WCLK

WCLK

City of license	Atlanta, Georgia
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding	Jazz 91.9
Slogan	The Jazz of the City
Frequency	91.9 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Format	Jazz
ERP	6,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates	33°44′56″N 84°24′27″W
Callsign meaning	CLarK Atlanta University
Affiliations	NPR
Owner	Clark Atlanta University
Website	www.wclk.com

WCLK FM 91.9 is a radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and serves the core area of metro Atlanta. The station is owned and operated as a public radio station by Clark Atlanta University. The station is also broadcast in HD radio.

The station was granted a construction permit in early 2009 to downgrade its effective radiated power (the maximum in any direction) from 6kW to 2.5kW, however this will change its footprint very little, reducing its range to the north and east by just a few kilometers or miles. Coverage to the south and west will remain the same.

WCLK airs some NPR talk programming not heard on WABE, such as The Takeaway and Tell Me More, due to WABE's mostly classical format where little talk programming is aired on that station aside from their HD channel.

Translators

WCLK has been relayed by two broadcast translators, whose broadcast ranges were entirely within its main broadcast area. Its former six-watt translator W250BC 97.9 in Riverdale was sold for 100,000 dollars to Extreme Media Group in November 2007, then to commercial broadcaster Cumulus Broadcasting in February 2009. It now airs 99X from WNNX FM 100.5 HD Radio channel 2, also owned by Cumulus. WCLK was then relayed by W275BK in Decatur, which was 170 watts on 102.9, and remained owned by Radio Assist Ministries, which owns dozens of translators across the country. In April 2009, that station briefly became "Streetz 102.9", a WWVA-FM 105.7 HD Radio channel, until the person in charge was sued by former employer Radio One. Although translators are prohibited from airing their own programming, both stations operate through a loophole which allows them to do so if it is also simulcast on the primary station's HD Radio channels.

The station still has applications pending from 2003 for five new translator stations: Fayetteville. Stone Mountain, East Point, and Stockbridge on 94.5, and Kennesaw on 98.9.

WCLK collaborated with the City of Atlanta to create the Jazz of the City Atlanta portrait featuring over 100 jazz musicians surrounding Mayor Shirley Franklin in the Atlanta City Hall Atrium. The color photograph by Seve "Obasina" Adigun and Gregory Turner taken in April 2007 mirrors the iconic, classic, black and white image, A Great Day in Harlem 1958 by Art Kane.

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WCLK
• Radio-Locator information on WCLK
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WCLK