WAOK

WAOK
Atlanta, Georgia;
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Frequency	1380 kHz
Branding	News & Talk 1380 WAOK
Programming
Language(s)	English
Format	Urban talk radio
Affiliations	CBS News Radio
Ownership
Owner	Audacy, Inc.; (Audacy License, LLC, as Debtor-in-Possession);
Sister stations	WSTR; WVEE; WZGC;
History
First air date	1928; 96 years ago
Former call signs	WRBI (1928–1931); WJTL (1931–1935); WATL (1935–1954);
Call sign meaning	Atlanta OK (former owners of the station)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	63775
Class	B
Power	25,000 watts (day); 4,200 watts (night);
Transmitter coordinates	33°45′36″N 84°28′45″W / 33.76000°N 84.47917°W
Repeater(s)	103.3 WVEE-HD3 (Atlanta)
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Webcast	Listen live (via Audacy)
Website	www.audacy.com/waok

WAOK (1380 AM) is a commercial radio station, owned by Audacy, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. WAOK broadcasts from studios at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta. It is Atlanta's third-oldest continuously licensed broadcast station and the fifth oldest in Georgia.

WAOK is a Class B station. Its transmitter site is on Chalmers Drive, Northwest, in Atlanta, near the Ralph David Abernathy Freeway (Interstate 20).^[2] It operates with a power of 25,000 watts during the daytime, using a non-directional antenna. At night, when AM radio signals travel farther, in order to protect other stations on AM 1380 it reduces power to 4,200 watts and uses a directional antenna.

WAOK airs a talk radio format aimed at the African American community. It has local hosts in morning and afternoon drive time with the syndicated Rev. Al Sharpton Show heard in early afternoons. WAOK is also heard on the HD3 subchannel of sister station 103.3 WVEE.