WRAS 88.5 FMWRAS 88.5 FM

Georgia State students were on the air before they had a frequency of their own, borrowing an unused commercial FM at 103.3 through the late sixties until the owners wanted it back. WRAS signed on at 88.5 on 18 January 1971 with 19,500 watts and an antenna leased on high ground north of the city; the power went to 100,000 in March 1987, and by then the station had been calling itself Album 88 for five years and reached most of North Georgia. Atlanta heard much of that decade's new wave on it before anywhere else.

The city's own rap pioneers got their first radio play on it too, which is roughly the point: student music directors pick the rotation, and it has always run a few years ahead of the commercial stations downtown. Evenings hand the schedule over to one show per obsession — folk, chiptune, math rock, neo-soul, hip-hop, J-pop. Georgia Public Broadcasting took the FM daylight hours in 2014; the students kept the stream.