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WREK FM ("Wreck") is Georgia Tech's radio station, located at 91.1MHz FM in Atlanta. It is 40kW ERP, and 6.6 kW TPO, making it among the ten highest-power college radio stations in the United States. The antenna is a non-directional, 12-bay Jampro JSCP model and is located on a 300 ft. self-supporting Jampro tower adjacent to the Undergraduate Living Center and Woodruff Hall on Georgia Tech's west campus.
Slogans include "music you don't hear on the radio" and "quality diverse radio".
WREK's studios were located in the annex to the Alexander Memorial Coliseum from 1978 until 2004. That facility was home to WGST radio from 1956 until 1975, when that station's license was sold. Visitors to WREK's Coliseum studios were often startled by its walls, which were covered by thick layers of posters, set lists, and other music memorabilia. WREK's studios relocated to the Student Center Commons (formerly the Georgia Tech Bookstore building) in August 2004.
Programming is student-run and extremely diverse, including everything from heavy metal to hip-hop, and Church of the Subgenius. Locally produced programming includes "Currents of Resistance", produced by the Atlanta Indymedia Center; "Tech Talk", a talk show hosted by and focusing on concerns of Georgia Tech students; "The Cusp", an improvisational comedy show chronicling the adventures of Stimpy the Pirate; and "Live@WREK", a live music show.
Also broadcasts play-by-play coverage of Georgia Tech athletics, including baseball, women's basketball, volleyball, and softball. In fall 2004 agreed to simulcast selected Georgia Tech football and men's basketball games to augment WQXI's diminished nighttime coverage in metro Atlanta.
In December 2002, WREK broadcast the entire 50-disc Merzbox by the Japanese experimental music artist Merzbow. An article in Creative Loafing described the Merzbow Marathon as "what may be the most obscure and counterintuitive move in the history of radio."
Began streaming its broadcast over the Internet on November 7, 1994, making it one of the first Internet radio stations [1] (http://www.wrek.org/wreknet-first.html). The station now streams in MP3 format and features a weeklong archive.
- WREK (http://www.wrek.org)
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