McDougald also noted that Public Broadcasting Atlanta, which runs WABE and WPBA-TV, has been able to survive on the TV side with GPB's TV station.

Lucas is a product of Atlanta Public Schools, which owns PBA, a combination TV operation (WPBA-TV), radio station (90.1/WABE-FM) and digital platform (www.pba.org, www.wabe.org) And she has a ...

ATLANTA - Atlanta’s public radio and television station WABE is bracing for nearly $2 million in annual losses following a decision by Congress to rescind billions in previously authorized ...

The Brief from WABE brings you daily news with context from Atlanta's public media outlet and National Public Radio member station. The Brief from WABE is updated daily before 7pm with a look at ...

Each week, WABE's Managing Editor Alex Helmick takes a look at the work from his team of award-winning reporters, producers and hosts. July 26, 2025 • Georgia’s abortion law took effect three ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced the hiring of Bill Nigut to co-host Politically Georgia on NPR affiliate WABE. Nigut will join the existing award-winning team of Greg Bluestein ...

But once we started talking, it was a marvelous conversation. Atlanta: During a WABE fundraising drive, a listener once said, “Every word over the air from Lois Reitzes is a gift to Atlanta.” ...

The WABE’s City Lights host, who has been with the station for 38 years, gets too distracted. “My ear becomes too engaged,” says Reitzes, who studied classical music at Indiana University.

Atlanta's 60th mayor and second Black woman to lead the city, Keisha Lance Bottoms, sat down with WABE 90.1's "Closer Look" host Rose Scott in late May 2021 for an exclusive interview about ...

By Julie Drizin, Former Executive Director |May 26, 2017 Grant support from Healthcare Georgia Foundation has made it possible to launch the first-ever dedicated news desk at WABE, allowing our staff ...

Like many native Atlantans, jazz pianist Joe Alterman has been listening to H. Johnson’s jazz show on WABE for years. “The most exciting thing to me about getting my driver’s license when I ...