WAEC (AM)

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WAEC
City of license	Atlanta, Georgia
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding	Love 860
Slogan	Love Is All You Need
Frequency	860 kHz (analog)
First air date	1977
Format	Christian
Power	5000 watts daytime 2,500 watts critical hours 500 watts nighttime
Class	B
Transmitter Coordinates	33.729323° N 84.32201° W
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group
Sister stations	WWWE (AM)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	love860.com

WAEC AM is a local Atlanta area AM broadcasting station (licensed to the city of Atlanta, Georgia) that broadcasts Christian programming. It broadcasts at a frequency of 860 kHz with 5,000 watts of power during the daytime and 500 watts during nighttime hours. During critical hours around sunrise and sunset the power is 2,500 watts. The radio station uses a non-directional antenna during the daytime, and critical hours, and a directional antenna system during nighttime to transmit its signal from its broadcast towers located near the Flat Shoales Road exit of Interstate 20 in Atlanta. WAEC is classified as a Class-B AM broadcast station according to the Federal Communications Commission.

This station has the equipment for broadcasting in the IBOC digital radio mode, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. The station seemed to be testing this capability in 2006 and 2007, but has not turned on the HD Radio system full time to date.

The radio station is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group. Its sister station in the same Atlanta area radio market is WWWE (AM). Of historic note, the station has broadcast programs by Martin Luther King, Sr.

[edit] External links

• Official WAEC "Love 860" Website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WAEC
• Radio Locator Information on WAEC
• Satellite view of WAEC broadcast towers on Wikimapia

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