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WABE FM has its first broadcast in September 1948, according to historical documents.
At that time, it wasn’t the kind of programming that WABE listeners have come to know today. Instead of the latest in local, national and international news, there were stories about reading and arithmetic. That’s because when the station first began it was used by the Atlanta Board of Education to help teachers with classroom instruction.
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