WPBS (AM)

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WPBS, "Spice Radio Atlanta", is an AM radio, Desi music and news broadcaster licensed to the city of Conyers, Georgia in the Atlanta, Georgia radio market. Their marketing describes their programming as follows:

Morning and evening weekdays drive time talk shows with news, weather, and traffic reports. Afternoons and weekends with popular Hindi music, Top 40 hits, Hindi classics, hits from Pakistan, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telegu, Kannada film soundtracks, news, general, entertainment and educational features.

WPBS is considered a Class D AM broadcast facility by the Federal Communications Commission operating with 12,000 Watts of power during the daytime, and 5,000 Watts during critical hours (around sunrise and sunset) using a non-directional antenna. The station must sign-off after local sunset, to protect WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.

The radio station has been the original holder of the WPBS call sign since 1993. It is not related to the Watertown, New York-based PBS member station WPBS-TV (which has paid to license the "WPBS" name), and is not related in any way to NPR or the PBS television network.

Prior to 1993, the station was assigned the call sign of WPBE in 1989, and WTPO in 1986. In September 2003, the station changed operating frequency from its original 1050 kHz to its current 1040 kHz. In May 2005, the station changed its programming format from Gospel ("Praise 1040") to "Planeta X" Spanish talk radio format (which moved from WPBC (AM) at the time in the same Atlanta radio market). In 2008, it changed formats to "Spice Radio Atlanta."

[edit] External links

• Station home page
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WPBS
• Radio Locator Information on WPBS
• Satellite view of WPBS broadcast tower on Wikimapia

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