WRAS

WRAS FM 88.5 is a station in Atlanta with a frequency of 88.5 MHz, which has been in operation since January 18, 1971. It is owned by Georgia State University and its schedule is currently split between public radio programming from Georgia Public Broadcasting (88.5 GPB Atlanta) airing from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. and college radio programming (Album 88, which previously provided the entire WRAS schedule) produced by GSU students with the exception of those who broadcast the university's athletic events for the station (the Georgia State radio network), airing from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. The Album 88 and 88.5 GPB Atlanta formats are both available 24 hours a day on separate internet streams, and Album 88 is available full-time on WRAS 's second HD Radio subchannel.Album 88's first general manager was Richard Belcher, well known to Atlanta TV viewers for his investigative reporting on WAGA-TV 5, and now WSB-TV 2. The "Album 88" name dates back to the late 1970s, and is unusual, as it is still rare for noncommercial stations in North America to use a moniker (other than their own broadcast callsign), the way commercial stations have for decades. It refers to the album-based rotation the format employs: stressing several cuts from each album rather than a single.