WREK Atlanta, 91.1 FM

Our FCC application for a coverage increase has been approved! WREK was issued an official construction permit (PDF) for an upgrade from 40,000 Watts to 100,000 Watts on September 22, 2008.

Our new transmitter gave us half of what we need to complete this upgrade. We have not yet begun the hard work of preparing our tower for, designing, and constructing the new antenna we need, though.

Our 30 year old antenna is certainly due for an upgrade, and now we can improve our coverage in the process! We could be a 75,000 - 100,000 Watt station by Summer 2010, perhaps sooner. The details will take another year to nail down, with tens of thousands of dollars to raise and hundreds more hours of research, regulatory work, and negotiations left for our student engineers and our alumni friends to do. We're working hard to bring more of you the healing energy of quality, diverse programming that is WREK.

Thanks go to alumni Matt Wesolowski, General Manager of WYAB in Jackson, MS, and Thomas Hildebrandt, patent attorney at the local firm Thomas | Kayden, for their assistance with all of the complex regulatory and engineering work required to accomplish this feat.