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WREK ("Wreck", from the Ramblin' Wreck) is the radio station staffed by the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is located at 91.1 MHz and on channel 17 on the Georgia Tech cable TV network, GTCN. Starting as a 10-watt class D, WREK currently broadcasts a 100,000 Watt (FCC data as of October 8, 2011) ERP signal throughout metropolitan Atlanta, making it among the ten highest-power college radio stations in the United States. In 2007, WREK applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase its effective radiated power to the maximum power of 100,000 watts (from its former 40,000 watts) with a directional antenna pattern designed to avoid interference with specific distant stations (as required). This coverage increase was designed to greatly improve the radio station's coverage to encompass more of the Atlanta metropolitan area. That application was subsequently approved, and the station built out the improved coverage by replacing its antenna system in the fall of 2011. In March 2008, WREK replaced its then 20-year-old transmitter with a brand new unit capable of three times the signal power and providing HD Radio capability. The addition of an HD Radio broadcast has made WREK among the first student-run, student-funded stations in the nation to add digital broadcasting capability. It has also allowed WREK to add a second continuous channel of programming ("WREK HD2") in Fall 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = WREK )〕 ==Programming== WREK slogans include "music you don't hear on the radio" and "quality diverse radio." Programming is student-run and extremely diverse, including everything from heavy metal to world, hip-hop to blues, classical and jazz to industrial and noise, and similarly diverse community programming (''Church of the Subgenius''). Locally produced programming includes ''Tech Talk'', a talk show hosted by and focusing on concerns of Georgia Tech students; the ''Ramblin' Wreck Report'', a Georgia Tech sports talk show hosted by students; ''Destroy All Music'', clatter-improv with pink noise freakouts; ''The Mobius'', an experimental electronic show featuring music and in-studio performances of new and established artists that run the electronic gamut; ''The Electric Boogaloo'', a funksperience; ''Live@WREK'', a live music show; and ''Continental Drift'', Atlanta's longest running international music radio program. WREK also broadcasts play-by-play coverage of Georgia Tech intercollegiate athletics, including baseball, women's basketball, and volleyball. In fall 2004, the station agreed to partner with ISP Sports to simulcast network coverage of selected Georgia Tech football and men's basketball games to augment WQXI's diminished AM nighttime coverage in metro Atlanta. That partnership ended following the 2007-08 season. In December 2002, WREK broadcast the entire 50-disc ''Merzbox'' by the Japanese experimental music artist Merzbow. An article in ''Creative Loafing'' described the Merzbow Marathon as "what may be the most obscure and counterintuitive move in the history of radio." Continuing their tradition of unorthodox radio broadcasts, WREK chose to air the long-running heavy metal show ''WREKage'' for the entire 24 hour broadcast day on June 6, 2006 (6/6/6).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WREKage )〕 Heavy metal was played in chronological order from midnight to midnight. As an extra nod to the mystic number ''666 (number)'', ''Iron Maidens ''The Number of the Beast'' was aired at 6:06 a.m. and p.m. In Fall 2007, the critics of Creative Loafing declared WREK to be the Best Overall Radio Station in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The article describing their reasoning declared WREK to be "strange in a good way. The station’s format is noncommercial and nonconforming. Few stations in the city can compete with WREK’s eclectic playlist".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best of Atlanta 2007 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WREK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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