from syndicated sources.
- The other hundred or so hours each week are formats
including "The Classics" in the early morning; "Just Jazz" in the late
morning; "Blue Plate Special" in the early afternoon, featuring a wide
assortment of music from all over the planet; "Rock, Rhythm, & Roll" during
the rest of the afternoon; "Atmospherics" for late night ambience; the
wildly diverse "Overnight Alternatives;" and the musical globetrotting
of "Weekend Cornucopia."
WREK broadcasts 24 hours a day, every day and maintains a diverse format
including atmospherics, rock, ska, bluegrass, pop,
new wave, grunge, classic rock, reggae, dub, classical, Tech Sports,
symphonic, jazz, hip-hop, blues, folk, world musics, experimental,
electronic, synthesized, industrial, spoken word, zydeco, radio drama,
soul, funk, public affairs, Joltin Jackets Baseball, ambient, TechNews,
punk, Georgia Tech Women's Basketball, and a whole universe more...
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