WRAS
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| City of license | Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Broadcast area | Atlanta metropolitan area |
| Branding | Album 88 |
| Frequency | 88.5 MHz |
| Format | College Radio |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| Callsign meaning | Radio At Georgia State |
| Owner | Georgia State University |
| Website | www.wras.org |
WRAS FM ("Album 88") is a college radio station in Atlanta with a frequency of 88.5MHz, which has been in operation since 1971. It is owned by Georgia State University and its on-air staff are all students of GSU, with the exception of those who broadcast the University's athletic events for the station. WRAS has the highest power (100,000 watts ERP) of any college student-staffed radio station in the United States. The name "Album 88" dates to the early 1980s when the station played most of the songs from new albums. The station has won many awards from the Atlanta weekly Creative Loafing, as well as the College Music Journal (commonly known as CMJ). The station has over 50 student volunteers who host regular rotation as well as specialty shows. Also many of the non-student envoys to the administration of the school worked at the station in their college days.
Some of the specialty shows at WRAS include: Nippon Music Champ (one of the few Japanese music shows in the southeast), The Georgia Music Show, I Don't Care (punk), Soul Kitchen (funk), Houseworks (house music), Beatscape Lounge (ambient, electronica and nu jazz), Subterranean (drum and bass), Cowtipper's Delight (classic country and alternative country), Dot Dash (post-punk), Postscript (drone music and space rock), We're Not Gonna Take It (Heavy metal music), Psychobilly Freakout (surf rock and greaser rock), Tower of Song (psyche, prog, freakbeat), a large variety of hip hop including the long running shows Rhythm and Vibes (Atlanta's first hip hop show) and Hush Hush (instrumental hip-hop), and much more.[1]
The station is non-commercial, with the only breaks in between songs being song listings, public service announcements, show promos, brief news segments, and community affairs shows.
Though known mostly as a music station, the news department in particular has surged in both popularity and professionalism.
The station is highly regarded throughout the college music industry and underground music community. WRAS was the first station to play music from Outkast. Bob Geldof penned the Boomtown Rats hit song, "I Don't Like Mondays" in the WRAS office when he heard the news report of the schoolyard shooting that the song is based on.
On March 14, 2008 WRAS was temporarily knocked off the air due to an F-2 tornado striking the downtown core. (See 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak)
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[edit] External links
- WRAS Album 88 Website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WRAS
- Radio Locator information on WRAS
- WRAS is at coordinates Coordinates:
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