GSU Faces Backlash over Programming Change at WRAS

A growing number of Georgia State University students and listeners of its radio station are up in arms: this week, GSU announced a two-year deal to change WRAS’s daytime programming.Broadcast Version

As of late Thursday afternoon, nearly 6,000 people had signed a petition on www.change.org to try to stop Georgia Public Broadcasting’s plans to air its own programming on WRAS, also known as Album 88. Several Facebook pages and websites have popped up, and community support for stopping the plan stretched as far as restaurants posting “Save WRAS” on their marquees.